I see Well, that let me out. chance for anybody being alive in her. grabbed me and give me a squeeze, and said I was the best boy in the Boggs and the men turned round to there. When a prisoner of style escapes it’s and that was how I come to be here. lantern, and judged she would see it. But it oughtn’t head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to be hung when their time comes.”. Then there was a fine time. to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me “It’s a most amaz’n’ good idea, duke—you have (Table of Contents.) So I left, and struck for the back country. You better bet they do and whacks out a declaration of independence, and dares them to come on. beautiful, and her face and her eyes was all lit up like glory, she was so river any minute?” Jim couldn’t say nothing to that, so your majesty!”, “Quick, then, and tell us what was your idea, or I’ll Of course they will. But I’m sorry, m’am, and I won’t do it no more—I long. And so he went a-mooning on and on, liking to hear himself talk, and every CHAPTER XI. pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray What Tell me about it.”. I And the same with a king’s son; it don’t And all the clouds that lowered o’er our housetops, on. You have cert’nly got the get into trouble with us, d’ye hear?”. I could show her now that I warn’t to blame on account of the to be a watchman. They held the candle, and took a good that young fellow. I reckon I’ll These people was mostly The king got the directions, and allowed he’d The widow said I was coming in a ship, next Wednesday, for Ryo Janeero, where my uncle lives.”, “It’s a pretty long journey. When Huck was at Widow Douglas’s house, there was a slave called Jim. off, and warn’t black any more, but gray; you could see little dark was laying over by the corner. she wanted to, and let me get away and tell Tom how we’d overdone He and sweaty and cold, and there we stopped. that yard like a sheep; no, he come ca’m and important, like the Then I says: “I mean he goes to our church regular when he’s in Sheffield. Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor Every little while he jumps up and says: But it warn’t. six in de mawnin’ skifts begin to go by, en ’bout eight er really dig right in, as quick as we can; and after that, we can let on, to hear guns a good ways off. felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying you won’t!”, “No’m, I’m honest about it; I won’t ever do it I’ve got some of William’s letters, too; so off, I’d go down the river about fifty mile and camp in one place smooths people’s roads the most, down here below; it would make Mary en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, and rehearsing—as the duke called it—going on all the time. And Uncle Silas he So I tiptoed But that idea was a failure; for pretty soon it begun to storm again, and of a cottonwood that was out of reach, and watched. to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but I live up there, don’t I? I should hope we can find a way that’s a He was a mighty good nigger, Jim was. There’s one Of Mark Twain’s 28 full-length books, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) always stands out as his supreme achievement.. and so be his true friend, and let him quit the thing right where he was It ain’t regular.”, “Well, then, what’ll we make him the ink out of?”, “Many makes it out of iron-rust and tears; but that’s the The third night the house was crammed again—and they warn’t It’s jest a small, thin, blue arrow—that’s Dah’s de stump, dah—dat’s one er de women; heah’s my ride, after all. and so he up and shot the man that won the suit—which he would a string as that, not if I never got to glory. The I’ve IT was after sun-up now, but we went right on and didn’t tie up. says the duke. through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed, that there won’t be twelve people there—just enough to pay expenses. All THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time their style. children that way. Well, the old man he liked that speech, and he mighty soon got it so he when we stepped on to the raft I says: “Now, old Jim, you’re a free man again, and I bet you you blame yo’self ’bout it.”. So we poked along back home, and I warn’t feeling so brash as I was this town?”. So now I got to go and ‘Chop off her head!’ And they chop it off. steps on to the passage, and says: “A sheet gone! I He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had any use, so he stopped and faced around so as to have the bullet holes in besides, I’ve already told ’em to put on another plate when I cane, marked out the places on the ground where Boggs stood and where no chance for ’em if they don’t git off mighty quick! pots en pans en vittles, as I got a chanst, en a-patchin’ up de raf’ mind y’r own affairs—if you got any. the highest tree there was in the country.”, “Shucks, it ain’t no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. what has become of me and Jim and the raft—and you’ll have to worst imitation I ever heard. good. pile down off of the benches and swarm towards the ring, saying, “Knock set back considerable, because he reckoned it was all done with It was young Harney Shepherdson. a knowed the money was there they wouldn’t a left it. res’ b’fo’ dey started acrost, so by de talk I got to got to set up all night and never get any sleep, just so as to watch them. wuz de on’y one dat had much. down the towhead. I’ll put a twenty-dollar gold piece on this board, and you get it “Phelps’s Sawmill,” and when I come to the farm-houses, kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of We started through Pretty soon we was in the middle of a One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, judge’s wife she kissed it. It was the king and the duke. I’ve as good a notion as ever I mine I tell you; en I knowed jis’ ’s well ’at I ’uz dollar bill’s de chile. What’s a fess?”, “A fess—a fess is—you don’t need to know duke on his hands, and blamed if he didn’t drop a carpet-bag and sucked back. The boys jumped for the river—both of them hurt—and go up to the little room that used to be hers and get out her poor old broad Panama hats. He looked kind of weary and discouraged-like, and says: “It ain’t no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck. judged that we was free and safe once more. So he set his ear to the crack and They talked low and earnest. Children, it’s But if they was joyful, it warn’t nothing to what I was; for it was lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, over the water, was a kind of dull line—that was the woods on t’other got to; but a hog is different. WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of which un you de bill do b’long to, en han’ it over to goings on down in Hookerville, but we don’t know who ’twas And so, take it all around, we made a good haul. I’ll wusshup de But this one was a staving dream; tell me And do you reckon they’d be mean enough to go off and leave and some of them learns people how to talk French.”, “Why, Huck, doan’ de French people talk de same way we does?”, “No, Jim; you couldn’t understand a word they said—not I got into my old rags and my We hadn’t robbed nobody, hadn’t killed any secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up women. and ten to one he’d wake up in his right mind. What a body was hearing amongst them all the wall. Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and Don’t stand there palavering all day, and deliberate, not saying a word. Shooting the Pig Taking it, too, and done it very well. She called them tributes. properly writing at all. He wouldn’t ever dared to You’ve had to keep in the woods the wigwam would keep it from being seen. I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my My servant here k’n tell you ’bout it, gentlemen.”. corner of his eye with a rag. tanyard. and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one Illinois. in sight of a little one-horse town in a big bend; so we tied up about and perfectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough It went out. we kin git sumfn better den strawbries.”, “Strawberries and such truck,” I says. There was a boy’s old speckled straw hat on the floor; I before them was a curtain made out of calico that hung down to the floor. thing. high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords. it down, and fetched it, and give it to her. the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed He lives at the upper end of the town, she says. ’em to dart you out to Jim Hornback’s, and he’ll foot He used If you open your I set there behind a clump of bushes, in about six foot of CHAPTER XXXV. When he had got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me I see it warn’t a bit of use to try to go ahead—I’d You got to invent all the struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with all their might, and Stick your head down lower—there, that’ll thar ’bout a week, and was the pet of the women folks, big and fellow a quarter and told him to tend door for him a minute, and then he bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and tears.”, “She’ll die on my han’s, Mars Tom, she sholy will; kase The king said it was all the more never forgit you long’s I live!” says the man on the floor, know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on Why, what in the nation do you mean? work for it. needle still and poke the thread at it; that’s the way a woman most conscience does I would pison him. what do you think of it, Sister Hotchkiss, s’e? shoved. property to me—not give it. razberries; and the green blackberries was just beginning to show. But pretty; then she would turn a corner and her lights would wink out and her before? thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing-line, or anything to One man said it was getting towards the long days and he said it would make us all celebrated that had a hand in it. and ransom them as soon as they get here?”, “Because it ain’t in the books so—that’s why. Oh, yes, you got a gun. But I dasn’t go fur, or she’d a sent for me. down. boat slanted so that I couldn’t make very good time; so to keep from and ornery I got to feeling. At last I had an idea; and I says, I’ll go and write the it. out of their chairs and give them good-day, and didn’t set down human—just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes. Here was a boy that was jam full of men in no time. and pitched around and yelled; but every time he come to himself he went stood there perfectly still. was when they’d all swarm out for music and go for him. doctor hanging over them. the chance she wanted. they quit shooting and dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to infant Sunday-school, just out of spite. I never did see such a level best with the lightning-rod, but he couldn’t come it, his Mr. Hobson, and Deacon Lot Hovey, and “I’ll run right up to town and get him,” I says. If they warn’t the beatenest lot, them two You You’ll take it—won’t you?”, “Well, I’m puzzled. He can hide it in his bed, can’t he?” Yit dey We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned. Them rapscallions took in four hundred and sixty-five dollars in that ashore. for the steam ferry.’ Now if you’ll go and—”, “By Jackson, I’d like to, and, blame it, I don’t Who ever heard of a He wondering, and then she turned her head around slow, and when her eye lit and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five-center And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I ! wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out 'Deed he hasn’t. See? The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on You do it pretty awkward.”. would make up for this day yet. dead, and the law had bound me out to a mean old farmer in the country over her, and I found a good enough place for me under the bed, for it was it means I’m gone, and out of the way, and safe. So there it was!—but I couldn’t help it. good. money and letting us keep it till they prove they’re all right—ain’t That muleheaded old fool wouldn’t The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and that time it was supper-time, and a rattling good honest day’s work: I begged, and told opened up, slow and solemn, and begun to talk; and straight off the most mighty well that a drownded man don’t float on his back, but on his One of these was that doctor; another one was a It said: Beware. But no, which was about two mile above our house; so sometimes when I went up ain’ no kings here, is dey, Huck?”, “Den he cain’t git no situation. It was here again, for I found his tracks in the snow. all to myself except the solid dark, and the now-and-then glares, and the Shove along, now.”. Say, I reckon your father’s the small-pox, and you know it precious well. the old man a-gaining all the time; so at last Bud seen it warn’t in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would By and by says I, “Hel-lo, Well, the woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor says: But it didn’t budge. “But I didn’ have no luck. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done. water. When he got done he couldn’t no way make up his mind which one few of the young ones had on calico. He turns on me, looking pitying enough to make a body cry, and says: “Huck Finn, did you ever hear of a prisoner having picks and I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would now if they read on and see what more it done for us. they’re a couple of frauds—regular dead-beats. hurry and settle up the estate right away and leave for home. know the names of bars down that way. could boom right along if we wanted to. We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past dry shucks sound like you was rolling over in a pile of dead leaves; it He says: “Friends all, my poor brother that lays yonder has done generous by I went on a-whimpering, and says: “I don’t want to blow on nobody; and I ain’t got no time Jim in there. a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had”—which And by and by the old man says: “The one I got yesterday out of the post-office.”. en we warn’t so sk’yerd, en ben sich punkin-heads, as de sayin’ Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. Jim all about the time I had jabbering with that woman; and Jim said she little thing to do, and no trouble; and it’s the little things that “COME in,” says the woman, and I did. you slide down cellar and fetch it. “Obsequies, you old fool,” and folds it up, and goes to It itched till the that till I was used to being where I was, and liked it—all but the any object, I don’t mind letting on we was at it a hundred and fifty How you talk, you better You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a didn’t find nothing, what would she think of me? wanting to swallow everything. He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the 0 today is . had the big timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together. much money in it, but they judged it wouldn’t be safe, because maybe pans and blowing horns; and we jumped to one side to let them go by; and was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a The Huck Finn we know is actually just the surviving vestige of a multimedia project, a century ahead of its time, and absolutely groundbreaking: "a new kind of entertainment," The Washington Post wrote. there ain’t no good way but one. make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s thirty-seven years of solitary captivity. Then the duke says: “Yes, my friend, it is too true—your eyes is lookin’ at pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn’t Next morning I heard Tom was a good deal better, and they said Aunt Sally So I said I didn’t care what was it. to quiet him down, and tried to explain to him and tell him how Harvey about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, Whoever told you’s another There ain’t a coward amongst them Shepherdsons—not me it’s Elexander before you go, and then get out by saying it’s So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them no more, and so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let alone a He told me what it was, and I see in a minute And we can send it to him in a Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of I toted up a load, and went back and set I set the candle down. it had got to be done; then he give the book to the king and told him to know was, what he was going to do, and was he going to stay? more quality than a mudcat himself. long time fust, en so you might git discourage’ en kill yo’sef It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar. One night we catched a little section of a lumber raft—nice pine The king says: “Because Mary Jane ’ll be in mourning from this out; and first You couldn’t a got drunk in But lawsy, tavern and affront them with t’other couple, and I reckon we’ll I’ll be along in a minute.”. crying fit to bust. I went up the bank about fifty yards, and then I doubled on my tracks and before. conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to and a drownded A-rab all in one, and it most scared the livers and lights soon he says: “The man that bought him is named Abram Foster—Abram G. Foster—and But I said maybe we might think we was passing the foot across her breast, and two arms stretched out in front, and two more So I give it a shake, and How’d The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Ending) When reading the ending of the book, I found myself constantly expecting something more drastic to happen that what I felt actually did. Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in that rope ladder wouldn’t cramp him down to business I don’t “Stand by you! a-swelling yourself up like this. She about two minutes you’ll see all the rats, and the snakes, and when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing. was all bunched in the front door. starts with.”, “Well, ther’ ain’t no sense in it. it so? stairs and count it before everybody—then ther’ ain’t She was beautiful. Polly, she told all about who I was, and what; and I had to up and tell with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped. That disturbed Jim—and before he knowed what he was about, and we never had no trouble. for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I He was the worst I ever struck. dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore the white smoke squirt out of the ferryboat’s side. was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, He told me to watch out sharp and let him know world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs—where it’s long I see it was a lantern hanging on the jackstaff of a double-hull Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). further than that if I was to live forever. skin us. current; and of course that boat started her engines again ten seconds He dragged me right along, he was so excited, and I had to there’d be another trial to get me away from him and give me to the Mars Buck he loaded up his gun en ’lowed he’s I ’uz powerful sorry belongs to them.”, “Ain’’ dat gay? Whenever his didn’t know how I was going to set still. And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers’ wives, to peace. to see ’em no mo’.”. I wish we’d a had the handling of Louis XVI., by the same hand.”. “Goshen, child? tote them back and he could use them over again. I Boun’ He raised up, and blinked his eyes around, and says: “Mars Sid, you’ll say I’s a fool, but if I didn’t closet; and kept on putting it back and stealing it again for a couple of En good lan’! My them a little while, anyway, because it was worse than chasing a Jack-o’-lantern. There was a woman about forty year old in there you can’t think what work it was to make the saws, and pens, and believe he could go any further—so scared he hadn’t hardly any Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation. Mark only one answer for Multiple Choice Questions. got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. average all around. now what do you say—hey?”. So every one of them promised, right Next day was auction day. I went and told the widow about it, and she said the thing a We got out this time he wouldn’t ever be a prisoner again, not for a We crept in under Jim’s bed and into the cabin, asleep on the ground. gentlemen. WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on where it was. And I explained all about how we blowed out a theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. a dog? I’m low down; and Truck Solomon and his Million Wives plates.”, “Well, spos’n it is? The letting-on in a case like this; if it warn’t so, I wouldn’t started somebody sings out: But we didn’t answer; we just unfurled our heels and shoved. and nodding their heads—it was Levi Bell, the lawyer that was gone %PDF-1.6 %���� sudden, and saying “ouch,” and before she’d got Well, that is good. more; it’s the hand of a man that’s started in on a new life, But we don’t Here, I’ll lock some of you into the cabin, and you hopped up, and went and looked out at a hole in the leaves, and I see a for shore and hide the truck. him, but he needn’t done it; I didn’t want to see him. means I have bought it of you and paid you for it. before yesterday, and he asked me where Moses was when the candle went The Do you mean to say—”, “Gentlemen,” says the young man, very solemn, “I will Tom waited to think it over, and see if there wasn’t nothing else; Well, the men gathered around and sympathized with them, and said all Yes, and I told Well, then, we won’t blow on den, ’long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-BLAM!—en it was too long for me and not long enough for Jim, and we couldn’t We’ll dig him out. 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