The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.], Volume 13Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 |
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... bank . But I warn't comfortable long , because I happened to think of something . I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don't float on his back , but on his face . So I knowed , then , that this warn't pap , but a woman dressed up in ...
... bank . But I warn't comfortable long , because I happened to think of something . I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don't float on his back , but on his face . So I knowed , then , that this warn't pap , but a woman dressed up in ...
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... bank . I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down , and a sprinkling of bark ; so I knowed the river had begun to rise . I reckoned I would have great times now if I was over at the town . The June rise used to be ...
... bank . I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down , and a sprinkling of bark ; so I knowed the river had begun to rise . I reckoned I would have great times now if I was over at the town . The June rise used to be ...
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... bank like a frog , clothes and all on , and struck out for the canoe . I just expected there'd be somebody lay- ing down in it , because people often done that to fool folks , and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd ...
... bank like a frog , clothes and all on , and struck out for the canoe . I just expected there'd be somebody lay- ing down in it , because people often done that to fool folks , and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd ...
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... bank . The river was coming up pretty fast , and lots of driftwood going by on the rise . By and by along comes part of a log raft - nine logs fast together . We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore . Then we had dinner . Anybody ...
... bank . The river was coming up pretty fast , and lots of driftwood going by on the rise . By and by along comes part of a log raft - nine logs fast together . We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore . Then we had dinner . Anybody ...
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... bank and looked out over the river . All safe . So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods , and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig ; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the ...
... bank and looked out over the river . All safe . So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods , and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig ; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the ...
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Page 15 - You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
Page iii - NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative 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.
Page 277 - And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm...
Page 123 - It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd 'a' knowed it would make him feel that way.
Page 162 - ... by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way...
Page 185 - To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
Page 370 - I've knowed him all his life, and so has Tom, there. Old Miss Watson died two months ago, and she was ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and said so ; and she set him free in her will." " Then what on earth did you want to set him free for, seeing he was already free...
Page 111 - We skipped out and looked ; but it warn't nothing but the flutter of a steamboat's wheel away down, coming around the point ; so we come back. "Yes...
Page 287 - Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lolly Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man.
Page 15 - The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.