The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.], Volume 13Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 |
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... Nigger Stealer - Southern Hospitality - A Pretty Long Blessing Tar and Feathers . . - CHAPTER XXXIV . 292 • 301 The Hut by the Ash - hopper- Outrageous - Climbing the Light- ning - rod - Troubled with Witches CHAPTER XXXV . - Escaping ...
... Nigger Stealer - Southern Hospitality - A Pretty Long Blessing Tar and Feathers . . - CHAPTER XXXIV . 292 • 301 The Hut by the Ash - hopper- Outrageous - Climbing the Light- ning - rod - Troubled with Witches CHAPTER XXXV . - Escaping ...
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... niggers in and had prayers , and then everybody was off to bed . I went up to my room with a piece of candle , and put it on the table . Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful , but it warn't ...
... niggers in and had prayers , and then everybody was off to bed . I went up to my room with a piece of candle , and put it on the table . Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful , but it warn't ...
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... nigger , named Jim , was setting in the kitchen door ; we could see him pretty clear , because there was a light behind him . He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute , listening . Then he says : " Who dah ? " He listened ...
... nigger , named Jim , was setting in the kitchen door ; we could see him pretty clear , because there was a light behind him . He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute , listening . Then he says : " Who dah ? " He listened ...
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... niggers . Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it , and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that country . Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all over , same as if he was a wonder . Niggers ...
... niggers . Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it , and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that country . Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all over , same as if he was a wonder . Niggers ...
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... nigger , Jim , had a hair - ball as big as your fist , which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox , and he used to do magic with it . He said there was a spirit inside of it , and it knowed everything . So I went to him that ...
... nigger , Jim , had a hair - ball as big as your fist , which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox , and he used to do magic with it . He said there was a spirit inside of it , and it knowed everything . So I went to him that ...
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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.