1885+THE+ADVENTURES+OF+HUCKLEBERRY+FINN+by+Mark+Twain

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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. By Order of the Author Per G. G., Chief Ordnance EXPLANATORY In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary "Pike-County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with ** these ** ** several ** forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that ** all ** ** these ** characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. The Author CHAPTER ONE Now the way that the book winds up, is this: Tom and ** me ** found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made ** us ** rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece- ** all ** gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher, ** he ** took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched ** us ** a dollar a day apiece, ** all ** the year round- more than a 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 ** ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into ** my ** old rags, and ** my ** sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer, ** he ** hunted ** me ** up and said ** he ** was going to start a band of robbers and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. The widow ** she ** cried over ** me **, and called ** me ** a poor lost lamb, and ** she ** called ** me ** a lot of ** other ** names, too, but ** she ** never meant no harm by it. ** She ** put ** me ** in ** them ** new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel ** all ** cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and ** you ** had to come to time. When ** you ** got to the table** you ** couldn't go right to eating, but ** you ** had to wait for the widow to tuck down ** her ** head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there wasn't really anything the matter with ** them **. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. After supper ** she ** got out ** her ** book and learned ** me ** about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out ** all ** about ** him **; but by-and-by ** she ** let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about ** him **; because I don't take no stock in dead people. Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let ** me **. But ** she ** wouldn't. ** She ** said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it ** any ** more. That is just the way with ** some ** people. ** They ** get down on the thing when ** they ** don't know nothing about it. Here ** she ** was a bothering about Moses, which was no kin to ** her **, and no use to anybody, 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. Now ** she ** had got a start, and ** she ** went on and told ** me ** ** all ** about the good place. ** She ** said ** all ** 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 considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted ** him ** and** me ** to be together. Miss Watson ** she ** kept pecking at ** me **, and it got tiresome and lonesome. By-and-by ** they ** fetched the niggers in and had prayers, and then everybody was off to bed. I went up to ** my ** room with a piece of candle and put it on the table. Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying 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 **. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on ** its ** mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in ** its ** grave and has to go about that way ** every ** night grieving. I got so down-hearted and scared, I did wish I had** some ** company. Pretty soon a spider went crawling up ** my ** shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was ** all ** shriveled up. I didn't need anybody to tell ** me ** that was an awful bad sign and would fetch ** me ** ** some ** bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of ** me **. I got up and turned around in ** my ** tracks three times and crossed ** my ** breast** every ** time; and then I tied up a little lock of ** my ** hair with a thread to keep witches away. But I hadn't no confidence. ** You ** do that when ** you **'ve lost a horse-shoe that ** you **'ve found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was** any ** way to keep off bad luck when ** you **'d killed a spider. I set down again, a shaking ** all ** over, and got out ** my ** pipe for a smoke; for the house was ** all ** as still as death, now, and so the widow wouldn't know. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom- boom- boom-twelve licks- and ** all ** still again- stiller than ever. Pretty soon I heard a twig snap, down in the dark amongst the trees- something was a stirring. I set still and listened. Directly I could just barely hear a "** me **-yow! ** me **-yow!" down there. That was good! Says I, "** me **-yow! ** me **-yow!" as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window onto the shed. Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in amongst the trees, and sure enough there was Tom Sawyer waiting for ** me **.
 * 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. There was things which ** he ** stretched, but mainly ** he **told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or ** another **, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly- Tom's Aunt Polly, ** she ** is- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas, is ** all ** told about in that book- which is mostly a true book; with ** some ** stretchers, as I said before.
 * Her ** sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with ** her **, and took a set at ** me ** now, with a spelling-book. ** She ** worked ** me ** middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made ** her ** ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put ** your ** feet up there, Huckleberry"; and "don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry- set up straight"; and pretty soon ** she ** would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry- why don't ** you ** try to behave?" Then ** she ** told ** me ** ** all ** about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. ** She ** got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. ** All ** I wanted was to go somewheres; ** all ** I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. ** She ** said it was wicked to say what I said; said ** she ** wouldn't say it for the whole world; ** she ** was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where ** she ** was going, so I made up ** my ** mind I wouldn't try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good.

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CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER TWO** We ** went ** tip-toeing ** along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape ** our ** heads. When ** we ** was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. ** We **scrouched down and laid still. Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; ** we ** could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched ** his ** neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: "Who dah?" He listened some more; then he come ** tip-toeing ** down and stood right between us; ** we ** could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and ** we ** all there so close together. There was a place on my ankle that got to itching; but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders. Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch. Well, I've noticed that thing plenty of times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy- if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. Pretty soon Jim says: "Say- who is you? What is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I knows what I's gwyne to do. I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin." So he set down on the ground betwixt me and Tom. He leaned ** his ** back up against a tree, and stretched ** his ** legs out till ** one ** of them most touched ** one ** of ** mine **. My nose begun to itch. It itched till the tears come into my eyes. But I dasn't scratch. Then it begun to itch on the inside. Next I got to itching underneath. I didn't know how I was going to set still. This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that. I was itching in eleven different places now. I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try. Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore- and then I was pretty soon comfortable again. Tom he made a sign to me- kind of a little noise with ** his ** mouth- and ** we ** went creeping away on ** our ** hands and knees. When ** we **was ten foot off, Tom whispered to me and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun; but I said no; he might wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in. Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. I didn't want him to try. I said Jim might wake up and come. But Tom wanted to resk it; so ** we ** slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay. Then ** we ** got out, and I was in a sweat to get away; but nothing would do Tom but he must crawl to where Jim was, on ** his ** hands and knees, and play something on him. I waited, and it seemed a good while, everything was so still and lonesome. As soon as Tom was back, ** we ** cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by-and-by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of ** his ** head and hung it on the limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn't wake. Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again and hung ** his ** hat on a limb to show who done it. And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and after that, ** every ** time he told it he spread it more and more, till by-and-by he said they rode him over the world, and tired him most to death, and ** his ** back was all over saddle-boils. Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other niggers. Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that country. Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, ** same ** as if he was a wonder. Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but whenever ** one ** was talking and letting on to know all about such things, Jim would happen in and say, "Hm! What you know 'bout witches?" and that nigger was corked up and had to take a back seat. Jim always kept that five-center piece around ** his ** neck with a string and said it was a charm the devil give to him with ** his **own hands and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to, just by saying something to it; but he never told what it was he said to it. Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five-center piece; but they wouldn't touch it, because the devil had had ** his ** hands on it. Jim was most ruined, for a servant, because he got so stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches. Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill-top, ** we ** looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, may be; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand. ** We ** went down the hill and found Jo Harper, and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard. So ** we ** unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore. "Now ** we **'ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write** his ** name in blood." Everybody was willing. So Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read it. It swore ** every ** boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and ** his ** family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band. And nobody that didn't belong to the band could use that mark, and if he did he must be sued; and if he done it again he must be killed. And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have ** his ** throat cut, and then have ** his ** carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and ** his ** name blotted off the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot, forever. Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of ** his ** own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate books, and robber books, and ** every ** gang that was high-toned had it. Some thought it would be good to kill the families of boys that told the secrets. Tom said it was a good idea, so he took a pencil and wrote it in. Then Ben Rogers says: "Here's Huck ** Finn **, he hain't got no family- what you going to do 'bout him?" "Well, hain't he got a father?" says Tom Sawyer. "Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him, these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more." They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said ** every ** boy must have a family or somebody to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others. Well, nobody could think of anything to do- everybody was stumped, and set still. I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson- they could kill her. Everybody said: "Oh, she'll do, she'll do. That's all right. Huck can come in." Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with, and I made my mark on the paper. "Now," says Ben Rogers, "what's the line of business of this Gang?" "Nothing only robbery and murder," Tom said. "But who are ** we ** going to rob? houses- or cattle- or-" "Stuff! stealing cattle and such things ain't robbery, it's burglary," says Tom Sawyer. "** We ** ain't burglars. That ain't no sort of style.** We ** are highwaymen. ** We ** stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money." "Must ** we ** always kill the people?" "Oh, certainly. It's best. Some authorities think different, but mostly it's considered best to kill them. Except some that you bring to the cave here and keep them till they're ransomed." "Ransomed? What's that?" "I don't know. But that's what they do. I've seen it in books; and so of course that's what ** we **'ve got to do." "But how can ** we ** do it if ** we ** don't know what it is?" "Why blame it all, ** we **'ve to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?" "Oh, that's all very fine to say, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed if ** we ** don't know how to do it to them? that's the thing I want to get at. Now what do you reckon it is?" "Well I don't know. But per'aps if ** we ** keep them till they're ransomed, it means that ** we ** keep them till they're dead." "Now, that's something like. That'll answer. Why couldn't you said that before? ** We **'ll keep them till they're ransomed to death- and a bothersome lot they'll be, too, eating up everything and always trying to get loose." "How you talk, Ben Rogers. How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?" "A guard. Well, that is good. So somebody's got to set up all night and never get any sleep, just so as to watch them. I think that's foolishness. Why can't a body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?" "Because it ain't in the books- that's why. Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular, or don't you?- that's the idea. Don't you reckon that the people that made the books knows what's the correct thing to do? Do you reckon you can learn 'em anything? Not by a good deal. No, sir, ** we **'ll just go on and ransom them in the regular way." "All right. I don't mind; but I say it's a fool way, anyhow. Say- do ** we ** kill the women, too?" "Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill the women? No- nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by-and-by they fall in love with you and never want to go home any more." "Well, if that's the way, I'm agreed, but I don't take no stock in it. Mighty soon ** we **'ll have the cave so cluttered up with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed, that they won't be no place for the robbers. But go ahead, I ain't got nothing to say." Little Tommy Barnes was asleep, now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and said he wanted to go home to ** his **ma, and didn't want to be a robber any more. So they all made fun of him, and called him cry-baby, and that made him mad, and he said he would go straight and tell all the secrets. But Tom give him five cents to keep quiet, and said ** we ** would all go home and meet next week and rob somebody and kill some people. Ben Rogers said he couldn't get out much, only Sundays, and so he wanted to begin next Sunday; but all the boys said it would be wicked to do it on Sunday, and that settled the thing. They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then ** we **elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home. I clumb up the shed and crept into my window just before day was breaking. My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired.
 * We ** went to a clump of bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of the bushes. Then ** we ** lit the candles and crawled in on ** our ** hands and knees. ** We ** went about two hundred yards, and then the cave opened up. Tom poked about amongst the passages and pretty soon ducked under a wall where you wouldn't a noticed that there was a hole. ** We ** went along a narrow place and got into a kind of room, all damp and sweaty and cold, and there** we ** stopped. Tom says:

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