The Writings of Mark Twain: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade)American Publishing Company, 1899 |
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... for Him— Locked in the Cabin — Sinking the Body - Resting 53 CHAPTER VIII . Sleeping in the Woods - Raising the Dead - Exploring the Island- Finding Jim - Jim's Escape - Signs - Balum 61 · CHAPTER IX . The Cave - The Floating House • ( ix )
... for Him— Locked in the Cabin — Sinking the Body - Resting 53 CHAPTER VIII . Sleeping in the Woods - Raising the Dead - Exploring the Island- Finding Jim - Jim's Escape - Signs - Balum 61 · CHAPTER IX . The Cave - The Floating House • ( ix )
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... body could tell what to do with . 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 ...
... body could tell what to do with . 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 ...
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... body , being gone , you see , yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it . And she took snuff , too ; of course that was all right , because she done it herself . Her sister , Miss Watson , a ...
... body , being gone , you see , yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it . And she took snuff , too ; of course that was all right , because she done it herself . Her sister , Miss Watson , a ...
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... body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing , forever and ever . So I didn't think much of it . But I never said so . I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there , and she . said not by a ...
... body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing , forever and ever . So I didn't think much of it . But I never said so . I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there , and she . said not by a ...
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... body that was dead , and a whippowill and a dog cry- ing about somebody that was going to die ; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me , and I couldn't make out what it was , and so it made the cold shivers run over me ...
... body that was dead , and a whippowill and a dog cry- ing about somebody that was going to die ; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me , and I couldn't make out what it was , and so it made the cold shivers run over me ...
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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 114 - Well, then, why ain't it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us? You answer me that." "Is a cat a man, Huck?" "No." "Well, den, dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a man. Is a cow a man?— er is a cow a cat?
Page 196 - ... stage full of men, in the day-time, and robbed the lot. Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people— whereas you're just as brave, and no braver. Why don't your juries hang murderers? Because they're afraid the man's friends will shoot them in the back, in the dark— and it's just what they would do.
Page 161 - Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put in the time. It was a monstrous big river down there— sometimes a mile and a half wide...
Page 130 - I'd feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time.
Page 128 - I didn't answer up prompt. I tried to, but the words wouldn't come. I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough — hadn't the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says: "He's white.
Page 147 - He was as kind as he could be — you could feel that, you know, and so you had confidence. Sometimes he smiled, and it was good to see; but when he straightened himself up like a libertypole, and the lightning begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards.
Page 130 - 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 pinch comes there ain't nothing to back him up and keep him to 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 than what you do now?
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...