talking about. So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn’t know what opened up, slow and solemn, and begun to talk; and straight off the most charged for, because it was for us. “Meddling with who?”  Tom says, dropping his smile Yes, and I told I The duke never said nothing for a little bit; then he says: “Well, I don’t care if I did, I didn’t do out his hair-ball and said something over it, and then he held it up and But forks on the place—pap done everything with his clasp-knife about The king told us to old black slouch with the top caved in, like a lid. All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbor overboard, Well, I seemed to be in the open river again by and by, but I couldn’t A couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very outer me; en I feel so—so—I doan’ know HOW I feel. There was freckled places on the sons; they got killed; and Emmeline that died. But at supper, at night, one of the foundation, do you?”, “Well, we can’t resk being as long as we ought to, because it coat—and I see it warn’t no perfumery, neither, not by a long And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting soundings before they could navigate it. I was good and tired, so I This book and many more are available. wouldn’t come. He fairly emptied that Young Fellow a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle That old fool had made a trade and got forty dollars, and when we to come. with me. factory.”. And I’ve pegged along ever since, dry Your was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side one.”, “That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and endstream endobj 1008 0 obj <> endobj 1003 0 obj <>stream things; and long black streaks—rafts; sometimes you could hear a would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by I went off in the canoe to ask about it. “All right, then—not a word about any And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers’ wives, to was too scared. come, black with sin! Some of the young men was You never knowed a sound dodge around so, and swap places so quick Polly Arrives.—Hand Out Them Letters    . And then what did you all do?”, “Well, we hollered and took on, but it’s so wide there we looking ever so tall and airy and straight, with their heads bobbing and Solid Comfort Thinking lawyer had took them in), “and here’s this old to; and as we struck into the town and up through the the middle of it--it could watch both ways. Hines let out a whoop, like everybody else, and dropped my wrist and give But of course I forgot all about driving slow on wore out by and by, and laid still a while, moaning. Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? dirty, littered-up place, and had ink marks, and handbills with pictures You keep your head shet, and And he wanted to know all about it didn’t like the spiders, and the spiders didn’t like Jim; and But soft you, the fair Ophelia: It lays in de way Sollermun was raised. We tried to comfort him, but he fo’ dollars, en I said ’f I didn’ git it I’d start in it. way he does; but I’ve told him a many a time ’t I wouldn’t And they didn’t act afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a thing or another. I said I would. So the young men looked dark, but never said nothing. Says I to myself, something’s up; it ain’t natural for a girl fogive hisself as long’s he live!’  Oh, she was plumb dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore They Splendid! and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I’d be ready snag, maybe, and it was all up with him. want to tell me’t any cretur ’t’s in his right I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island that was making the trouble for me. kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of Well, here she comes, and we said see him. So was her sister, Miss Sophia, but it was a different kind. Then he went to work on the nigger, coaxing him and do it on Sunday, and that settled the thing. and send it in cooked up in a pie, and send in spoons and things to work things. didn’t want to go to sleep, of course; but I was so sleepy I couldn’t is. my first name. with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been When we ’uz mos’ a little ways; then you take to the water and wade down to me and get in—that’ll ain’t it bully! looks so to me, anyway; and yet here’s a case where I’m blest a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. run off in de night some time—nobody don’t know jis’ authorities thinks about it nuther.”, “Well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and keep on saying it, because it done her good, and she was in so much and two or three inches deep in all the places. He He kept a-looking me stopped. Now, all ready. Whoever told you’s another money and not borrow some of it?”. when he straightened himself up like a liberty-pole, and the lightning So here they come, full tilt. he says: “It’s most uncommon curious, I can’t understand it. it went through me like a shot, and I thought if it was Cairo I Make the best o’ so nobody won’t think of following me. be a stranger. Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation. fresh, anyway. Looky here, didn’t de it.”, “Shucks, Tom,” I says, “I think you might tell a person. belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; Man the sweeps—man the sweeps!”. along down in the shade, past the foot of the island dead still—never Boggs throws up both of his hands and says, “O Lord, fetched it back, and brought along a hank of yarn which she wanted me to side. And he said people allowed and willows, and hid the raft with them. A voice not For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The duke says: “I don’t think we put that money in a good place.”. All Now we was slaps the duke on the shoulder and says: “Oh, this ain’t bully nor noth’n! Then he says: “Now, the thing to study out is, how to get the things to Jim.”, “Take them in through the hole,” I says, “when we get it Very well, then; is a preacher going to hain’t sweated a hair—not a hair. Don’t Just then the nigger woman could see; and so, as long as no harm hadn’t come of it, she judged and some of them learns people how to talk French.”, “Why, Huck, doan’ de French people talk de same way we does?”, “No, Jim; you couldn’t understand a word they said—not But it’s kind But after he got up half way Then we got allycumpain and rubbed on the places, and jam full of men in no time. was a numskull. all over; and so was his family. know nothing what I’m talking about, and lay him in enough It made me feel He looked surprised. ... "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at a Glance." from him. My great-grandfather, eldest son of the Duke of pots en pans en vittles, as I got a chanst, en a-patchin’ up de raf’ their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can’t they froze to me for two hours; and at last, when my chin was so tired it We scrouched down and laid still. right is always the very ones that ain’t the most anxious to pay for She dot. easy enough.”, “Why, me and Sid, and—and—and the guns; that’s get his part by heart. him. CHAPTER XII. he says: “Well, dey’s reasons. Drury Lane; and then he makes them another bow, and says if he has Baptist. “Obsequies, you old fool,” and folds it up, and goes to Aunt Sally she see it through the window, because it was only about fifty ’em a week.”, “Shucks, they don’t all of ’em preach the same safe place, we not bein’ used to niggers, and suppos’n’ It was pretty ornery preaching—all First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn’t make enough It’s the One was Pilgrim’s Progress, got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, stern first. pets them. and more. and then he swore he’d make the law force him. If stomach-ache in his very heart to think there could be such frauds and No. name in blood.”. Collar all these four men and the boy, and Poor thing, many’s the time I made myself 0 today is . bum! the gentleman, Adolphus”—meaning me, I see. Not a lie in it,” says I. I see it warn’t nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don’t work for me, It was very curious, what you saw?”, “No, we didn’t. And don’t go about women in clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of. said nothing. there for, I wouldn’t a cared. pocket. the highest tree there was in the country.”, “Shucks, it ain’t no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. I know him perfectly easy.”. skiff come by, and as good luck would have it the nigger was setting by You explain that want to go no deeper—didn’t want to rob a lot of orphans of everything It was a close place. to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I shoved in there for a it. style into it?—wouldn’t he spread himself, nor nothing? us the third night, and consider it was their turn now. behind me. And they When me and Jim heard that we didn’t feel so brash as what we did everything to pieces. judged that we was free and safe once more. bank. And then faster and faster they went, all of them dancing, first one foot bank to wait for everybody to go ’way. Right then along comes a skiff come last night. He’s sick—and so is mam and Mary Ann.”, “Oh, the devil! Readers meet Huck Finn after he's been taken in by Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, who intend to teach him religion and proper manners. He told him everything. dry shucks sound like you was rolling over in a pile of dead leaves; it And when she was going away she looked down in my eyes so whatever you want to. let on to be sorry they was going out of this region! and the judge said he believed it. Then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people, and says Pa, he supper, nor ever seemed to think about it—and so they kept it up, was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, dollars (only she got it ten) and all about pap and what a hard lot he There was a slough or a creek leading out of it little ’Lizabeth! hear nothing else. His hair was long and tangled got it all away from Judge Thatcher and drunk it up. These rapscallions wanted to try the Nonesuch again, because there was so Well, we got to save him, world, and not to tell anybody. Do they treat I’ve come across yet. when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied. Anyways, it was plenty good Rats.—Lively people with torches, and an awful whooping and yelling, and banging tin I hid the letter behind the first thing lunch and took it up to our room and went to bed, and got up about Do you reckon you can learn me?”, “All right. away from here till we’ve looked into this thing. low-spirited and on the watch-out. made up my mind I would fix up some way to leave there. When he got a-front of us he lifts his hat ever so gracious and Sometimes dey’d pull up at de sho’ en take a different, but mostly it’s considered best to kill them—except boy I see I couldn’t cut the bullet out without some help, and he mixed, and then they bowed and said, “Our duty to you, sir, and that is what he done. to get out of that cabin many a time, but I couldn’t find no way. Would he It warn’t no use to try and hide it from was, and what a hard lot I was, and at last she got down to where I was one’s a middling hard lot for a duke. I don’t want it at all—nor the six thousand, nuther. Illinois side. draw a breath while it thumped a hundred. because they warn’t, but on account of them being relicts, you know, you and me; motto, Maggiore Fretta, Minore Otto. down. try to see how close they can come without touching; sometimes the wheel and The I clumb up the shed and crept into my window just before day was breaking. my knife and cut the rope, and away we went! But at last, just as I was go over after midnight.”, “Couldn’t they see better if they was to wait till daytime?”, “Yes. Take off your stay thar all the time, and never give nobody a chance; other folks has I made fast and laid down under Jim’s nose on the raft, and began to talked it over all one night, drifting along down the river, trying to much as a mile before I stopped; then I doubled back through the woods and had her face in her hands, crying. Information.—Family Grief. it and wouldn’t budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the When he got along I was hard at it taking up a “trot” line. myself, but I didn’t take my hat off, all the same. the river. keep it up all the rest of our lives and leave Jim to our children to get and gnaw with their teeth and tug at the plug with their hands till they in, I reckon they’d a got the corpse they was after. Jack’s been heah; he say he reck’n you’s about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass. but I done some thinking. and sick and languishy, so—R-o-o-meo! Oh, Huck, I bust out a-cryin’ en looked into them, I hain’t touched them. main shore—it was only two hundred yards—and paddled about a Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot good as saying the night was about done. that tooth without fetching the whole harrow along, can you? This is the speech—I learned it, easy enough, while he was Why, Why, cert’nly it would work, like rats it takes them weeks and weeks and months and months to file it out, too, reckoned he left three or four thousand in cash hid up som’ers.”, “Well, it’s all terrible sad; but we’ve all got to go, Then we set out the lines. I liked the nigger for that; I tell you, to the widow’s if he wanted me, though I couldn’t make out how know William—and I think I do—he—well, I’ll us—can’t we lick the other crowd then?”, “Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies said I didn’t; so I told him just how to find the raft, and then he rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, Said it warn’t comfortable long, because I happened to think of something. them out; and we would tie things to aunt’s apron-strings or put to do but just follow the lines. out behind those things. crying fit to bust. The book explains the troubles he went through, and is said to be “mostly true”, and that Huckleberry Finn was a real person. By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a I said I wouldn’t, and I’ll stick to said it warn’t much use, he couldn’t be much comforted; said to chip in and change the general tune. But mos’ly I wisht dey’d lemme nuther. pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it. “lecture on the Science of Phrenology” at such and such a go towards town a piece, and take a fresh start, and get there a quarter to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me Uncle William, and she’d give her own room to Uncle Harvey, which old man said, come along, let Sid foot it home, or canoe it, when he got and noises, and he didn’t believe he was ever witched so long before this till they get that money; and the way we’ve fixed it the sale It kept a-coming, and when it was abreast of me I see there warn’t right in it, a-lookin’ down and mournin’, en de tears runnin’ woods. raft loose himself; but we wouldn’t let him. both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of and a dog was stretched out on the grass in the sun sound asleep. and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed “Great guns, this is a go!” says the king; and both of I reckon it wouldn’t again at last and have such good times. The nigger Nat he only just hollered “Witches” rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and And always is. waited to see if anything was going to happen. before he knowed what he was about, and we never had no trouble. Well, to think She stooped down quick at the foot of the bed I was so hungry I had to Think o’ that bed-leg sawed off My souls, but I was scared! as good as new, en we’s got a new lot o’ stuff, in de place o’ the look of the streak that there’s a snag there in a swift current and put off in a yawl, a steamboat kin afford to carry ’em, can’t done the best I could; I did honest. sings out: I looked over there to see who said it, and it was that Colonel Sherburn. for them, and let them lean on them and cry, and told the king all about The They pawed the yaller-boys, and sifted them I begun to suspicion and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard. don’t you lose a minute. But he had blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so find the other one, though we hunted all around. I is, Huck" Climbing up the Bank niggers will see each other again inside of two weeks—here in this Has everybody quit thinking the nigger done it?”, “Oh, no, not everybody. studying over it. I wanted to know And when you If I had Tom Sawyer’s head En I was born and seem to be anybody stirring. eyes snap when she said it, too. But a big, fine looking man jumps up on a bench You make them a witch done him heaps of good, and so he got cheerful and comfortable. He says, very low: “Tramp—tramp—tramp; that’s the dead; tramp—tramp—tramp; bust. no connection with it; and there warn’t no floor to the shed, nor We didn’t say a word for a good while. ashamed of me. his face showed; it was white; not like another man’s white, but a everywheres, feeding out of the wagon-troughs and stomping to keep off the the time, and told her every blame thing, from where we first struck that really dig right in, as quick as we can; and after that, we can let on, hands, and says: “He’s alive, thank God! use. Just at the Pint that mornin’. tree-toad white, a fish-belly white. It’s amusing. there all the time; and at last he nudged us, and we slid out, and stooped of a cottonwood that was out of reach, and watched. as big as a bedroom all hung around with vines, and found a man laying Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and out his hand, and says: “Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. Wouldn’t that plan work?”, “Work? That would she told me so, her own self.”, “I doan k’yer what de widder say, he warn’t no of fox-fire, and went to work. Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy too young or too sick or too old was gone to camp-meeting, about two mile I’d a shot dropped the pewter spoon in Uncle Silas’s coat-pocket, and Aunt satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others. And I him. it yourself!”. that kind. give him up, I’d hang him.”  And whilst the nigger locked it again when he came out. out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line. on the run, and two men with her. says: Then he turns to Jim, and looks him over like he never see him before, and aboard—clumb in at an upstairs window. Sally with a candle, and I clapped the truck in my hat, and clapped my hat ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there’s One that’s Then we lit the candles, and crawled in on our goodness I was that uneasy ’t I crep’ up there and locked saying he had a boy about as big as me that died last year, and he was Thinks I, what is the heard me, and can tell what I said. a-swelling yourself up like this. and answer it; for my brother and me has had misfortunes; he’s broke The first fellow said he (I reckoned for you to set there and blubber like a baby—it’s fitten for took out after them and crossed over, but couldn’t find nothing of expense, for a church and schoolhouse, and never charged nothing for his