Book Name stringclasses 100
values | Book ID int64 0 99 | Chunk ID int64 0 1.49k | Chunk stringlengths 26 30.5k |
|---|---|---|---|
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 200 | “Here’s your opposition line! here’s your two sets o’ heirs to old Peter Wilks—and you pays your money and you takes your choice!”
They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling. And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up. B... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 201 | So him and the new dummy started off; and the king he laughs, and blethers out:
“Broke his arm—very likely, ain’t it?—and very convenient, too, for a fraud that’s got to make signs, and ain’t learnt how. Lost their baggage! That’s mighty good!—and mighty ingenious—under the circumstances!”
So he laughed again; and so d... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 202 | It was nuts for the crowd, though maybe not for the king’s friends; so we all started. It was about sundown. The doctor he led me along by the hand, and was plenty kind enough, but he never let go my hand.
We all got in a big room in the hotel, and lit up some candles, and fetched in the new couple. First, the doctor s... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 203 | “Are you English, too?”
I says yes; and him and some others laughed, and said, “Stuff!”
Well, then they sailed in on the general investigation, and there we had it, up and down, hour in, hour out, and nobody never said a word about supper, nor ever seemed to think about it—and so they kept it up, and kept it up; and it... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 204 | “You and your brother please write a line or two and sign your names.”
The old gentleman wrote, but nobody couldn’t read it. The lawyer looked powerful astonished, and says:
“Well, it beats me”—and snaked a lot of old letters out of his pocket, and examined them, and then examined the old man’s writing, and then them a... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 205 | “Yes,” says somebody, “me and Ab Turner done it. We’re both here.”
Then the old man turns towards the king, and says:
“Perhaps this gentleman can tell me what was tattooed on his breast?”
Blamed if the king didn’t have to brace up mighty quick, or he’d a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 206 | “The whole bilin’ of ’m ’s frauds! Le’s duck ’em! le’s drown ’em! le’s ride ’em on a rail!” and everybody was whooping at once, and there was a rattling powwow. But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says:
“Gentlemen—gentlemen! Hear me just a word—just a single word—if you PLEASE! There’s one way yet—let’s... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 207 | When they got there they swarmed into the graveyard and washed over it like an overflow. And when they got to the grave they found they had about a hundred times as many shovels as they wanted, but nobody hadn’t thought to fetch a lantern. But they sailed into digging anyway by the flicker of the lightning, and sent a ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 208 | When I struck the town I see there warn’t nobody out in the storm, so I never hunted for no back streets, but humped it straight through the main one; and when I begun to get towards our house I aimed my eye and set it. No light there; the house all dark—which made me feel sorry and disappointed, I didn’t know why. But... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 209 | “Not now; have it for breakfast, have it for breakfast! Cut loose and let her slide!”
So in two seconds away we went a-sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother us. I had to skip around a bit, and jump up and crack my heels a few times—I... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 210 | “Leggo the boy, you old idiot! Would you a done any different? Did you inquire around for him when you got loose? I don’t remember it.”
So the king let go of me, and begun to cuss that town and everybody in it. But the duke says:
“You better a blame sight give yourself a good cussing, for you’re the one that’s entitled... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 211 | “Wait jest a minute, duke—answer me this one question, honest and fair; if you didn’t put the money there, say it, and I’ll b’lieve you, and take back everything I said.”
“You old scoundrel, I didn’t, and you know I didn’t. There, now!”
“Well, then, I b’lieve you. But answer me only jest this one more—now don’t git mad... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 212 | So the king sneaked into the wigwam and took to his bottle for comfort, and before long the duke tackled his bottle; and so in about a half an hour they was as thick as thieves again, and the tighter they got, the lovinger they got, and went off a-snoring in each other’s arms. They both got powerful mellow, but I notic... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 213 | And at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time. Jim and me got uneasy. We didn’t like the look of it. We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. We turned it over and over, and at last we made up ou... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 214 | So we stayed where we was. The duke he fretted and sweated around, and was in a mighty sour way. He scolded us for everything, and we couldn’t seem to do nothing right; he found fault with every little thing. Something was a-brewing, sure. I was good and glad when midday come and no king; we could have a change, anyway... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 215 | “Well,” he says, “you needn’t be afeard no more, becuz they’ve got him. He run off f’m down South, som’ers.”
“It’s a good job they got him.”
“Well, I reckon! There’s two hunderd dollars reward on him. It’s like picking up money out’n the road.”
“Yes, it is—and I could a had it if I’d been big enough; I see him first. W... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 216 | Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a slave, and so I’d better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 217 | It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn’t come. It was ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 218 | Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
HUCK FINN.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off,... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 219 | Then I set to thinking over how to get at it, and turned over some considerable many ways in my mind; and at last fixed up a plan that suited me. So then I took the bearings of a woody island that was down the river a piece, and as soon as it was fairly dark I crept out with my raft and went for it, and hid it there, a... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 220 | I says:
“Why, that’s just what I was going to ask your grace.”
Then he didn’t look so joyful, and says:
“What was your idea for asking me?” he says.
“Well,” I says, “when I see the king in that doggery yesterday I says to myself, we can’t get him home for hours, till he’s soberer; so I went a-loafing around town to put... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 221 | I had considerable money, so I give him ten cents, but begged him to spend it for something to eat, and give me some, because it was all the money I had, and I hadn’t had nothing to eat since yesterday. He never said nothing. The next minute he whirls on me and says:
“Do you reckon that nigger would blow on us? We’d sk... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 222 | That was the order I wanted, and that was the one I played for. I wanted to be left free to work my plans.
“So clear out,” he says; “and you can tell Mr. Foster whatever you want to. Maybe you can get him to believe that Jim is your nigger—some idiots don’t require documents—leastways I’ve heard there’s such down South... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 223 | Phelps’ was one of these little one-horse cotton plantations, and they all look alike. A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 224 | A nigger woman come tearing out of the kitchen with a rolling-pin in her hand, singing out, “Begone you Tige! you Spot! begone sah!” and she fetched first one and then another of them a clip and sent them howling, and then the rest followed; and the next second half of them come back, wagging their tails around me, and... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 225 | “Yes’m—she—”
“Don’t say yes’m—say Aunt Sally. Where’d she get aground?”
I didn’t rightly know what to say, because I didn’t know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down. But I go a good deal on instinct; and my instinct said she would be coming up—from down towards Orleans. That didn’t help me much, thoug... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 226 | It was kinder thin ice, but I says:
“The captain see me standing around, and told me I better have something to eat before I went ashore; so he took me in the texas to the officers’ lunch, and give me all I wanted.”
I was getting so uneasy I couldn’t listen good. I had my mind on the children all the time; I wanted to ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 227 | “Uneasy!” she says; “I’m ready to go distracted! He must a come; and you’ve missed him along the road. I know it’s so—something tells me so.”
“Why, Sally, I couldn’t miss him along the road—you know that.”
“But oh, dear, dear, what will Sis say! He must a come! You must a missed him. He—”
“Oh, don’t distress me any mor... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 228 | Now I was feeling pretty comfortable all down one side, and pretty uncomfortable all up the other. Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by-and-by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river. Then I says to myself, s’pose Tom Sawyer comes down on that boat? And s’pose h... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 229 | “Well—I—I—well, that ought to settle it, of course; but I can’t somehow seem to understand it no way. Looky here, warn’t you ever murdered at all?”
“No. I warn’t ever murdered at all—I played it on them. You come in here and feel of me if you don’t believe me.”
So he done it; and it satisfied him; and he was that glad ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 230 | “Oh, shucks!” I says; “you’re joking.”
“I ain’t joking, either.”
“Well, then,” I says, “joking or no joking, if you hear anything said about a runaway nigger, don’t forget to remember that you don’t know nothing about him, and I don’t know nothing about him.”
Then we took the trunk and put it in my wagon, and he drove ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 231 | “Why, there’s somebody come! I wonder who ’tis? Why, I do believe it’s a stranger. Jimmy” (that’s one of the children) “run and tell Lize to put on another plate for dinner.”
Everybody made a rush for the front door, because, of course, a stranger don’t come every year, and so he lays over the yaller-fever, for interes... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 232 | So Tom he thanked them very hearty and handsome, and let himself be persuaded, and come in; and when he was in he said he was a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio, and his name was William Thompson—and he made another bow.
Well, he run on, and on, and on, making up stuff about Hicksville and everybody in it he could invent... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 233 | “No’m, I’m honest about it; I won’t ever do it again—till you ask me.”
“Till I ask you! Well, I never see the beat of it in my born days! I lay you’ll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you—or the likes of you.”
“Well,” he says, “it does surprise me so. I can’t make it out, somehow. They said you ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 234 | We had dinner out in that broad open passage betwixt the house and the kitchen; and there was things enough on that table for seven families—and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that’s laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning. Uncle Silas he a... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 235 | On the road Tom he told me all about how it was reckoned I was murdered, and how pap disappeared pretty soon, and didn’t come back no more, and what a stir there was when Jim run away; and I told Tom all about our Royal Nonesuch rapscallions, and as much of the raft voyage as I had time to; and as we struck into the to... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 236 | “Looky here, Huck, what fools we are to not think of it before! I bet I know where Jim is.”
“No! Where?”
“In that hut down by the ash-hopper. Why, looky here. When we was at dinner, didn’t you see a nigger man go in there with some vittles?”
“Yes.”
“What did you think the vittles was for?”
“For a dog.”
“So’d I. Well, i... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 237 | I never said nothing, because I warn’t expecting nothing different; but I knowed mighty well that whenever he got his plan ready it wouldn’t have none of them objections to it.
And it didn’t. He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as m... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 238 | When we got home the house was all dark and still; so we went on down to the hut by the ash-hopper for to examine it. We went through the yard so as to see what the hounds would do. They knowed us, and didn’t make no more noise than country dogs is always doing when anything comes by in the night. When we got to the ca... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 239 | “Now we’re all right. We’ll dig him out. It’ll take about a week!”
Then we started for the house, and I went in the back door—you only have to pull a buckskin latch-string, they don’t fasten the doors—but that warn’t romantical enough for Tom Sawyer; no way would do him but he must climb up the lightning-rod. But after... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 240 | I just knowed how it would be; I just expected it. I didn’t know nothing to do; and if I had I couldn’t a done it, because that nigger busted in and says:
“Why, de gracious sakes! do he know you genlmen?”
We could see pretty well now. Tom he looked at the nigger, steady and kind of wondering, and says:
“Does who know u... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 241 | “Don’t ever let on to know us. And if you hear any digging going on nights, it’s us; we’re going to set you free.”
Jim only had time to grab us by the hand and squeeze it; then the nigger come back, and we said we’d come again some time if the nigger wanted us to; and he said he would, more particular if it was dark, b... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 242 | “Blame it, this whole thing is just as easy and awkward as it can be. And so it makes it so rotten difficult to get up a difficult plan. There ain’t no watchman to be drugged—now there ought to be a watchman. There ain’t even a dog to give a sleeping-mixture to. And there’s Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 243 | “What do we want of a saw?”
“What do we want of it? Hain’t we got to saw the leg of Jim’s bed off, so as to get the chain loose?”
“Why, you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off.”
“Well, if that ain’t just like you, Huck Finn. You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of going at a thing. W... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 244 | “No, it wouldn’t do—there ain’t necessity enough for it.”
“For what?” I says.
“Why, to saw Jim’s leg off,” he says.
“Good land!” I says; “why, there ain’t no necessity for it. And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway?”
“Well, some of the best authorities has done it. They couldn’t get the chain off, so th... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 245 | “Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you I’d keep still—that’s what I’d do. Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry-bark ladder? Why, it’s perfectly ridiculous.”
“Well, all right, Tom, fix it your own way; but if you’ll take my advice, you’ll let me borrow a sheet off of the clothesline.”
He ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 246 | “Why, blame it all, it ain’t the prisoner’s plates.”
“But it’s somebody’s plates, ain’t it?”
“Well, spos’n it is? What does the prisoner care whose—”
He broke off there, because we heard the breakfast-horn blowing. So we cleared out for the house.
Along during the morning I borrowed a sheet and a white shirt off of the... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 247 | “Everything’s all right now except tools; and that’s easy fixed.”
“Tools?” I says.
“Yes.”
“Tools for what?”
“Why, to dig with. We ain’t a-going to gnaw him out, are we?”
“Ain’t them old crippled picks and things in there good enough to dig a nigger out with?” I says.
He turns on me, looking pitying enough to make a bod... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 248 | “Yes he will last, too. You don’t reckon it’s going to take thirty-seven years to dig out through a dirt foundation, do you?”
“How long will it take, Tom?”
“Well, we can’t resk being as long as we ought to, because it mayn’t take very long for Uncle Silas to hear from down there by New Orleans. He’ll hear Jim ain’t fro... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 249 | “This ain’t no thirty-seven year job; this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.”
He never said nothing. But he sighed, and pretty soon he stopped digging, and then for a good little while I knowed that he was thinking. Then he says:
“It ain’t no use, Huck, it ain’t a-going to work. If we was prisoners it would, beca... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 250 | He had his own by him, but I handed him mine. He flung it down, and says:
“Gimme a case-knife.”
I didn’t know just what to do—but then I thought. I scratched around amongst the old tools, and got a pickaxe and give it to him, and he took it and went to work, and never said a word.
He was always just that particular. Fu... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 251 | That night we went down the lightning-rod a little after ten, and took one of the candles along, and listened under the window-hole, and heard Jim snoring; so we pitched it in, and it didn’t wake him. Then we whirled in with the pick and shovel, and in about two hours and a half the job was done. We crept in under Jim’... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 252 | I said, “Don’t do nothing of the kind; it’s one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;” but he never paid no attention to me; went right on. It was his way when he’d got his plans set.
So he told Jim how we’d have to smuggle in the rope-ladder pie and other large things by Nat, the nigger that fed him, and he must be... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 253 | In the morning we went out to the woodpile and chopped up the brass candlestick into handy sizes, and Tom put them and the pewter spoon in his pocket. Then we went to the nigger cabins, and while I got Nat’s notice off, Tom shoved a piece of candlestick into the middle of a corn-pone that was in Jim’s pan, and we went ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 254 | Tom says:
“Well, I tell you what I think. What makes them come here just at this runaway nigger’s breakfast-time? It’s because they’re hungry; that’s the reason. You make them a witch pie; that’s the thing for you to do.”
“But my lan’, Mars Sid, how’s I gwyne to make ’m a witch pie? I doan’ know how to make it. I hain’... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 255 | “I’ve hunted high and I’ve hunted low, and it does beat all what has become of your other shirt.”
My heart fell down amongst my lungs and livers and things, and a hard piece of corn-crust started down my throat after it and got met on the road with a cough, and was shot across the table, and took one of the children in... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 256 | “Why, what else is gone, Sally?”
“Ther’s six candles gone—that’s what. The rats could a got the candles, and I reckon they did; I wonder they don’t walk off with the whole place, the way you’re always going to stop their holes and don’t do it; and if they warn’t fools they’d sleep in your hair, Silas—you’d never find i... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 257 | “It’s just as I expected. So you had it in your pocket all the time; and like as not you’ve got the other things there, too. How’d it get there?”
“I reely don’t know, Sally,” he says, kind of apologizing, “or you know I would tell. I was a-studying over my text in Acts Seventeen before breakfast, and I reckon I put it ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 258 | “Well, for the life of me I can’t remember when I done it. I could show her now that I warn’t to blame on account of the rats. But never mind—let it go. I reckon it wouldn’t do no good.”
And so he went on a-mumbling up stairs, and then we left. He was a mighty nice old man. And always is.
Tom was a good deal bothered a... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 259 | “Hang the troublesome rubbage, ther’s ten now!” and she looked huffy and bothered both. But Tom says:
“Why, Aunty, I don’t think there’s ten.”
“You numskull, didn’t you see me count ’m?”
“I know, but—”
“Well, I’ll count ’m again.”
So I smouched one, and they come out nine, same as the other time. Well, she was in a tea... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 260 | So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as to the candlestick, it warn’t no consequence, it would blow over by-and-by.
But that pie was a job; we had no end of trouble with that pie. We fixed it up away dow... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 261 | But we didn’t need it. All we needed was just enough for the pie, and so we throwed the rest away. We didn’t cook none of the pies in the wash-pan—afraid the solder would melt; but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought considerable of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wood... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 262 | “Look at Lady Jane Grey,” he says; “look at Gilford Dudley; look at old Northumberland! Why, Huck, s’pose it is considerble trouble?—what you going to do?—how you going to get around it? Jim’s got to do his inscription and coat of arms. They all do.”
Jim says:
“Why, Mars Tom, I hain’t got no coat o’ arm; I hain’t got n... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 263 | “Oh, I don’t know. But he’s got to have it. All the nobility does.”
That was just his way. If it didn’t suit him to explain a thing to you, he wouldn’t do it. You might pump at him a week, it wouldn’t make no difference.
He’d got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that p... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 264 | “I know how to fix it. We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock. There’s a gaudy big grindstone down at the mill, and we’ll smouch it, and carve the things on it, and file out the pens and the saw on it, too.”
It warn’t no slouch of an idea; and... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 265 | Tom thought a minute or two, and says:
“It’s a good idea. And I reckon it’s been done. It must a been done; it stands to reason. Yes, it’s a prime good idea. Where could you keep it?”
“Keep what, Mars Tom?”
“Why, a rattlesnake.”
“De goodness gracious alive, Mars Tom! Why, if dey was a rattlesnake to come in heah I’d ta... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 266 | “I k’n stan’ dem, Mars Tom, but blame’ ’f I couldn’ get along widout um, I tell you dat. I never knowed b’fo’ ’t was so much bother and trouble to be a prisoner.”
“Well, it always is when it’s done right. You got any rats around here?”
“No, sah, I hain’t seed none.”
“Well, we’ll get you some rats.”
“Why, Mars Tom, I do... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 267 | Tom waited to think it over, and see if there wasn’t nothing else; and pretty soon he says:
“Oh, there’s one thing I forgot. Could you raise a flower here, do you reckon?”
“I doan know but maybe I could, Mars Tom; but it’s tolable dark in heah, en I ain’ got no use f’r no flower, nohow, en she’d be a pow’ful sight o’ t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 268 | In the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally’s bed. But while we was gone for spiders little Thomas Franklin Benj... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 269 |
We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet’s nest, but we didn’t. The family was at home. We didn’t give it right up, but stayed with them as long as we could; because we allowed we’d tire them out or they’d got to tire us out... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 270 | We got a licking every time one of our snakes come in her way, and she allowed these lickings warn’t nothing to what she would do if we ever loaded up the place again with them. I didn’t mind the lickings, because they didn’t amount to nothing; but I minded the trouble we had to lay in another lot. But we got them laid... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 271 | But as I was saying, we’d got all the work done now, at last; and we was all pretty much fagged out, too, but mainly Jim. The old man had wrote a couple of times to the plantation below Orleans to come and get their runaway nigger, but hadn’t got no answer, because there warn’t no such plantation; so he allowed he woul... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 272 | “All right, then, I’ll do it; but I could carry it just as handy in my own togs.”
“You wouldn’t look like a servant-girl then, would you?”
“No, but there won’t be nobody to see what I look like, anyway.”
“That ain’t got nothing to do with it. The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether an... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 273 | So he said, now for the grand bulge! So the very next morning at the streak of dawn we got another letter ready, and was wondering what we better do with it, because we heard them say at supper they was going to have a nigger on watch at both doors all night. Tom he went down the lightning-rod to spy around; and the ni... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 274 | UNKNOWN FRIEND
We was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a-fishing, with a lunch, and had a good time, and took a look at the raft and found her all right, and got home late to supper, and found them in such a sweat and worry they didn’t know which end they was standing on, a... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 275 | “I don’t know ’m.”
“You don’t know? Don’t answer me that way. Tom, I want to know what you been doing down there.”
“I hain’t been doing a single thing, Aunt Sally, I hope to gracious if I have.”
I reckoned she’d let me go now, and as a generl thing she would; but I s’pose there was so many strange things going on she w... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 276 | At last she come and begun to ask me questions, but I couldn’t answer them straight, I didn’t know which end of me was up; because these men was in such a fidget now that some was wanting to start right now and lay for them desperadoes, and saying it warn’t but a few minutes to midnight; and others was trying to get th... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 277 | “Hurry! hurry!” I says. “Where’s Jim?”
“Right at your elbow; if you reach out your arm you can touch him. He’s dressed, and everything’s ready. Now we’ll slide out and give the sheep-signal.”
But then we heard the tramp of men coming to the door, and heard them begin to fumble with the pad-lock, and heard a man say:
“I... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 278 | But we didn’t answer; we just unfurled our heels and shoved. Then there was a rush, and a bang, bang, bang! and the bullets fairly whizzed around us! We heard them sing out:
“Here they are! They’ve broke for the river! After ’em, boys, and turn loose the dogs!”
So here they come, full tilt. We could hear them because t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 279 | When me and Jim heard that we didn’t feel so brash as what we did before. It was hurting him considerable, and bleeding; so we laid him in the wigwam and tore up one of the duke’s shirts for to bandage him, but he says:
“Gimme the rags; I can do it myself. Don’t stop now; don’t fool around here, and the evasion booming... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 280 | So when he sees me getting the canoe ready, he says:
“Well, then, if you’re bound to go, I’ll tell you the way to do when you get to the village. Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 281 | “Oh, you needn’t be afeard, sir, she carried the three of us easy enough.”
“What three?”
“Why, me and Sid, and—and—and the guns; that’s what I mean.”
“Oh,” he says.
But he put his foot on the gunnel and rocked her, and shook his head, and said he reckoned he’d look around for a bigger one. But they was all locked and c... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 282 | “Why, Tom! Where you been all this time, you rascal?”
“I hain’t been nowheres,” I says, “only just hunting for the runaway nigger—me and Sid.”
“Why, where ever did you go?” he says. “Your aunt’s been mighty uneasy.”
“She needn’t,” I says, “because we was all right. We followed the men and the dogs, but they outrun us, ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 283 | And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers’ wives, to dinner; and such another clack a body never heard. Old Mrs. Hotchkiss was the worst; her tongue was a-going all the time. She says:
“Well, Sister Phelps, I’ve ransacked that-air cabin over, an’ I b’lieve the nigger was crazy. I says to Sister Damrell—didn’t ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 284 | “You may well say it, Brer Hightower! It’s jist as I was a-sayin’ to Brer Phelps, his own self. S’e, what do you think of it, Sister Hotchkiss, s’e? Think o’ what, Brer Phelps, s’I? Think o’ that bed-leg sawed off that a way, s’e? think of it, s’I? I lay it never sawed itself off, s’I—somebody sawed it, s’I; that’s my ... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 285 | “Well, it does beat—”
“Laws alive, I never—”
“So help me, I wouldn’t a be—”
“House-thieves as well as—”
“Goodnessgracioussakes, I’d a ben afeard to live in sich a—”
“’Fraid to live!—why, I was that scared I dasn’t hardly go to bed, or get up, or lay down, or set down, Sister Ridgeway. Why, they’d steal the very—why, go... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 286 | Says I to myself, I can explain better how we come to not be in that room this morning if I go out to one side and study over it a little. So I done it. But I dasn’t go fur, or she’d a sent for me. And when it was late in the day the people all went, and then I come in and told her the noise and shooting waked up me an... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 287 | And then when I went up to bed she come up with me and fetched her candle, and tucked me in, and mothered me so good I felt mean, and like I couldn’t look her in the face; and she set down on the bed and talked with me a long time, and said what a splendid boy Sid was, and didn’t seem to want to ever stop talking about... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 288 | “Did I give you the letter?”
“What letter?”
“The one I got yesterday out of the post-office.”
“No, you didn’t give me no letter.”
“Well, I must a forgot it.”
So he rummaged his pockets, and then went off somewheres where he had laid it down, and fetched it, and give it to her. She says:
“Why, it’s from St. Petersburg—i... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 289 | They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the botto... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 290 |
“Don’t be no rougher on him than you’re obleeged to, because he ain’t a bad nigger. When I got to where I found the boy I see I couldn’t cut the bullet out without some help, and he warn’t in no condition for me to leave to go and get help; and he got a little worse and a little worse, and after a long time he went ou... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 291 | Somebody says:
“Well, it sounds very good, doctor, I’m obleeged to say.”
Then the others softened up a little, too, and I was mighty thankful to that old doctor for doing Jim that good turn; and I was glad it was according to my judgment of him, too; because I thought he had a good heart in him and was a good man the f... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 292 | So we set there watching, and by-and-by he stirs a bit, and opened his eyes very natural, and takes a look, and says:
“Hello!—why, I’m at home! How’s that? Where’s the raft?”
“It’s all right,” I says.
“And Jim?”
“The same,” I says, but couldn’t say it pretty brash. But he never noticed, but says:
“Good! Splendid! Now w... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 293 | “Mercy sakes!”
“—and load up the cabin with rats and snakes and so on, for company for Jim; and then you kept Tom here so long with the butter in his hat that you come near spiling the whole business, because the men come before we was out of the cabin, and we had to rush, and they heard us and let drive at us, and I g... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 294 | “They hain’t no right to shut him up! Shove!—and don’t you lose a minute. Turn him loose! he ain’t no slave; he’s as free as any cretur that walks this earth!”
“What does the child mean?”
“I mean every word I say, Aunt Sally, and if somebody don’t go, I’ll go. I’ve knowed him all his life, and so has Tom, there. Old Mi... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 295 | So I done it. But not feeling brash.
Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest-looking persons I ever see—except one, and that was Uncle Silas, when he come in and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn’t know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer-meeting ser... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 296 | “Well, I never got ’em, Sis.”
Aunt Polly she turns around slow and severe, and says:
“You, Tom!”
“Well—what?” he says, kind of pettish.
“Don’t you what me, you impudent thing—hand out them letters.”
“What letters?”
“Them letters. I be bound, if I have to take aholt of you I’ll—”
“They’re in the trunk. There, now. And t... |
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain | 0 | 297 | “Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you?—what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan’? I tole you I got a hairy breas’, en what’s de sign un it; en I tole you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich agin; en it’s come true; en heah she is! Dah, now! doan’ talk to me—signs is signs, mine I tell you; en I knowed jis’ ’s well ’at I... |
Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_-_Lewis_Carroll | 1 | 0 | Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was consid... |
Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_-_Lewis_Carroll | 1 | 1 | The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down ... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.