The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.], Volume 13Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 |
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... 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 . That is just the way with some people . They get down on a ...
... 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 . That is just the way with some people . They get down on a ...
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... pretty soon she would say , " Don't gap and stretch like that , Huckleberry- why don't you try to be- have ? " 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 ...
... pretty soon she would say , " Don't gap and stretch like that , Huckleberry- why don't you try to be- have ? " 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 ...
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... Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder , and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle ; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up . I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me ...
... Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder , and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle ; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up . I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me ...
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... 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 some more ; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us ; we ...
... 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 some more ; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us ; we ...
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... pretty soon comfortable again . Tom he made a sign to me kind of a little noise with his mouth and we went creeping away on our hands and knees . When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me , and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun ...
... pretty soon comfortable again . Tom he made a sign to me kind of a little noise with his mouth and we went creeping away on our hands and knees . When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me , and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun ...
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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.