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noon the next day the boys arrived at the dead tree; they had come for their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was measurably so, also—but suddenly said—
"Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?"
Tom mentally ran over the days of the week, and then quickly lifted his eyes with a startled look in
them—
"My! I never once thought of
it, Huck!"
" Well I didn't neither, but all at once it popped onto me that it was Friday." " Blame it, a body can't be too careful, Huck. We might a got into an awful scrape, tackling such a thing on a Friday."
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