CHAPTER XVI
ABOUT 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.”
“ Might ! Better say we would ! There’s some lucky days, maybe, but Friday ain’t.”
“ Any fool knows that. I don’t reckon you was the first that found it out, Huck.”
“ We
