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Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 100 | “There; I reckon it’s all right. Come in.”
As soon as I was in the old gentleman he locked the door and barred it and bolted it, and told the young men to come in with their guns, and they all went in a big parlor that had a new rag carpet on the floor, and got together in a corner that was out of the range of the fron... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 101 | “Never mind, Buck, my boy,” says the old man, “you’ll have show enough, all in good time, don’t you fret about that. Go ’long with you now, and do as your mother told you.”
When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on. While I was at it he asked me what... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 102 | Cold corn-pone, cold corn-beef, butter and buttermilk—that is what they had for me down there, and there ain’t nothing better that ever I’ve come across yet. Buck and his ma and all of them smoked cob pipes, except the nigger woman, which was gone, and the two young women. They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talk... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 103 | I set it down, private, because somebody might want me to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it.
It was a mighty nice family, and 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... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 104 | This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted border all around. It come all the way from Philadelphia, they said. There was some books, too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table. One was a big family Bible full of pictures. One was... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 105 |
They had pictures hung on the walls—mainly Washingtons and Lafayettes, and battles, and Highland Marys, and one called “Signing the Declaration.” There was some that they called crayons, which one of the daughters which was dead made her own self when she was only fifteen years old. They was different from any picture... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 106 | This young girl kept a scrap-book when she was alive, and used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head. It was very good poetry. This is what she wrote about a boy by the name of Stephen Dowling Bots that fe... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 107 | Whilst I his fate do tell.
His soul did from this cold world fly
By falling down a well.
They got him out and emptied him;
Alas it was too late;
His spirit was gone for to sport aloft
In the realms of the good and great.
If Emmeline Grangerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 108 | Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. There was a little old piano, too, that had tin pans in it, I reckon, and nothing was ever so lovely as to hear the young l... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 109 | Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 110 | When him and the old lady come down in the morning all the family got up out of their chairs and give them good-day, and didn’t set down again till they had set down. Then Tom and Bob went to the sideboard where the decanter was, and mixed a glass of bitters and handed it to him, and he held it in his hand and waited t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 111 | There was another clan of aristocracy around there—five or six families—mostly of the name of Shepherdson. They was as high-toned and well born and rich and grand as the tribe of Grangerfords. The Shepherdsons and Grangerfords used the same steamboat landing, which was about two mile above our house; so sometimes when ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 112 | “Him? He never done nothing to me.”
“Well, then, what did you want to kill him for?”
“Why, nothing—only it’s on account of the feud.”
“What’s a feud?”
“Why, where was you raised? Don’t you know what a feud is?”
“Never heard of it before—tell me about it.”
“Well,” says Buck, “a feud is this way. A man has a quarrel with... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 113 | “Has anybody been killed this year, Buck?”
“Yes; we got one and they got one. ’Bout three months ago my cousin Bud, fourteen year old, was riding through the woods on t’other side of the river, and didn’t have no weapon with him, which was blame’ foolishness, and in a lonesome place he hears a horse a-coming behind him... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 114 | Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybo... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 115 | Says I to myself, something’s up; it ain’t natural for a girl to be in such a sweat about a Testament. So I give it a shake, and out drops a little piece of paper with “Half-past two” wrote on it with a pencil. I ransacked it, but couldn’t find anything else. I couldn’t make anything out of that, so I put the paper in ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 116 | “You shove right in dah jist a few steps, Mars Jawge; dah’s whah dey is. I’s seed ’m befo’; I don’t k’yer to see ’em no mo’.”
Then he slopped right along and went away, and pretty soon the trees hid him. I poked into the place a-ways and come to a little open patch as big as a bedroom all hung around with vines, and fo... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 117 | “What raft, Jim?”
“Our ole raf’.”
“You mean to say our old raft warn’t smashed all to flinders?”
“No, she warn’t. She was tore up a good deal—one en’ of her was; but dey warn’t no great harm done, on’y our traps was mos’ all los’. Ef we hadn’ dive’ so deep en swum so fur under water, en de night hadn’ ben so dark, en w... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 118 | “What’s it all about?”
Says he:
“Don’t you know, Mars Jawge?”
“No,” says I, “I don’t.”
“Well, den, Miss Sophia’s run off! ’deed she has. She run off in de night some time—nobody don’t know jis’ when; run off to get married to dat young Harney Shepherdson, you know—leastways, so dey ’spec. De fambly foun’ it out ’bout h... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 119 | By-and-by the men stopped cavorting around and yelling. They started riding towards the store; then up gets one of the boys, draws a steady bead over the wood-rank, and drops one of them out of his saddle. All the men jumped off of their horses and grabbed the hurt one and started to carry him to the store; and that mi... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 120 | All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! goes three or four guns—the men had slipped around through the woods and come in from behind without their horses! The boys jumped for the river—both of them hurt—and as they swum down the current the men run along the bank shooting at them and singing out, “Kill them, kill them!” It ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 121 | “Good lan’! is dat you, honey? Doan’ make no noise.”
It was Jim’s voice—nothing ever sounded so good before. I run along the bank a piece and got aboard, and Jim he grabbed me and hugged me, he was so glad to see me. He says:
“Laws bless you, chile, I ’uz right down sho’ you’s dead agin. Jack’s been heah; he say he rec... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 122 | Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put in the time. It was a monstrous big river down there—sometimes a mile and a half wide; we run nights, and laid up and hid daytimes; soon as night was most gone we stopped navig... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 123 | A little smoke couldn’t be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by-and-by lazy off to sleep. Wake up by-and-by, and look to see what done it, and maybe see a steamboat coughing along... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 124 | Sometimes we’d have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark—which was a candle in a cabin window; and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two—on a raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song c... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 125 | One morning about daybreak I found a canoe and crossed over a chute to the main shore—it was only two hundred yards—and paddled about a mile up a crick amongst the cypress woods, to see if I couldn’t get some berries. Just as I was passing a place where a kind of a cowpath crossed the crick, here comes a couple of men ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 126 | The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery. After breakfast we all laid off and talked, and the first thing that come out was that these chaps didn’t know one another.
“What got you into trouble?” says the baldhead to t’other chap.
“Well, I’d been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth—... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 127 | Nobody never said anything for a while; then the young man hove a sigh and says:
“Alas!”
“What ’re you alassin’ about?” says the baldhead.
“To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such company.” And he begun to wipe the corner of his eye with a rag.
“Dern your skin, ain’t the c... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 128 | Jim pitied him ever so much, and so did I. We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn’t much use, he couldn’t be much comforted; said if we was a mind to acknowledge him, that would do him more good than most anything else; so we said we would, if he would tell us how. He said we ought to bow when we spoke to him, an... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 129 | “Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude. Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin’, exiled, trampled-on, and sufferin’ rightful King of France.”
Well, he cried and took on so that me and Jim didn’t know hard... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 130 | It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it’s the best way; then you don’t have no quarrels, and don’t get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes,... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 131 | The duke says:
“Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to. I’ll think the thing over—I’ll invent a plan that’ll fix it. We’ll let it alone for to-day, because of course we don’t want to go by that town yonder in daylight—it mightn’t be healthy.”
Towards night it begun to darken up an... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 132 | “’Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression. Misfortune has broken my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; ’tis my fate. I am alone in the world—let me suffer; I can bear it.”
We got away as soon as it was good and dark. The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 133 | I had the middle watch, you know, but I was pretty sleepy by that time, so Jim he said he would stand the first half of it for me; he was always mighty good that way, Jim was. I crawled into the wigwam, but the king and the duke had their legs sprawled around so there warn’t no show for me; so I laid outside—I didn’t m... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 134 | “No,” says the king.
“You shall, then, before you’re three days older, Fallen Grandeur,” says the duke. “The first good town we come to we’ll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III. and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. How does that strike you?”
“I’m in, up to the hub, for anything that will pay, Bilge... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 135 | When we got there there warn’t nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly dead and still, like Sunday. We found a sick nigger sunning himself in a back yard, and he said everybody that warn’t too young or too sick or too old was gone to camp-meeting, about two mile back in the woods. The king got the directions, and... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 136 | The first shed we come to the preacher was lining out a hymn. He lined out two lines, everybody sung it, and it was kind of grand to hear it, there was so many of them and they done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them to sing—and so on. The people woke up more and more, and sung louder and lou... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 137 | Well, the first I knowed the king got a-going, and you could hear him over everybody; and next he went a-charging up on to the platform, and the preacher he begged him to speak to the people, and he done it. He told them he was a pirate—been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean—and his crew was thinned out... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 138 | So the king went all through the crowd with his hat swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls, with the tears running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let them ki... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 139 | The duke was thinking he’d been doing pretty well till the king come to show up, but after that he didn’t think so so much. He had set up and printed off two little jobs for farmers in that printing-office—horse bills—and took the money, four dollars. And he had got in ten dollars’ worth of advertisements for the paper... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 140 | We all said the duke was pretty smart, and there couldn’t be no trouble about running daytimes. We judged we could make miles enough that night to get out of the reach of the powwow we reckoned the duke’s work in the printing office was going to make in that little town; then we could boom right along if we wanted to.
... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 141 | Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that the duke made out of oak laths, and begun to practice the sword fight—the duke called himself Richard III.; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was grand to see. But by-and-by the king tripped and fell overboard, and after that they took a rest, and ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 142 | 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.
There’s the respect must give us pause:
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 143 | Shaksperean Revival!!!
Wonderful Attraction!
For One Night Only!
The world renowned tragedians,
David Garrick the younger, of Drury Lane Theatre, London,
and
Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre,
Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the
Royal Continental Theatres, in their sublime
Shakspe... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 144 | “Gimme a chaw ’v tobacker, Hank.”
“Cain’t; I hain’t got but one chaw left. Ask Bill.”
Maybe Bill he gives him a chaw; maybe he lies and says he ain’t got none. Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own. They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 145 | “Here, gimme the chaw, and you take the plug.”
All the streets and lanes was just mud; they warn’t nothing else but mud—mud as black as tar and nigh about a foot deep in some places, and two or three inches deep in all the places. The hogs loafed and grunted around everywheres. You’d see a muddy sow and a litter of pig... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 146 | “Here comes old Boggs!—in from the country for his little old monthly drunk; here he comes, boys!”
All the loafers looked glad; I reckoned they was used to having fun out of Boggs. One of them says:
“Wonder who he’s a-gwyne to chaw up this time. If he’d a-chawed up all the men he’s ben a-gwyne to chaw up in the last tw... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 147 | “I’m tired of this, but I’ll endure it till one o’clock. Till one o’clock, mind—no longer. If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can’t travel so far but I will find you.”
Then he turns and goes in. The crowd looked mighty sober; nobody stirred, and there warn’t no more laughing. Boggs rode off... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 148 | “Boggs!”
I looked over there to see who said it, and it was that Colonel Sherburn. He was standing perfectly still in the street, and had a pistol raised in his right hand—not aiming it, but holding it out with the barrel tilted up towards the sky. The same second I see a young girl coming on the run, and two men with ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 149 | Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look, but people that had the places wouldn’t give them up, and folks behind them was saying all the time, “Say, now, you’ve looked enough, you fellows; ’tain’t right and ’tain’t fair for you to s... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 150 | They swarmed up in front of Sherburn’s palings as thick as they could jam together, and you couldn’t hear yourself think for the noise. It was a little twenty-foot yard. Some sung out “Tear down the fence! tear down the fence!” Then there was a racket of ripping and tearing and smashing, and down she goes, and the fron... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 151 | “So they always acquit; and then a man goes in the night, with a hundred masked cowards at his back and lynches the rascal. Your mistake is, that you didn’t bring a man with you; that’s one mistake, and the other is that you didn’t come in the dark and fetch your masks. You brought part of a man—Buck Harkness, there—an... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 152 | It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable—there must a been twenty of them—an... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 153 |
Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people. The ring-master couldn’t ever say a word to him but he was back at him quick as a wink with the funniest things a body ever said; and how he ever could think of so many of them, and ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 154 | Then the ring-master he see how he had been fooled, and he was the sickest ring-master you ever see, I reckon. Why, it was one of his own men! He had got up that joke all out of his own head, and never let on to nobody. Well, I felt sheepish enough to be took in so, but I wouldn’t a been in that ring-master’s place, no... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 155 | Of the London and Continental
Theatres,
In their Thrilling Tragedy of
THE KING’S CAMELOPARD
OR
THE ROYAL NONESUCH!!!
Admission 50 cents.
Then at the bottom was the biggest line of all—which said:
LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED.
“There,” says he, “if that line don’t fetch them, I dont know Arkansaw!”
Well, all day him... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 156 | “What, is it over? Is that all?”
The duke says yes. Then there was a fine time. Everybody sings out, “Sold!” and rose up mad, and was a-going for that stage and them tragedians. But a big, fine looking man jumps up on a bench and shouts:
“Hold on! Just a word, gentlemen.” They stopped to listen. “We are sold—mighty bad... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 157 | “Walk fast now till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you!”
I done it, and he done the same. We struck the raft at the same time, and in less than two seconds we was gliding down stream, all dark and still, and edging towards the middle of the river, nobody saying a wor... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 158 |
“You read about them once—you’ll see. Look at Henry the Eight; this’n ’s a Sunday-school Superintendent to him. And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 159 | “But dis one do smell so like de nation, Huck.”
“Well, they all do, Jim. We can’t help the way a king smells; history don’t tell no way.”
“Now de duke, he’s a tolerble likely man in some ways.”
“Yes, a duke’s different. But not very different. This one’s a middling hard lot for a duke. When he’s drunk, there ain’t no n... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 160 | “‘Shet de do’.’
“She never done it; jis’ stood dah, kiner smilin’ up at me. It make me mad; en I says agin, mighty loud, I says:
“‘Doan’ you hear me?—shet de do’!’
“She jis stood de same way, kiner smilin’ up. I was a-bilin’! I says:
“‘I lay I make you mine!’
“En wid dat I fetch’ her a slap side de head dat sont her a-... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 161 | He was uncommon bright, the duke was, and he soon struck it. He dressed Jim up in King Lear’s outfit—it was a long curtain-calico gown, and a white horse-hair wig and whiskers; and then he took his theater paint and painted Jim’s face and hands and ears and neck all over a dead, dull, solid blue, like a man that’s been... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 162 | These rapscallions wanted to try the Nonesuch again, because there was so much money in it, but they judged it wouldn’t be safe, because maybe the news might a worked along down by this time. They couldn’t hit no project that suited exactly; so at last the duke said he reckoned he’d lay off and work his brains an hour ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 163 | “Run her nose in shore,” says the king. I done it. “Wher’ you bound for, young man?”
“For the steamboat; going to Orleans.”
“Git aboard,” says the king. “Hold on a minute, my servant ’ll he’p you with them bags. Jump out and he’p the gentleman, Adolphus”—meaning me, I see.
I done so, and then we all three started on ag... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 164 | “Did anybody send ’em word?”
“Oh, yes; a month or two ago, when Peter was first took; because Peter said then that he sorter felt like he warn’t going to get well this time. You see, he was pretty old, and George’s g’yirls was too young to be much company for him, except Mary Jane, the red-headed one; and so he was kin... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 165 | “What did you want to walk all the way up to the steamboat for?”
“Because she’s a big Orleans boat, and I was afeard she mightn’t stop there. When they’re deep they won’t stop for a hail. A Cincinnati boat will, but this is a St. Louis one.”
“Was Peter Wilks well off?”
“Oh, yes, pretty well off. He had houses and land,... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 166 | “How are you on the deef and dumb, Bilgewater?”
The duke said, leave him alone for that; said he had played a deef and dumb person on the histronic boards. So then they waited for a steamboat.
About the middle of the afternoon a couple of little boats come along, but they didn’t come from high enough up the river; but ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 167 | The news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was like a soldier march. The windows and dooryards was full; and every minut... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 168 | Then the king he hunched the duke private—I see him do it—and then he looked around and see the coffin, over in the corner on two chairs; so then him and the duke, with a hand across each other’s shoulder, and t’other hand to their eyes, walked slow and solemn over there, everybody dropping back to give them room, and ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 169 | And the minute the words were out of his mouth somebody over in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with all their might, and it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out. Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things s... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 170 | Then Mary Jane she fetched the letter her father left behind, and the king he read it out loud and cried over it. It give the dwelling-house and three thousand dollars, gold, to the girls; and it give the tanyard (which was doing a good business), along with some other houses and land (worth about seven thousand), and ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 171 | “Hold on,” says the duke. “Le’s make up the deffisit,” and he begun to haul out yaller-boys out of his pocket.
“It’s a most amaz’n’ good idea, duke—you have got a rattlin’ clever head on you,” says the king. “Blest if the old Nonesuch ain’t a heppin’ us out agin,” and he begun to haul out yaller-jackets and stack them ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 172 | “Friends all, my poor brother that lays yonder has done generous by them that’s left behind in the vale of sorrers. He has done generous by these yer poor little lambs that he loved and sheltered, and that’s left fatherless and motherless. Yes, and we that knowed him knows that he would a done more generous by ’em if h... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 173 | “—they bein’ partickler friends o’ the diseased. That’s why they’re invited here this evenin’; but tomorrow we want all to come—everybody; for he respected everybody, he liked everybody, and so it’s fitten that his funeral orgies sh’d be public.”
And so he went a-mooning on and on, liking to hear himself talk, and ever... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 174 | “Is it my poor brother’s dear good friend and physician? I—”
“Keep your hands off of me!” says the doctor. “You talk like an Englishman, don’t you? It’s the worst imitation I ever heard. You Peter Wilks’s brother! You’re a fraud, that’s what you are!”
Well, how they all took on! They crowded around the doctor and tried... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 175 | “All right; I wash my hands of the matter. But I warn you all that a time ’s coming when you’re going to feel sick whenever you think of this day.” And away he went.
“All right, doctor,” says the king, kinder mocking him; “we’ll try and get ’em to send for you;” which made them all laugh, and they said it was a prime g... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 176 | And when it was all done me and the hare-lip had supper in the kitchen off of the leavings, whilst the others was helping the niggers clean up the things. The hare-lip she got to pumping me about England, and blest if I didn’t think the ice was getting mighty thin sometimes. She says:
“Did you ever see the king?”
“Who?... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 177 | “Do you go to church, too?”
“Yes—regular.”
“Where do you set?”
“Why, in our pew.”
“Whose pew?”
“Why, ourn—your Uncle Harvey’s.”
“His’n? What does he want with a pew?”
“Wants it to set in. What did you reckon he wanted with it?”
“Why, I thought he’d be in the pulpit.”
Rot him, I forgot he was a preacher. I see I was up ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 178 | “Honest injun, now, hain’t you been telling me a lot of lies?”
“Honest injun,” says I.
“None of it at all?”
“None of it at all. Not a lie in it,” says I.
“Lay your hand on this book and say it.”
I see it warn’t nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it. So then she looked a little better satisfied, ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 179 | “All right, then,” says the other girls; “you just ask his pardon.”
She done it, too; and she done it beautiful. She done it so beautiful it was good to hear; and I wished I could tell her a thousand lies, so she could do it again.
I says to myself, this is another one that I’m letting him rob her of her money. And whe... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 180 | So, thinks I, I’ll go and search them rooms. Upstairs the hall was dark, but I found the duke’s room, and started to paw around it with my hands; but I recollected it wouldn’t be much like the king to let anybody else take care of that money but his own self; so then I went to his room and begun to paw around there. Bu... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 181 | The duke he grumbled; said the bag of gold was enough, and he didn’t want to go no deeper—didn’t want to rob a lot of orphans of everything they had.
“Why, how you talk!” says the king. “We sha’n’t rob ’em of nothing at all but jest this money. The people that buys the property is the suff’rers; because as soon ’s it’s... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 182 | “Because Mary Jane ’ll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put ’em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it?”
“Your head’s level agin, duke,” says the king; and he comes a-fumbling under the ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 183 | So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn’t begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder.
I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right. There warn’t a sound anywheres. I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 184 | I slipped up to bed, feeling ruther blue, on accounts of the thing playing out that way after I had took so much trouble and run so much resk about it. Says I, if it could stay where it is, all right; because when we get down the river a hundred mile or two I could write back to Mary Jane, and she could dig him up agai... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 185 | When the place was packed full the undertaker he slid around in his black gloves with his softy soothering ways, putting on the last touches, and getting people and things all ship-shape and comfortable, and making no more sound than a cat. He never spoke; he moved people around, he squeezed in late ones, he opened up ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 186 | They had borrowed a melodeum—a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion. Then the Reverend Hobson opened up, slow and solemn, and begun t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 187 | Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long and tiresome; and then the king he shoved in and got off some of his usual rubbage, and at last the job was through, and the undertaker begun to sneak up on the coffin with his screw-driver. I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. But he never meddled a... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 188 | Well, blamed if the king didn’t bill the house and the niggers and all the property for auction straight off—sale two days after the funeral; but anybody could buy private beforehand if they wanted to.
So the next day after the funeral, along about noon-time, the girls’ joy got the first jolt. A couple of nigger trader... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 189 | “Stop and think.”
I studied awhile and see my chance; then I says:
“Well, I see the niggers go in there several times.”
Both of them gave a little jump, and looked like they hadn’t ever expected it, and then like they had. Then the duke says:
“What, all of them?”
“No—leastways, not all at once—that is, I don’t think I ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 190 | As they was starting down the ladder the duke he chuckles again, and says:
“Quick sales and small profits! It’s a good business—yes.”
The king snarls around on him and says:
“I was trying to do for the best in sellin’ ’em out so quick. If the profits has turned out to be none, lackin’ considable, and none to carry, is ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 191 | “But they will—and inside of two weeks—and I know it!” says I.
Laws, it was out before I could think! And before I could budge she throws her arms around my neck and told me to say it again, say it again, say it again!
I see I had spoke too sudden and said too much, and was in a close place. I asked her to let me think... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 192 | Then I come back and set down again, and says:
“Don’t you holler. Just set still and take it like a man. I got to tell the truth, and you want to brace up, Miss Mary, because it’s a bad kind, and going to be hard to take, but there ain’t no help for it. These uncles of yourn ain’t no uncles at all; they’re a couple of ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 193 | “Miss Mary Jane, I’ll tell you what we’ll do, and you won’t have to stay at Mr. Lothrop’s so long, nuther. How fur is it?”
“A little short of four miles—right out in the country, back here.”
“Well, that’ll answer. Now you go along out there, and lay low till nine or half-past to-night, and then get them to fetch you ho... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 194 | I judged we had got everything fixed about right now. So I says:
“Just let the auction go right along, and don’t worry. Nobody don’t have to pay for the things they buy till a whole day after the auction on accounts of the short notice, and they ain’t going out of this till they get that money; and the way we’ve fixed ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 195 | “Well, they’ve got that; and it makes me feel pretty silly to think how they got it.”
“No, you’re out, there. They hain’t got it.”
“Why, who’s got it?”
“I wish I knowed, but I don’t. I had it, because I stole it from them; and I stole it to give to you; and I know where I hid it, but I’m afraid it ain’t there no more. ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 196 | “Good-bye. I’m going to do everything just as you’ve told me; and if I don’t ever see you again, I sha’n’t ever forget you and I’ll think of you a many and a many a time, and I’ll pray for you, too!”—and she was gone.
Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she’d take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 197 | “Mumps.”
“Mumps your granny! They don’t set up with people that’s got the mumps.”
“They don’t, don’t they? You better bet they do with these mumps. These mumps is different. It’s a new kind, Miss Mary Jane said.”
“How’s it a new kind?”
“Because it’s mixed up with other things.”
“What other things?”
“Well, measles, and ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 198 | “Well, it’s awful, I think,” says the hare-lip. “I’ll go to Uncle Harvey and—”
“Oh, yes,” I says, “I would. Of course I would. I wouldn’t lose no time.”
“Well, why wouldn’t you?”
“Just look at it a minute, and maybe you can see. Hain’t your uncles obleegd to get along home to England as fast as they can? And do you rec... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 199 | “Why, you must mean the Apthorps, ain’t it?”
“Of course; bother them kind of names, a body can’t ever seem to remember them, half the time, somehow. Yes, she said, say she has run over for to ask the Apthorps to be sure and come to the auction and buy this house, because she allowed her uncle Peter would ruther they ha... |
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