The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 13Harper & brothers, 1912 |
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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 158 - It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't agoing to tell all that happened — it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night, to see such things. I ain't ever going to get shut of them — lots of times I dream about them.
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 287 - I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now; and then I happened to look around, and see that paper.
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 38 - There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl— a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.
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 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 140 - ... a mighty nice house, too. I hadn't seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style. It didn't have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town.
Page 248 - Judus if she took the notion — there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see ; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery.