1 Then he slopped right along and went away, and pretty soon the trees hid him.
2 But by and by, sure enough, I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees.
3 We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long, gray beards.
4 I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them.
5 Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.
6 We went winding in and out amongst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some other way.
7 WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
8 Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.
9 When I come in sight of the log store and the woodpile where the steamboats lands I worked along under the trees and brush till I got to a good place, and then I clumb up into the forks of a cottonwood that was out of reach, and watched.
10 The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the currrent was tearing by them so swift.
11 So we went over to where the canoe was, and while he built a fire in a grassy open place amongst the trees, I fetched meal and bacon and coffee, and coffee-pot and frying-pan, and sugar and tin cups, and the nigger was set back considerable, because he reckoned it was all done with witchcraft.