He said it was all done by enchantment.

He said there was hundreds of soldiers there, and elephants and treasure, and so on, but we had enemies which he called magicians; and they had turned the whole thing into an infant Sunday-school, just out of spite.

I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians.

Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.
"Why," said he, "a magician could call up a lot of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing before you could say Jack Robinson.

They are as tall as a tree and as big around as a church." "Well," I says, "s'pose we got some genies to help US--can't we lick the other crowd then ?" "How you going to get them ?" "I don't know.