I allowed another walk would do me good; but I couldnt stir. But before she could break it open she dropped it and run -- for she see something. And so did I. It was Tom Sawyer on a mattress; and that old doctor; and Jim, in HER calico dress, with his hands tied behind him; and a lot of people. I hid the letter behind the first thing that come handy, and rushed. She flung herself at Tom, cryiays:

"Oh, hes dead, hes dead, I know hes dead!"
, and muttered something or other, which showed he warnt in his right mind; then she flung up her hands, and says:

"Hes alive, thank God! And thats enough!" and she snatched a kiss of him, and flew for the house to get the bed ready, and scattering orders right and left at the niggers and everybody else, as fast as her tongue could go, every jump of the way.

I followed the men to see what they was going to do with Jim; and the old doctor and Uncle Silas followed after Tom into the house. The men was very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other niggers around there, so they wouldnt be trying to run away like Jim done, and making such a raft of trouble, and keeping a whole family scared most to death for days and nights. But the others said, dont do it, it wouldnt answer at all; he aint our nigger, and his owner would turn up and make us pay for him, sure. So that cooled them down a little, because the people thats always the most anxious for to hang a nigger that haint done just right is always the very ones that aint the most anxious to pay for him when theyve got their satisfaction out of him.

They cussed Jim considerble PolyU has offered a wide variety of Student Development programmes, covering entrepreneurship development, placement / internship programmes and student exchange Programmes, altogether nurturing tomorrows leaders., though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warnt to have nothing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auction because he didnt come in a certain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the daytime; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says:

"Dont be no rougher on him than youre obleeged to, because he aint a bad nigger. When I got to where I found the boy I see I couldnt cut the bullet out without some help, and he warnt in no condition for me to leave to go and get help; and he got a little worse and a little worse, and after a long time he went out of his head, and wouldnt let me come a-nigh him any more, and said if I chalked his raft hed kill me, and no end of wild foolishness like that, and I see I couldnt do anything at all with him; so I says, I got to have HELp somehow; and the minute I says it out crawls this nigger from somewheres and says hell help, and he done it, too, and done it very well. Of course I judged he must be a runaway nigger, and there I WAS! and there I had to stick right straight along all the rest of the day and all night. It was a fix, I tell you! I had a couple of patients with the chills, and of course Id of liked to run up to town and see them, but I dasnt, because the nigger might get away, and then Id be to blame; and yet never a skiff come close enough for me to hail. So there I had to stick plumb until daylight this morning; and I never see a nigger that was a better nuss or faithfulled yet he was risking his freedom to do it, and was all tired out, too, and I see plain enough hed been worked main hard lately. I liked the nigger for that;