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CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits. CHAPTER II. The Boys Escape Jim.—Torn Sawyer’s Gang.—Deep-laid Plans. CHAPTER II…
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“Ransomed? What’s that?” “I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.” “But…
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That pleased the old man till he couldn’t rest. He said he’d cowhide me till I was black and blue if I didn’t raise some money for him. I b…
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Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the axe good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the axe in the corner. Then I t…
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“Well, that’s so. You’ve had to keep in the woods all the time, of course. Did you hear ’em shooting the cannon?” “Oh, yes. I knowed dey wa…
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“Oh, no, not everybody. A good many thinks he done it. But they’ll get the nigger pretty soon now, and maybe they can scare it out of him.”…
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“Yes, I reck’n you are. But s’pose she don’t break up and wash off?” “Well, we can wait the two hours anyway and see, can’t we?” “All right…
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I had to claw away from the bank pretty lively four or five times, to keep from knocking the islands out of the river; and so I judged the…
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It was one of these long, slanting, two-mile crossings; so I was a good long time in getting over. I made a safe landing, and clumb up the…
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“Him? He never done nothing to me.” “Well, then, what did you want to kill him for?” “Why, nothing—only it’s on account of the feud.” “What…
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One morning about daybreak I found a canoe and crossed over a chute to the main shore—it was only two hundred yards—and paddled about a mil…
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Well, the first I knowed the king got a-going, and you could hear him over everybody; and next he went a-charging up on to the platform, an…
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There was considerable jawing back, so I slid out, thinking maybe there was going to be trouble. The streets was full, and everybody was ex…
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He was uncommon bright, the duke was, and he soon struck it. He dressed Jim up in King Lear’s outfit—it was a long curtain-calico gown, and…
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The king he smiled eager, and shoved out his flapper, and says: “Is it my poor brother’s dear good friend and physician? I—” “Keep your han…
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They buried him, and we come back home, and I went to watching faces again—I couldn’t help it, and I couldn’t rest easy. But nothing come o…
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Well, they held the auction in the public square, along towards the end of the afternoon, and it strung along, and strung along, and the ol…
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“You old scoundrel, I didn’t, and you know I didn’t. There, now!” “Well, then, I b’lieve you. But answer me only jest this one more—now don…
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A nigger woman come tearing out of the kitchen with a rolling-pin in her hand, singing out, “Begone you Tige! you Spot! begone sah!” and sh…
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“Ready?” “Yes,” I says. “All right—bring it out.” “My plan is this,” I says. “We can easy find out if it’s Jim in there. Then get up my can…
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“This ain’t no thirty-seven year job; this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.” He never said nothing. But he sighed, and pretty soon h…
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Jim says: “Why, Mars Tom, I hain’t got no coat o’ arm; I hain’t got nuffn but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows I got to keep de journal on…
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“Where’s the butter?” “I laid out a hunk of it,” I says, “on a piece of a corn-pone.” “Well, you left it laid out, then—it ain’t here.” “We…
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CHAPTER XLII. 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,…