Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 554
it, and says— They re bugs.No—hold on; they— why, I believethey re men. Yes,its men — men andcamels, both. Theyare hauling a longladder up onto theSphinxs back—nowaint that odd? Andnow they re tryingto lean it up a —there s some morepuffs of smoke —it s guns ! Huck,they re after Jim ! We clapped… … BEEN STANDING A SIEGE A LONG TI.ME. let go all holts and fell. We soared up andfound him laying on top of the head panting 542 TOM SAWYER ABROAD. [April, and most tuckered out, partly from howlingfor help and partly from scare. He had beenstanding a siege a long time — a week, he said,but it war nt…
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