UNCLE SILAS.
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dig out for the island, right off. So away I shoved, and turned the corner, and nearly rammed my head into Uncle Silas's stomach! He says:
"Why, Tom! Where you been, all this time, you rascal?"
"I hain't been nowheres," I says, only just hunting for the runaway nigger—me and Sid."
UNCLE SILAS IN DANGER.
"Why, where ever did you go?" he says. "Your aunt's been mighty uneasy."
"She needn't," I says, "because we was all right. We followed the men and the dogs, but they outrun us, and we
