“So he dozed off, pretty soon. By-and-by I got the old split bottom chair and clumb up, as easy as I could, not to make any noise, and got down the gun. I slipped the ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, and then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir. And how slow and still the time did drag along.”

—from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain