down on his blankets by and by; but luck didn’t run my way. He didn’t go sound asleep, but was
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said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit
him on the cheek–but I couldn’t see no snakes. He started and run round and round the cabin,
hollering “Take him off! take him off! he’s biting me on the neck!” I never see a man look so wild
in the eyes. Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over
wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his
hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him. He wore out by and by, and laid
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“Tramp–tramp–tramp; that’s the dead; tramp–tramp–tramp; they’re coming after me; but I won’t
go. Oh, they’re here! don’t touch me– don’t! hands off–they’re cold; let go. Oh, let a poor devil
alone!”
Then he went down on all fours and crawled off, begging them to let him alone, and he rolled
himself up in his blanket and wallowed in under the old pine table, still a-begging; and then he
went to crying. I could hear him through the blanket.
By and by he rolled out and jumped up on his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me.
He chased me round and round the place with a clasp-knife, calling me the Angel of Death, and
saying he would kill me, and then I couldn’t come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was
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lightning, and saved myself. Pretty soon he was all tired out, and dropped down with his back

“Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there
from Ohio–a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see,
too,buy mesos, and the shiniest hat; and there ain’t a man in that town that’s got as fine clothes as what he
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talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain’t the wust. They said he could
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was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but
when they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out.
I says I’ll never vote agin. Them’s the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may
rot for all me –I’ll never vote agin as long as I live. And to see the cool way of that nigger–why,
he wouldn’t a give me the road if I hadn’t shoved him out o’ the way. I says to the people, why ain’t
this nigger put up at auction and sold?–that’s what I want to know. And what do you reckon they
said? Why, they said he couldn’t be sold till he’d been in the State six months, and he hadn’t been
there that long yet. There, now–that’s a specimen. They call that a govment that can’t sell a free
nigger till he’s been in the State six months. Here’s a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets
on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet’s got to set stock-still for six whole months
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head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all
the hottest kind of language–mostly hove at the nigger and the govment, though he give the tub
some, too, all along, here and there. He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and
then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left
foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick. But it warn’t good judgment, because that
was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so now he raised a
howl that fairly made a body’s hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled there, and held
his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous. He said so his
own self afterwards. He had heard old Sowberry Hagan in his best days, and he said it laid over
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After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one
delirium tremens. That was always his word. I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour,
and then I would steal the key, or saw myself out, one or t’other. He drank and drank, and tumbled
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down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it all over, and I reckoned I would walk off with the
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and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn’t ever find me any more. I judged I
would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would. I got so full
of it I didn’t notice how long I was staying till the old man hollered and asked me whether I was
asleep or drownded.
I got the things all up to the cabin, and then it was about dark. While I was cooking supper the old
man took a swig or two and got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again. He had been drunk
over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought
he was Adam–he was just all mud. Whenever his liquor begun to work he most always went for
the govment, this time he says:
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worth six thousand dollars and up’ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets
him go round in clothes that ain’t fitten for a hog. They call that govment! A man can’t get his
rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country for good
and all. Yes, and I TOLD ‘em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face. Lots of ‘em heard me, and can
tell what I said. Says I, for two cents I’d leave the blamed country and never come a-near it agin.
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Them’s the very words. I says look at my hat–if you call it a hat–but the lid raises up and the rest
of it goes down till it’s below my chin, and then it ain’t rightly a hat at all, but more like my head
was shoved up through a jint o’ stove-pipe. Look at it, says I– such a hat for me to wear–one of
the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights.

at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the
clapboards of the roof. I greased it up and went to work. There was an old horse-blanket nailed
against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through
the chinks and putting the candle out. I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to
work to saw a section of the big bottom log out–big enough to let me through. Well, it was a good
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was going wrong. His lawyer said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they
ever got started on the trial; but then there was ways to put it off a long time, and Judge Thatcher
knowed how to do it. And he said people allowed there’d be another trial to get me away from him
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any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable
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of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book
and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went back and set

at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the
clapboards of the roof. I greased it up and went to work. There was an old horse-blanket nailed
against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through
the chinks and putting the candle out. I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to
work to saw a section of the big bottom log out–big enough to let me through. Well, it was a good
long job, but I was getting towards the end of it when I heard pap’s gun in the woods. I got rid of
the signs of my work, and dropped the blanket and hid my saw, and pretty soon pap come in.
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might hunt till they dropped and they couldn’t find me. That made me pretty uneasy again, but
only for a minute; I reckoned I wouldn’t stay on hand till he got that chance.
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and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went back and set

you couldn’t find it if you didn’t know where it was.
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and he always locked the door and put the key under his head nights. He had a gun which he had
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locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for
whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time,runescape power leveling, and licked me. The widow she
found out where I was by and by, and she sent a man over to try to get hold of me; but pap drove
him off with the gun, and it warn’t long after that till I was used to being where I was, and liked
it–all but the cowhide part.
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nor study. Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t
see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widow’s, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate,
and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be forever bothering over a book, and have old
Miss Watson pecking at you all the time. I didn’t want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing,
because the widow didn’t like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn’t no objections. It
was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around.
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get out of that cabin many a time, but I couldn’t find no way. There warn’t a window to it big
enough for a dog to get through. I couldn’t get up the chimbly; it was too narrow. The door was
thick, solid oak slabs. Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin when he
was away; I reckon I had hunted the place over as much as a hundred times; well, I was most all
the time at it, because it was about the only way to put in the time. But this time I found something

had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler,buy aoc gold, and rolled off
the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found
him after sun-up. And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings
before they could navigate it.
The judge he felt kind of sore. He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a
shotgun, maybe,rs money, but he didn’t know no other way.
CHAPTER VI.
WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in
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or outrun him most of the time. I didn’t want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I’d go
now to spite pap. That law trial was a slow business–appeared like they warn’t ever going to get
started on it; so every now and then I’d borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to
keep from getting a cowhiding. Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got
drunk he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed. He was just
suited–this kind of thing was right in his line.
He got to hanging around the widow’s too much and so she told him at last that if he didn’t quit
using around there she would make trouble for him. Well, WASN’T he mad? He said he would
show who was Huck Finn’s boss. So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me,
and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it
was woody and there warn’t no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick

didn’t raise some money for him. I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it
and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he
kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they
had him before court, and jailed him again for a week. But he said HE was satisfied; said he was
boss of his son, and he’d make it warm for HIM.
When he got out the new judge said he was a-going to make a man of him. So he took him to his
own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper
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and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him. The judge said he could hug
him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he’d been a man that had
always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it. The old man said that what a
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So they shook it, one after the other, all around, and cried. The judge’s wife she kissed it. Then the
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room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and
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“All right. I’ll ask him; and I’ll make him pungle, too, or I’ll know the reason why. Say, how much
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“I hain’t got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher; he’ll tell you the same.”