1 There was a hymn book, and a lot of other books.
2 There was some books, too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table.
3 It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study.
4 We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a general good time.
5 And there ain't no other way, that ever I heard of, and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things.
6 Then she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody.
7 BY and by, when we got up, we turned over the truck the gang had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars.