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| NOTICE: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narra- tive will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. ..... | |
| ..... You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ..... | |
| ..... We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. ..... | |
| ..... She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't so. ..... | |
| ..... I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five ..... | |
| ..... There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl ..... | |
| ..... WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up that money, and he went for me, too ..... | |
| ..... I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. ..... | |
| ..... I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. ..... | |
| ..... I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that I'd found when I was exploring ..... | |
| ..... After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn't want to. He said it would fetch bad luck ..... | |
| ..... She said she wouldn't let me go by myself, but her husband would be in by and by, maybe in a hour and a half, and she'd send him along with me. ..... | |
| ..... If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe ..... | |
| ..... Well, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. ..... | |
| ..... By and by, when we got up, we turned over the truck the gang had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things ..... | |
| ..... 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. ..... | |
| ..... She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried as many as thirty men, likely. She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the mid- dle, and a tall flag-pole at each end. ..... | |
| ..... In about a minute somebody spoke out of a window without putting his head out, and says ..... | |
| ..... COL. GRANGERFORD was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse ..... | |
| ..... TWO or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. ..... | |
| ..... 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 running -- was Jim a runaway nigger? ..... | |
| ..... It was after sun-up now, but we went right on and didn't tie up. The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal. ..... | |
| ..... They swarmed up towards Sherburn's house, a- whooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to see. ..... | |
| ..... Well, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time. ..... | |
| ..... Next day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow towhead out in the middle, where there was a village on each side of the river, and the duke and the king begun to lay out a plan for working them towns. ..... | |
| ..... THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was like a soldier march. ..... | |
| ..... Well, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for spare rooms, and she said she had one spare room, which would do for Uncle William, and she'd give her own room to Uncle Harvey ..... | |
| ..... I crept to their doors and listened; they was snor- ing. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right. There warn't a sound anywheres. ..... | |
| ..... By and by it was getting-up time. So I come down the ladder and started for down-stairs; but as I come to the girls' room the door was open, and I see Mary Jane setting by her old hair trunk, which was open and she'd been packing things in it -- getting ready to go to England. ..... | |
| ..... They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentle- man along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling. And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up. ..... | |
| ..... When they got aboard the king went for me, and shook me by the collar, and says ..... | |
| ..... We dasn't stop again at any town for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather now, and a mighty long ways from home. ..... | |
| ..... When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny; the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lone- some and like everybody's dead and gone ..... | |
| ..... So I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along. I says "Hold on!" ..... | |
| ..... We stopped talking, and got to thinking. By and by Tom says ..... | |
| ..... It would be most an hour yet till breakfast, so we left and struck down into the woods; because Tom said we got to have some light to see how to dig by, and a lantern makes too much, and might get us into trouble ..... | |
| ..... As soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work. ..... | |
| ..... So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an old tin washpan ..... | |
| ..... Making them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the in- scription was going to be the toughest of all. That's the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall. ..... | |
| ..... In the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally's bed. ..... | |
| ..... We was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a-fishing, with a lunch, and had a good time, and took a look at the raft and found her all right, and got home late to supper, and found them in such a sweat and worry they didn't know which end they was standing on ..... | |
| ..... The doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-look- ing old man when I got him up. I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island hunt- ing yesterday afternoon, and camped on a piece of a raft we found, and about midnight he must a kicked his gun in his dreams, for it went off and shot him in the leg ..... | |
| ..... The old man was uptown again before breakfast, but couldn't get no track of Tom; and both of them set at the table thinking, and not saying nothing, and looking mournful, and their coffee getting cold, and not eating anything. ..... | |
| ..... The first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion? -- what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? ..... |
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