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“Mars Sid, you’ll say I’s a fool, but if I didn’t b’lieve I see most a million dogs, er devils, er some’n, I wisht I may die right heah in dese tracks.  I did, mos’ sholy.  Mars Sid, I felt um—­I felt um, sah; dey was all over me.  Dad fetch it, I jis’ wisht I could git my han’s on one er dem witches jis’ wunst—­on’y jis’ wunst—­it’s all I’d ast.  But mos’ly I wisht dey’d lemme ’lone, I does.”

Tom says: 

“Well, I tell you what I think.  What makes them come here just at this runaway nigger’s breakfast-time?  It’s because they’re hungry; that’s the reason.  You make them a witch pie; that’s the thing for you to do.”

“But my lan’, Mars Sid, how’s I gwyne to make ‘m a witch pie?  I doan’ know how to make it.  I hain’t ever hearn er sich a thing b’fo’.”

“Well, then, I’ll have to make it myself.”

“Will you do it, honey?—­will you?  I’ll wusshup de groun’ und’ yo’ foot, I will!”

“All right, I’ll do it, seeing it’s you, and you’ve been good to us and showed us the runaway nigger.  But you got to be mighty careful.  When we come around, you turn your back; and then whatever we’ve put in the pan, don’t you let on you see it at all.  And don’t you look when Jim unloads the pan—­something might happen, I don’t know what.  And above all, don’t you handle the witch-things.”

“HANNEL ‘m, Mars Sid?  What is you a-talkin’ ‘bout?  I wouldn’ lay de weight er my finger on um, not f’r ten hund’d thous’n billion dollars, I wouldn’t.”

CHAPTER XXXVII.

That was all fixed.  So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could, to bake the pie in, and took it down cellar and stole it full of flour and started for breakfast, and found a couple of shingle-nails that Tom said would be handy for a prisoner to scrabble his name and sorrows on the dungeon walls with, and dropped one of them in Aunt Sally’s apron-pocket which was hanging on a chair, and t’other we stuck in the band of Uncle Silas’s hat, which was on the bureau, because we heard the children say their pa and ma was going to the runaway nigger’s house this morning, and then went to breakfast, and Tom dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas’s coat-pocket, and Aunt Sally wasn’t come yet, so we had to wait a little while.

And when she come she was hot and red and cross, and couldn’t hardly wait for the blessing; and then she went to sluicing out coffee with one hand and cracking the handiest child’s head with her thimble with the other, and says: 

“I’ve hunted high and I’ve hunted low, and it does beat all what has become of your other shirt.”

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