"Well, what of it? They'll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger. I
don't know him. But I never see a nigger that wouldn't lie. Shucks!
Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck."
"Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water
was."
"In the daytime?"
"Certainly."
"With his face to the stump?"
"Yes. Least I reckon so."
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"Did he say anything?"
"I don't reckon he did. I don't know."
"Aha! Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool
way as that! Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to go all
by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a
spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump
and jam your hand in and say:
'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water,
swaller these warts,'
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