 They went off and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get STARTED right when he's little ain't got no show - when the...  The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] - Page 128by Mark Twain - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1884 - 496 pages
...and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same ? I was stuck. I couldn't answer 141 that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about...looked all around ; he warn't anywhere. I says : " Jim ! " " HERB I IS, HUCK." " Here I is, Huck. Is dey out o' sight yit ? Don't talk loud." He was in the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1896 - 462 pages
...your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck. Here, I'll put a twenty - dollar gold piece on this board, and you get it when it floats...there. I looked all around, he warn't anywhere. I says: " Here I is, Huck. Is dey out o' sight yit? Don't talk loud." He was in the river under the stern oar,... | |
 | 1910 - 368 pages
...thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on, s'pose you'da done right and give Jim up, would you have felt better than what you do now ? No, says I, I'd...this always do whichever come handiest at the time." Huckleberry Finn was unable to apologize for the impulse upon which he acted. It seemed to him a weakness... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 444 pages
...it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was I stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't...this \ always do whichever come handiest at the time. Vx" I went into the wigwam; Jim warn't there. I looked all around; he warn't anywhere. I says: "Jim!"... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 440 pages
...his work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s'pose you'd 'a' done right and give Jim up, would you felt better...warn't anywhere. I says: "Jim!" "Here I is, Huck. Isdey out o" sight yit? Don't talk loud." He was in the river under the stern oar, with just his nose... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - 1971 - 1530 pages
...learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages ;s just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that....this always do whichever come handiest at the time. . . . Sometimes we'd have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks... | |
 | George C. Carrington - 1976 - 232 pages
...started right when he's little ain't got no show there ain't nothing to back him up" — and concludes, "So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it,...this always do whichever come handiest at the time." "Whichever come handiest at the time" — that explains the situational Twain world. "Whichever" it... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1982 - 1190 pages
...I'll put a twenty dollar gold piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by. I feel might}' mean to leave you, but my kingdom! it won't do to...this always do whichever come handiest at the time. "Any men on it?" "Only one, sir." "Well, there's five niggers run off to-night, up yonder above the... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 pages
...his work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s'pose you'd 'a' done right and give Jim up, would you felt better...this always do whichever come handiest at the time. QUESTIONS 1 . When Huck says that he will just do what comes handiest at the time, what does he mean... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1987 - 388 pages
...better than what you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad —I'd feel just the same way I do now. Wefl, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right...there. I looked all around; he warn't anywhere. I says: "Here I is, Huck. Is dey out o' sight yit? Don't talk loud." He was in the river under the stem oar,... | |
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