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Brave Tom

CHAPTER I
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Guess he hasn't come down yet.
"Then the tiger come for _me_! "I seen him make a spring, and ducked my head.

He went clean over, and landed among the women and children, and begun chawing 'em up.

Why, Tom, the sound of their bones cracking and snapping in his jaws was like the fire-crackers going off on the Fourth of July.

Them as warn't swallered or killed scattered right and left, and begun climbing trees, jumping through winders, and fastening the doors.

All this time the tiger kept on chawing.
He never took more than one bite at a man!" "Did you see him kill any one ?" asked the scared Tom, somewhat confused by the tremendous narrative of his friend.
"Did I see him kill any one?
I should say I did.


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