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Off  Chapter XXXIX  Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters   We got a
splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and
caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a
hornet's nest, but we didn't. The family was at home. We didn't
give it right up, but stayed with them as long as we could;
because we allowed we'd tire them out or they'd got to tire us
out, and they done it. Then we got allycumpain and rubbed on the
places, and was pretty near all right again, but couldn't set
down convenient. And so we went for the snakes, and grabbed a
couple of dozen garters and house-snakes, and put them in a bag,
and put it in our room, and by that time it was supper-time, and
a rattling good honest day's work: and hungry? oh, no, I reckon
not! And there warn't a blessed snake up there when we went
back—we didn't half tie the sack, and they worked out somehow,
and left. But it didn't matter much, because they was still on
the premises somewheres.