arned the money--yes, and you've earned the deepest and most
sincerest thanks of this community besides, for lifting a wronged and
innocent family out of ruin and shame, and saving a good and honorable
man from a felon's death, and for exposing to infamy and the punishment
of the law a cruel and odious scoundrel and his miserable creatures!"

Well, sir, if there'd been a brass band to bust out some music, then, it
would 'a' been just the perfectest thing I ever see, and Tom Sawyer he
said the same.

Then the sheriff he nabbed Brace Dunlap and his crowd, and by and by
next month the judge had them up for trial and jailed the whole lot. And
everybody crowded back to Uncle Silas's little old church, and was ever
so loving and kind to him and the family and couldn't do enough for
them; and Uncle Silas he preached them the blamedest jumbledest idiotic
sermons you ever struck, and would tangle you up so you couldn't find
your way home in daylight; but the people never let on but what they
thought it was the clearest and brightest and elegantest sermons that
ever was; and they would set there and cry, for love and pity; but, by
George, they give me the jim-jams and the fan-tods and caked up what
brains I had, and turned them solid; but by and by they loved the old
man's intellects back into him again, and he was as sound in his skull
as ever he was, which ain't no flattery, I reckon. And so the whole
family was as happy as birds, and nobody could be gratefuler and
lovinger than what they was to Tom Sawyer; and the same to me, though
I hadn't done nothing. And when the two thousand dollars come, Tom give
half of it to me, and never told anybody so, which didn't surprise me,
because I knowed him.

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