Some thought it would be good to kill the families of boys that told the secrets. deed she has. He said his father laid mighty sick once, and some of them catched a bird, and his old granny said his father would die, and he did. I wanted an axe, but there wasnt any, only the one out at the woodpile, and I knowed why I was going to leave that. ; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was grand to see. So I didnt think much of it. When we got there there warnt nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly dead and still, like Sunday. Aunt Sally was a good deal uneasy; but Uncle Silas he said there warnt no occasion to beboys will be boys, he said, and youll see this one turn up in the morning all sound and right. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there aint a man in that town thats got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed canethe awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the State. But never mindlet it go. I tuck out en shin down de hill, en spec to steal a skift long de sho somers bove de town, but dey wuz people a-stirring yit, so I hid in de ole tumble-down cooper-shop on de bank to wait for everybody to go way. He seemed to have something on his mind. He went a mooning around, first to one rat-hole and then another, till hed been to them all. Then we went to the nigger cabins, and while I got Nats notice off, Tom shoved a piece of candlestick into the middle of a corn-pone that was in Jims pan, and we went along with Nat to see how it would work, and it just worked noble; when Jim bit into it it most mashed all his teeth out; and there warnt ever anything could a worked better. When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar. We shant rob em of nothing at all but jest this money. But I dasnt go fur, or shed a sent for me. We can just have booming timesthey dont have no school now. They was different from any pictures I ever see beforeblacker, mostly, than is common. So I went to studying it out. I started out, after breakfast, feeling worried and shaky, and wondering where it was going to fall on me, and what it was going to be. Boggs rode up before the biggest store in town, and bent his head down so he could see under the curtain of the awning and yells: Come out here, Sherburn! If I had capital and a theater, I wouldnt want a better lay-out than thatand here weve gone and sold em for a song. I begun to suspicion something. I didnt wait for no breakfastI warnt hungry., Old man, said the young one, I reckon we might double-team it together; what do you think?, I aint undisposed. And how slow and still the time did drag along. So he said, now for the grand bulge! When he got a-front of us he lifts his hat ever so gracious and dainty, like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it and he didnt want to disturb them, and says: Mr. So I says: But Jim was dead against it at first. So the duke said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and hed cipher out some way to get around it. If I had a yaller dog that didnt know no more than a persons conscience does I would pison him. I am: By creating an account on LiveJournal, you agree to our User Agreement. A couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very friendly. Some of them gets on the police, 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 couldnt understand a word they saidnot a single word., Well, now, I be ding-busted! I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river, because pretty soon I would be passing the ferry landing, and people might see me and hail me. He said Tom Sawyer couldnt get up no better plan than what I had. Why, haint you been talking about my coming back, and all that stuff, as if Id been gone away?, HuckHuck Finn, you look me in de eye; look me in de eye. She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come. Then Mary Jane she took another inning, and went in sweet and lovely againwhich was her way; but when she got done there warnt hardly anything left o poor Hare-lip. Well, I couldnt have it that way; it wouldnt do at all. If I had Tom Sawyers head I wouldnt trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of. It's easy to use, no lengthy sign-ups, and 100% free! The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way. It sounds like flattery, but it aint no flattery. The duke never said nothing for a little bit; then he says: Well, I dont care if I did, I didnt do it, anyway. When Jim called me to take the watch at four in the morning, he says: Huck, does you reckn we gwyne to run acrost any mo kings on dis trip?, Well, says he, dats all right, den. Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. But I didnt do it pretty good, and when I got done I see she warnt satisfied. Why, what in the nation do you mean? This eBook is the result of a collaborative effort by MPowered and its community of Avid Readers.. So the thing was working very well, Tom said; he said he never see a thing work more satisfactory. Put it on the floor behind the front door. Come along.. He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun. My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, Let up on meit aint too late yetIll paddle ashore at the first light and tell. I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off. It uz planned beautiful, en it uz done beautiful; en dey aint nobody kin git up a plan dats mo mixed-up en splendid den what dat one wuz.. Anybody would., What was the trouble about, Buck?land?, Well, who done the shooting? But you got to play music to them. By and by I heard the king and the duke come up; so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen. I had wore the ground a good deal crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many things. Here, Ill put a twenty-dollar gold piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by. He only just looked scornful, and said something about nobody ever heard of such an idiotic idea, and then he went to studying. I laid dah under de shavins all day. But I said I didnt; so I told him just how to find the raft, and then he started. That young girl screamed out and comes rushing, and down she throws herself on her father, crying, and saying, Oh, hes killed him, hes killed him! The crowd closed up around them, and shouldered and jammed one another, with their necks stretched, trying to see, and people on the inside trying to shove them back and shouting, Back, back! He says:Aint they no Shepherdsons around?, Well, he says, if theyd a ben some, I reckon Id a got one., Why, Buck, they might have scalped us all, youve been so slow in coming., Well, nobody come after me, and it aint right Im always kept down; I dont get no show., Never mind, Buck, my boy, says the old man, youll have show enough, all in good time, dont you fret about that. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you dont want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed aint ever forgot. No; the way all the best authorities does is to saw the bed-leg in two, and leave it just so, and swallow the sawdust, so it cant be found, and put some dirt and grease around the sawed place so the very keenest seneskal cant see no sign of its being sawed, and thinks the bed-leg is perfectly sound. Cant you think of no way?, Yes, I says, but I reckon it aint regular. Howd they act?, They didnt do nothing. I says: Oh, you neednt be afeard, sir, she carried the three of us easy enough., Why, me and Sid, andandand the guns; thats what I mean.. I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan. Jim was gone! Its the beatenest thing I ever struck. We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it. Ill play a joke on him. Whats a bar sinister?, Oh, I dont know. It was so long ago., Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they dont know now what the row was about in the first place., Yes; right smart chance of funerals. Its jest a small, thin, blue arrowthats what it is; and if you dont look clost, you cant see it. A nigger rousted me out this mornin, and told me the people was getherin on the quiet with their dogs and horses, and theyd be along pretty soon and give me bout half an hours start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me theyd tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I stood on the bank and looked out over the river. A little smoke couldnt be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. Dey ain no sense in it., Looky here, Jim; does a cat talk like we do?, Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?, Its natural and right for em to talk different from each other, aint it?, And aint it natural and right for a cat and a cow to talk different from us?, Well, then, why aint it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us? Hes the best naturedest old fool in Arkansawnever hurt nobody, drunk nor sober.. I tole you I got a hairy breas, en whats de sign un it; en I tole you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich agin; en its come true; en heah she is! Then the people begun to holler at him and make fun of him, and that made him mad, and he begun to rip and tear; so that stirred up the people, and a lot of men begun to pile down off of the benches and swarm towards the ring, saying, Knock him down! Jimmy (thats one of the children) run and tell Lize to put on another plate for dinner.. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft dont. We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five foot along the middle of the bottom log. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadnt no objections, long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warnt no use to tell Jim, so I didnt tell him. I could hear him through the blanket. De men uz all way yonder in de middle, whah de lantern wuz. I sat down there on a log, and looked out through the leaves. So Jim he was sorry, and said he wouldnt behave so no more, and then me and Tom shoved for bed. And when she come she was hot and red and cross, and couldnt hardly wait for the blessing; and then she went to sluicing out coffee with one hand and cracking the handiest childs head with her thimble with the other, and says: Ive hunted high and Ive hunted low, and it does beat all what has become of your other shirt.. Well, blamed if the king didnt bill the house and the niggers and all the property for auction straight offsale two days after the funeral; but anybody could buy private beforehand if they wanted to. She says, Tell them to give Uncle Harvey and William my love and a kiss, and say Ive run over the river to see Mr.Mr.what is the name of that rich family your uncle Peter used to think so much of?I mean the one that, Why, you must mean the Apthorps, aint it?, Of course; bother them kind of names, a body cant ever seem to remember them, half the time, somehow. But go ahead, I aint got nothing to say.. Here a captive heart busted. Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snoreand then I was pretty soon comfortable again. And we had him up to the sick-room, and had a high talk; and Tom give Jim forty dollars for being prisoner for us so patient, and doing it up so good, and Jim was pleased most to death, and busted out, and says:Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you?what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan? Come in, Huck, but doan look at his faceits too gashly.I didnt look at him at all. Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark ladder dont cost nothing, and dont waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he aint had no experience, and so he dont care what kind of a, Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you Id keep stillthats what ID do. I made fast and laid down under Jims nose on the raft, and began to gap, and stretch my fists out against Jim, and says: Hello, Jim, have I been asleep? Ive walked all the way and Im all tired out., Hungry, too, I reckon. We aint a-going to gnaw him out, are we?. We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself. I felt awful bad to see it; of course anybody would. En didnt I bust up agin a lot er dem islands en have a turrible time en mos git drownded? We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned. They cant bile that amount of water away off there at the sea. lynch him! youre afraid to back downafraid youll be found out to be what you arecowardsand so you raise a yell, and hang yourselves on to that half-a-mans coat-tail, and come raging up here, swearing what big things youre going to do. Go long with you now, and do as your mother told you.. The king he smiled eager, and shoved out his flapper, and says: Is it my poor brothers dear good friend and physician? There aint necessity enough in this case; and, besides, Jims a nigger, and wouldnt understand the reasons for it, and how its the custom in Europe; so well let it go. I got the thing, and the first rat that showed his nose I let drive, and if hed a stayed where he was hed a been a tolerable sick rat. And Ill start this very afternoon., No you wont, youll start now; and dont you lose any time about it, neither, nor do any gabbling by the way. By that time everything we had in the world was on our raft, and she was ready to be shoved out from the willow cove where she was hid. But the old man got pretty silent by and bydidnt have much to say, and didnt look pretty comfortable over all that petting that was going on around that duke. I noticed the window was up; so he had clumb in by the shed. No; such was not the fate ofYoung Stephen Dowling Bots;Though sad hearts round him thickened,Twas not from sickness shots. It was me he pointed at. IT was after sun-up now, but we went right on and didnt tie up. Come along, old hoss.. You never said no truer thing n that, you bet you. And once he said: Hear him beg! We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus there that afternoon, and the country people was already beginning to come in, in all kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses. I had my gun along, but I hadnt shot nothing; it was for protection; thought I would kill some game nigh home. MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all. I tried to, but the words wouldnt come. He says: Why, Tom! But next minute I whirled in on a kind of an explanation how a valley was different from a common servant and had to go to church whether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on account of its being the law. I stayed in the tree till it begun to get dark, afraid to come down. He told us to give attention. Would you a done any different? Next day you couldnt hear nothing around that town but how splendid that show was. I am the lineal descendant of that infantI am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!. When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough! I took notice, and done better.I started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just after dark. He left a letter behind for Harvey, and said hed told in it where his money was hid, and how he wanted the rest of the property divided up so Georges gyirls would be all rightfor George didnt leave nothing. I didnt lose no time. He aint no bad nigger, gentlemen; thats what I think about him.Somebody says: Well, it sounds very good, doctor, Im obleeged to say.. I jumped in, and was off in a hurry. What you reckon I better do? The river went on raising and raising for ten or twelve days, till at last it was over the banks. Lots of the women and girls was crying and taking on, scared most to death. And thats enough! and she snatched a kiss of him, and flew for the house to get the bed ready, and scattering orders right and left at the niggers and everybody else, as fast as her tongue could go, every jump of the way. All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare, and somebody sings out: By the living jingo, heres the bag of gold on his breast!. Jim said he believed it was spirits; but I says: No; spirits wouldnt say, Dern the dern fog.. Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in the world, and hadnt tried to writehe see William was going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper. Of course they will. Well, I couldnt stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time. WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. He says, very low: Tramptramptramp; thats the dead; tramptramptramp; theyre coming after me; but I wont go. WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession. Tom he made a sign to mekind of a little noise with his mouthand we went creeping away on our hands and knees. And he wanted to know all about it right off, because it was a grand adventure, and mysterious, and so it hit him where he lived. So me and the duke went up to the village, and hunted around there for the king, and by and by we found him in the back room of a little low doggery, very tight, and a lot of loafers bullyragging him for sport, and he a-cussing and a-threatening with all his might, and so tight he couldnt walk, and couldnt do nothing to them. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. So I said I would go for it. Then Tom and Bob went to the sideboard where the decanter was, and mixed a glass of bitters and handed it to him, and he held it in his hand and waited till Toms and Bobs was mixed, and then they bowed and said, Our duty to you, sir, and madam; and they bowed the least bit in the world and said thank you, and so they drank, all three, and Bob and Tom poured a spoonful of water on the sugar and the mite of whisky or apple brandy in the bottom of their tumblers, and give it to me and Buck, and we drank to the old people too. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldnt do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. That doctor lays on my mind. They dont set up with people thats got the mumps., They dont, dont they? And what do you reckon they said? So I says to myself, heres another place where I got to resk the truth. My hands shook, and I was making a bad job of it. Warnings to the people that something is up. Not because he had such a prestigious heritage but because of the strength and determination he possessed at least when he was not being a lazy pervert. Youve been treated bad, and you made up your mind to cut. But there warnt no getting away, you know. We didnt like the look of it. Look at that shirtevery last inch of it kivered over with secret African writn done with blood! Wheres that ten cents? When we was three or four hundred yards down-stream we see the lantern show like a little spark at the texas door for a second, and we knowed by that that the rascals had missed their boat, and was beginning to understand that they was in just as much trouble now as Jim Turner was. To think, here Ive been, night after night, ayou just get well once, you young scamp, and I lay Ill tan the Old Harry out o both o ye!. Pa, he lowed hed break up and go down and live with Uncle Ben, whos got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans. Your uncle Harveys a preacher, aint he? Aint them old crippled picks and things in there good enough to dig a nigger out with? I says. So me and the king lit out for the camp-meeting. So then we was pretty scared, and made up an agreement that we wouldnt have nothing in the world to do with such actions, and if we ever got the least show we would give them the cold shake and clear out and leave them behind. G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-nthere now, he says. But this time youve said it jest one time too many. So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three. He came in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one. The lot of towheads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome people and all kinds of mean folks, but if we minded our business and didnt talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the free States, and wouldnt have no more trouble. They might suspicion something if all of you was to go. Im awful sorry, Miss Mary Jane, Im just as sorry as I can be; but I done the best I could; I did honest. I shot out and went for the doctors house, but they told me hed gone away in the night some time or other, and warnt back yet. Take off your bonnet., No, I says; Ill rest a while, I reckon, and go on. If anybody can persuade him, she can.. The king never said nothing about going aboard, so I lost my ride, after all. It was funny they hadnt come in, after standing around so. The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldnt see a break in it hardly ever, or a light. He jumped and got the canoe ready, and put his old coat in the bottom for me to set on, and give me the paddle; and as I shoved off, he says: Pooty soon Ill be a-shoutn for joy, en Ill say, its all on accounts o Huck; Is a free man, en I couldnt ever ben free ef it hadn ben for Huck; Huck done it. And that is what he done. Jims got to do his inscription and coat of arms. I reckoned I couldnt stand it moren a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try. Dont you reckon I know who hid that money in that coffin?, Yes, sir! Thish yer comes of trustn to Providence. Jist for nothn. When we got there she set me down in a split-bottomed chair, and set herself down on a little low stool in front of me, holding both of my hands, and says: Now I can have a good look at you; and, laws-a-me, Ive been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and its come at last! Then get up my canoe to-morrow night, and fetch my raft over from the island. Then the duke says: Well, he was a pretty sick man, and likely he made a mistakeI reckon thats the way of it. I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to work to saw a section of the big bottom log outbig enough to let me through. I crossed over to that side and watched them. I peeped out through the willow branches, and there it wasa skiff, away across the water. Another was Henry Clays Speeches, and another was Dr. Gunns Family Medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead. Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten oclock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lifted a chicken that warnt roosting comfortable, and took him along. After em, boys, and turn loose the dogs!. 5 Home Worlds and 10 Quest Levels in a variety of themes are also in development. He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadnt ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for theirn. Then he strikes a most noble attitude, with one leg shoved forwards, and his arms stretched away up, and his head tilted back, looking up at the sky; and then he begins to rip and rave and grit his teeth; and after that, all through his speech, he howled, and spread around, and swelled up his chest, and just knocked the spots out of any acting ever I see before. And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils. and I as high as a tree and as big as a church? Jim said he didnt believe he could go any furtherso scared he hadnt hardly any strength left, he said. Of course I was where the current set in the closest to the shoreI knowed enough for that. You haint done a thing from the start that had any sense in it, except coming out so cool and cheeky with that imaginary blue-arrow mark. When we was at dinner, didnt you see a nigger man go in there with some vittles?, What did you think the vittles was for?, So it wasI noticed it. I had the middle watch, you know, but I was pretty sleepy by that time, so Jim he said he would stand the first half of it for me; he was always mighty good that way, Jim was. Betwixt the hut and the fence, on the back side, was a lean-to that joined the hut at the eaves, and was made out of plank. He was the most down on Solomon of any nigger I ever see. He said it was death. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send. Somehow it didnt seem to me that I said it was Mary before, so I didnt look upseemed to me I said it was Sarah; so I felt sort of cornered, and was afeared maybe I was looking it, too. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you aint sleepyif you are anywheres where it wont do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. Thats all he said. We was out of coffee, so Jim said I better go along with them in the canoe and get some. Dont cry, bub. I thought till I wore my head sore, but I couldnt see no way out of the trouble. If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of dimonds, and fill it full of chewing-gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperors daughter from China for you to marry, theyve got to do itand theyve got to do it before sun-up next morning, too. Dear, dear, it does seem like I could eat you up! And, besides, Ive already told em to put on another plate when I see you coming; so you mustnt disappoint us. Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though Ive always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do. In Hookerville, seven mile below. They are as tall as a tree and as big around as a church., Well, I says, spose we got some genies to help uscant we lick the other crowd then?, Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything theyre told to do they up and do it. Why, its perfectly ridiculous., Well, all right, Tom, fix it your own way; but if youll take my advice, youll let me borrow a sheet off of the clothesline.. But theres one thinghe can have a rope ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope ladder easy enough. Its because theyre hungry; thats the reason. 0 Jordinio 0 is a fanfiction author that has written 49 stories for Pokmon, Naruto, Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, Power Rangers, Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, My Hero Academia/, Toaru Majutsu no Index/, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh! And if hes gone over to tother side, go over there and git him. So they softened down and said it was all right; and when we got to the village they yawled us ashore. I had forgot it. Nothing couldnt be better. So the next day after the funeral, along about noon-time, the girls joy got the first jolt. Well, we cant help it; we got to do the best we can with the materials weve got. Then I says: Theres one more thingthat bag of money., Well, theyve got that; and it makes me feel pretty silly to think how they got it., No, youre out, there. I think I could. I uz powerful sorry yous killed, Huck, but I aint no mo now. They stopped pulling. Huck, you dont ever seem to want to do anything thats regular; you want to be starting something fresh all the time. De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up. Nor from me, neither. Ill never forgit you longs I live! says the man on the floor, sort of blubbering. All animals like musicin a prison they dote on it. My nigger had a monstrous easy time, because I warnt used to having anybody do anything for me, but Bucks was on the jump most of the time. Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with, and I made my mark on the paper. It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back. She flung herself at Tom, crying, and says: Oh, hes dead, hes dead, I know hes dead!. Mr. Hobson, and Deacon Lot Hovey, and Mr. Ben Rucker, and Abner Shackleford, and Levi Bell, and Dr. Robinson, and their wives, and the widow Bartley. Sudden as winking the ornery old cretur went an to smash, and fell up against the man, and put his chin on his shoulder, and cried down his back, and says: Alas, alas, our poor brothergone, and we never got to see him; oh, its too, too hard!Then he turns around, blubbering, and makes a lot of idiotic signs to the duke on his hands, and blamed if he didnt drop a carpet-bag and bust out a-crying. They swarmed up in front of Sherburns palings as thick as they could jam together, and you couldnt hear yourself think for the noise. I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went. A body cant hardly believe it, but he didnt. I closed in above the shore light, and laid on my oars and floated. But the duke kind of soured on him, and didnt look a bit satisfied with the way things was going; still, the king acted real friendly towards him, and said the dukes great-grandfather and all the other Dukes of Bilgewater was a good deal thought of by his father, and was allowed to come to the palace considerable; but the duke stayed huffy a good while, till by and by the king says: Like as not we got to be together a blamed long time on this h-yer raft, Bilgewater, and so whats the use o your bein sour? Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatchers and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldnt, and then he swore hed make the law force him. Den I gin m ten cents apiece, en dey uz mighty well satisfied, en wisht some mo rafs ud come along en make m rich agin. Your mother couldnt read, and she couldnt write, nuther, before she died. The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, and Jim could stand up straight in it. Say, where is that songthat draft?, In the bank for to be collected. But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard. David Garrick the younger, of Drury Lane Theatre, London, Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre, Whitechapel,Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, intheir sublime Shaksperean Spectacle entitled The Balcony Scene in. They knowed us, and didnt make no more noise than country dogs is always doing when anything comes by in the night. There warnt a sound there; everybody was asleep. He had houses and land, and its reckoned he left three or four thousand in cash hid up somers., Well, its all terrible sad; but weve all got to go, one time or another. Jim cleaned up the canoe, and I got my paddle ready. But the king he got the bag before I could think more than about a half a thought, and he never suspicioned I was around. He said he knowed most everything. You dont like trouble and danger. Wed skin him if he done that!, No! And I peeped out, and in a little while Toms Aunt Polly shook herself loose and stood there looking across at Tom over her spectacleskind of grinding him into the earth, you know. He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldnt find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jims blanket, ever so natural, thinking thered be some fun when Jim found him there. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. Early Access Release This is a multi-player, FPS, Deathmatch, team-based CTF, and Treasure looting Game. Nobody dont have to pay for the things they buy till a whole day after the auction on accounts of the short notice, and they aint going out of this till they get that money; and the way weve fixed it the sale aint going to count, and they aint going to get no money. What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean? She wuz on de closline yistiddy, but she done gone: she ain dah no mo now., I reckon the world is coming to an end. Then I turned around and there he was. Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin when he was away; I reckon I had hunted the place over as much as a hundred times; well, I was most all the time at it, because it was about the only way to put in the time. Its as mild as goose-milk. All the men jumped off of their horses and grabbed the hurt one and started to carry him to the store; and that minute the two boys started on the run. When the court wants to find out something about these two, let them send up to Bricksville and say theyve got the men that played the Royal Nonesuch, and ask for some witnesseswhy, youll have that entire town down here before you can hardly wink, Miss Mary. Jim said nobody would know me, even in the daytime, hardly. I called it borrowing, because that was what pap always called it; but Tom said it warnt borrowing, it was stealing. Then list with tearful eye,Whilst I his fate do tell.His soul did from this cold world flyBy falling down a well. I laid him out in a second with a stick, and Jim grabbed paps whisky-jug and begun to pour it down.He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel. I dont want to hear no more out of you! says the duke. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that niggers owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. It will be long after sun-up then, and when you ask for help you tell them your folks are all down with chills and fever. Well, Mary Jane she lit out the back way, I reckon; because nobody see her go. Just keep a tight tongue in your head and move right along, and then you wont get into trouble with us, dye hear?. In another bill he was the world-renowned Shakespearian tragedian, Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane, London. In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a divining-rod, dissipating witch spells, and so on. A big double loaf come along, and I most got it with a long stick, but my foot slipped and she floated out further. Yes, and aint privileged to sing the song yet. Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. De yuther servants wouldn miss me, kase deyd shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks uz outn de way. In about half an hour Toms wagon drove up to the front stile, and Aunt Sally she see it through the window, because it was only about fifty yards, and says: Why, theres somebody come! We got a licking every time one of our snakes come in her way, and she allowed these lickings warnt nothing to what she would do if we ever loaded up the place again with them. He was a blossom. But we got to let that go. I wish wed a timed her. We never showed a light till we was about ten mile below the village. Think o what, Brer Phelps, sI? Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldnt hardly notice the other niggers. So here they come, full tilt. I had shut the door to. Everybody looked hungry at it, and licked their chops. I never waited for to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back on my tiptoes as fast as ever I could. THEY asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the daytime instead of runningwas Jim a runaway nigger? I know its sosomething tells me so., Why, Sally, I couldnt miss him along the roadyou know that., But oh, dear, dear, what will Sis say! He warnt a boy to meeky along up that yard like a sheep; no, he come cam and important, like the ram. I set it down, private, because somebody might want me to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it. Everybody was sorry she died, because she had laid out a lot more of these pictures to do, and a body could see by what she had done what they had lost. It was getting gray daylight now. Well, I felt better right off. She didnt ever have to stop to think. Then he dropped down and went to sleep again; but what he had been saying give me the very idea I wanted. I was a-studying over my text in Acts Seventeen before breakfast, and I reckon I put it in there, not noticing, meaning to put my Testament in, and it must be so, because my Testament aint in; but Ill go and see; and if the Testament is where I had it, Ill know I didnt put it in, and that will show that I laid the Testament down and took up the spoon, and, Oh, for the lands sake! and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. I says to myself, theyll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me. So the king he blattered along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dog in town, by his name, and mentioned all sorts of little things that happened one time or another in the town, or to Georges family, or to Peter. And what do you think? I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be interestedand I was, tooand says: Three hundred dollars is a power of money. But it warnt no use; he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldnt imitate the lingo no better than what he did was a fraud and a liar. Tom poked about amongst the passages, and pretty soon ducked under a wall where you wouldnt a noticed that there was a hole. Tom jerked the door open and flung out a slab of Jims meat, and the dogs went for it, and in two seconds he was out himself and back again and shut the door, and I knowed hed fixed the other door too. And when it was late in the day the people all went, and then I come in and told her the noise and shooting waked up me and Sid, and the door was locked, and we wanted to see the fun, so we went down the lightning-rod, and both of us got hurt a little, and we didnt never want to try that no more. Look at that-air grindstone, sI; want to tell met any cretur ts in his right mind s a goin to scrabble all them crazy things onto a grindstone, sI? She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the middle, and a tall flag-pole at each end. Well, then, I says, joking or no joking, if you hear anything said about a runaway nigger, dont forget to remember that you dont know nothing about him, and I dont know nothing about him.. Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin, exiled, trampled-on, and sufferin rightful King of France.. He said so his own self afterwards. Want to keep it off? And he said: Ef yous got hairy arms en a hairy breas, its a sign dat yous agwyne to be rich. It was a monstrous big river down theresometimes a mile and a half wide; we run nights, and laid up and hid daytimes; soon as night was most gone we stopped navigating and tied upnearly always in the dead water under a towhead; and then cut young cottonwoods and willows, and hid the raft with them. We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up-bound steamboats fight the big river in the middle. I changed to the Illinois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warnt disappointed. Obsequies aint used in England no more nowits gone out. The benches was made out of outside slabs of logs, with holes bored in the round side to drive sticks into for legs. That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it. About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it. Done by him 300 consecutive nights in Paris! Anyway, he set there, and pretty soon he begun to smile, and says: Mf! We want a little something to answer encores with, anyway., Ill answer by doing the Highland fling or the sailors hornpipe; and youwell, let me seeoh, Ive got ityou can do Hamlets soliloquy.. But me and Jim was consultingand thinking. 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. Bill wanted to kill Turner. I couldnt look up yet. I didnt want to go back no more. Early Access Release This is a multi-player, FPS, Deathmatch, team-based CTF, and Treasure looting Game. Dont mind what I saidplease dontyou wont, now, will you? Laying her silky hand on mine in that kind of a way that I said I would die first. I couldnt tell how many was in it. There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I dont know where, but it didnt go to the river. You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it youll spend it.. Keep your hands off of me! says the doctor. You couldnt make out what the preacher said any more, on account of the shouting and crying. He said it was all done by enchantment. Old Peter had friends, and they aint going to let them come to no harm. Jim said he hadnt ever seen a bigger one. Why, they might as well lend him the key and done with it. And always is. I reckoned I better keep still. I didnt know whether the money was in there or not. I doan know how to make it. I crept up the dead water under the bank, and hadnt no accidents and didnt see nobody. Well, by the end of three weeks everything was in pretty good shape. I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that Id found when I was exploring; so we started and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide. Why, half the time you cant read anything a prisoner writes on a tin plate, or anywhere else., Well, then, whats the sense in wasting the plates?, Why, blame it all, it aint the prisoners plates., Well, sposn it is? Yes, I remember now, he did die. I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would. I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me. He was well born, as the saying is, and thats worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, though he warnt no more quality than a mudcat himself. And its usual for the prisoners mother to change clothes with him, and she stays in, and he slides out in her clothes. I haint done nothing to him. Oh, theyre here! I roused him out and says: Git up and hump yourself, Jim! I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern. Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States. Cuss you, I can see now why you was so anxious to make up the deffisityou wanted to get what money Id got out of the Nonesuch and one thing or another, and scoop it all!. 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