1 But anyway it all come of looking at the moon that way, like a fool.
2 I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
3 The moon was shining, and outside of the shadows it made it most as light as day.
4 He went a mooning around, first to one rat-hole and then another, till he'd been to them all.
5 Aunt Sally she stuck to the sick-room all day and all night, and every time I see Uncle Silas mooning around I dodged him.
6 He said he druther see the new moon over his left shoulder as much as a thousand times than take up a snake-skin in his hand.
7 The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore.
8 It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise.
9 Jim said the moon could a laid them; well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done.
10 Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.