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VITTLES.
stopped talking, and got to thinking. By-and-by Tom says:
"Looky here, Huck, what fools we are, to not think of it before! I bet I know where Jim is."
"No! Where?"
"In that hut down by the ash-hopper. Why, looky here. When we was at dinner, didn't you see a nigger man go in there with some vittles?"
"Yes."
"What did you think the vittles was for?"
"For a dog."
"So'd I. Well, it wasn't for a dog."
"Why?"
"Because part of it was watermelon."
"So it was—I noticed it. Well, it does beat all, that I
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