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much as they want; everything belongs to them.”
“AIN’ dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?”
“THEY don’t do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around.”
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But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking–just hawking and sp–Sh!–d’ you hear a
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woods, even if the sun was blazing outside. We went winding in and out amongst the trees, and
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old broken-down tree you could see rabbits and snakes and such things; and when the island had
been overflowed a day or two they got so tame, on account of being hungry, that you could paddle
right up and put your hand on them if you wanted to; but not the snakes and turtles–they would
slide off in the water. The ridge our cavern was in was full of them. We could a had pets enough if
we’d wanted them.
One night we catched a little section of a lumber raft–nice pine planks. It was twelve foot wide
and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches–a solid,
level floor. We could see saw-logs go by in the daylight sometimes, but we let them go; we didn’t
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and got aboard– clumb in at an upstairs window. But it was too dark to see yet, so we made the
canoe fast and set in her to wait for daylight.
The light begun to come before we got to the foot of the island. Then we looked in at the window.
We could make out a bed, and a table, and two old chairs, and lots of things around about on the
floor, and there was clothes hanging against the wall. There was something laying on the floor in
the far corner that looked like a man. So Jim says:
“Hello, you!”
But it didn’t budge. So I hollered again, and then Jim says:

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“Well, I did. I said I wouldn’t, and I’ll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a
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“Well, you see, it ‘uz dis way. Ole missus–dat’s Miss Watson–she pecks on me all de time, en
treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn’ sell me down to Orleans. But I noticed dey
wuz a nigger trader roun’ de place considable lately, en I begin to git oneasy. Well, one night I
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me, en it ‘uz sich a big stack o’ money she couldn’ resis’. De widder she try to git her to say she
wouldn’ do it, but I never waited to hear de res’. I lit out mighty quick, I tell you.
“I tuck out en shin down de hill, en ’spec to steal a skift ‘long de sho’ som’ers ‘bove de town,rs money, but
dey wuz people a-stirring yit, so I hid in de ole tumble-down cooper-shop on de bank to wait for
everybody to go ‘way. Well, I wuz dah all night. Dey wuz somebody roun’ all de time. ‘Long ’bout
six in de mawnin’ skifts begin to go by, en ’bout eight er nine every skift dat went ‘long wuz talkin’
’bout how yo’ pap come over to de town en say you’s killed. Dese las’ skifts wuz full o’ ladies en
genlmen a-goin’ over for to see de place. Sometimes dey’d pull up at de sho’ en take a res’ b’fo’ dey
started acrost, so by de talk I got to know all ’bout de killin’. I ‘uz powerful sorry you’s killed,
Huck, but I ain’t no mo’ now.
“I laid dah under de shavin’s all day. I ‘uz hungry, but I warn’t afeard; bekase I knowed ole missus
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dey wouldn’ miss me tell arter dark in de evenin’. De yuther servants wouldn’ miss me, kase dey’d
shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks ‘uz out’n de way.
“Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went ’bout two mile er more to whah dey

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through the woods to see what I could find out. I hadn’t got far when I hear a man say:
“We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out. Let’s look around.”
I didn’t wait, but shoved out and paddled away easy. I tied up in the old place, and reckoned I
would sleep in the canoe.
I didn’t sleep much. I couldn’t, somehow, for thinking. And every time I waked up I thought
somebody had me by the neck. So the sleep didn’t do me no good. By and by I says to myself, I
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out or bust. Well, I felt better right off.
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So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along
down amongst the shadows. The moon was shining, and outside of the shadows it made it most as
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“Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there
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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
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Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old limber legs was taking him to, so he went
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
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After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one
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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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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
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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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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
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He got to hanging around the widow’s too much and so she told him at last that if he didn’t quit
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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
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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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