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`` I 'm feelin ' so good I could fly ef I had to , '' he replied . `` Jest you jump on , Henry , an ' fur every jump you take you 'll find me only one jump behind you ! '' Henry , without further ado , sprang from one stone to another , and behind him , stone for stone , came the shiftless one . It was now past midnight , and the moon was obscured . The keenest eyes twenty yards away could not have seen the two dusky figures as they went by leaps into the very heart of the great , black swamp . They reached the solid ground , and then the hut . `` Here , Sol , '' said Henry , `` is my house , and yours , also , and soon , I hope , to be that of Paul , Tom , and Jim , too . ''