"She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up."
"Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t. She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and I must try to not do it any more."
"Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there."
"She got mad then, but I didn’t mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular."
"Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me."
Chapter 1...
"Miss Watson’s big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him."
"…we could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn’t a sound, and we all there so close together."
"When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun."
"Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it."
"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."
"We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys Tom got out a sheet of paper "that he had wrote the oath on, and read it."
"They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or somebody to kill…and so I offered them Miss Watson."
Chapter 2...
"We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned. All the boys did."
"We hadn’t robbed nobody, hadn’t killed any people, but only just pretended."
"Pap he hadn’t been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn’t want to see him no more."
"He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me."
Chapter 3...
"WELL, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now."
"At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it."
"Miss Watson’s nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist… and he used to do magic with it."
"I went to him that night and told him pap was here again."
"Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened. But it warn’t no use; he said it wouldn’t talk."
"He said sometimes it wouldn’t talk without money."
“You wants to keep ’way fum de water as much as you kin, en don’t run no resk, ’kase it’s down in de bills dat you’s gwyne to git hung.”
"When I lit my candle and went up to my room that night there sat pap—his own self!"
Chapter 4...
"He was most fifty, and he looked it."
"Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher’s and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn’t, and then he swore he’d make the law force him… but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn’t know the old man; so he said courts mustn’t interfere and separate families if they could help it."
"And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he’d been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn’t be ashamed of, and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him."
"So they shook it, one after the other, all around, and cried."
"…towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up."
Chapter 5...
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
The End
"…it would only make trouble, and wouldn’t do no good."
…we could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn’t a sound, and we all there so close together.
"
"It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets"