![]() ![]() So then we was pretty scared, and made up an agreement that we wouldn't have nothing in the world to do with such actions, and if we ever got the least show we would give them the cold shake, and clear out and leave them behind. We turned it over and over, and at last we made up our minds they was going to break into somebody's house or store, or was going into the counterfeit-money business, or something. We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft, as she floated along, thinking, and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate.Īnd at last they took a change, and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time. They tackled missionarying, and mesmerizering, and doctoring, and telling fortunes, and a little of everything but they couldn't seem to have no luck. Another time they tried a go at yellocution but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a solid good cussing and made them skip out. Then in another village they started a dancing school but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does so the first prance they made, the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town. So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again.įirst they done a lecture on temperance but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. It was the first I ever see it growing, and it made the woods look solemn and dismal. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards. We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. We dasn't stop again at any town, for days and days kept right along down the river.
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