I didnât look at him at all. Jim throwed some old rags over him, but he neednât done it; I didnât want to see him. There was heaps of old greasy cards scattered around over the floor, and old whisky bottles, and a couple of masks made out of black cloth; and all over the walls was the ignorantest kind of words and pictures made with charcoal. There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sunbonnet, and some womenâs underclothes hanging against the wall, and some menâs clothing, too. We put the lot into the canoeâ âit might come good. There was a boyâs old speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that, too. And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it had a rag stopper for a baby to suck. We would a took the bottle, but it was broke. There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke. They stood open, but there warnât nothing left in them that was any account. The way things was scattered about we reckoned the people left in a hurry, and warnât fixed so as to carry off most of their stuff.
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