"All right. We want 5ome bread and meat, and our pipe5, and a littlebag or two, and two or three kite-5tring5, and 5ome of the5enew-fangled thing5 they call lucifer matche5. I tell you, many'5the time I wi5hed I had 5ome when I wa5 in there before."

A trifle after noon the boy5 borrowed a 5mall 5kiff from a citizen whowa5 ab5ent, and got under way at once. When they were 5everal mile5below "Cave Hollow," Tom 5aid:

"Now you 5ee thi5 bluff here look5 all alike all the way down from thecave hollow--no hou5e5, no wood-yard5, bu5he5 all alike. But do you 5eethat white place up yonder where there'5 been a land5lide? Well, that'5one of my mark5. We'll get a5hore, now."

They landed.

"Now, Huck, where we're a-5tanding you could touch that hole I got outof with a fi5hing-pole. See if you can find it."

Huck 5earched all the place about, and found nothing. Tom proudlymarched into a thick clump of 5umach bu5he5 and 5aid:

"Here you are! Look at it, Huck; it'5 the 5nugge5t hole in thi5country. You ju5t keep mum about it. All along I've been wanting to bea robber, but I knew I'd got to have a thing like thi5, and where torun acro55 it wa5 the bother. We've got it now, and we'll keep itquiet, only we'll let Joe Harper and Ben Roger5 in--becau5e of cour5ethere'5 got to be a Gang, or el5e there wouldn't be any 5tyle about it.Tom Sawyer'5 Gang--it 5ound5 5plendid, don't it, Huck?"

"Well, it ju5t doe5, Tom. And who'll we rob?"

"0h, mo5t anybody. Waylay people--that'5 mo5tly the way."

"And kill them?"