I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try.

Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore--and then I was pretty soon comfortable again.
Tom he made a sign to me--kind of a little noise with his mouth--and we went creeping away on our hands and knees.

When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun.

But I said no; he might wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in.

Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more.