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Making up the “Deffisit” |
Going for him |
The Doctor |
The Bag of Money |
The Cubby |
Supper with the Hare-Lip |
Honest Injun |
The Duke looks under the Bed |
Huck takes the Money |
A Crack in the Dining-room Door |
The Undertaker |
“He had a Rat!” |
“Was you in my Room?” |
Jawing |
In Trouble |
Indignation |
How to Find Them |
He Wrote |
Hannah with the Mumps |
The Auction |
The True Brothers |
The Doctor leads Huck |
The Duke Wrote |
“Gentlemen, Gentlemen!” |
“Jim Lit Out” |
The King shakes Huck |
The Duke went for Him |
Spanish Moss |
“Who Nailed Him?” |
Thinking |
He gave him Ten Cents |
Striking for the Back Country |
Still and Sunday-like |
She hugged him tight |
“Who do you reckon it is?” |
“It was Tom Sawyer” |
“Mr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?” |
A pretty long Blessing |
Traveling By Rail |
Vittles |
A Simple Job |
Witches |
Getting Wood |
One of the Best Authorities |
The Breakfast-Horn |
Smouching the Knives |
Going down the Lightning-Rod |
Stealing spoons |
Tom advises a Witch Pie |
The Rubbage-Pile |
“Missus, dey’s a Sheet Gone” |
In a Tearing Way |
One of his Ancestors |
Jim’s Coat of Arms |
A Tough Job |
Buttons on their Tails |
Irrigation |
Keeping off Dull Times |
Sawdust Diet |
Trouble is Brewing |
Fishing |
Every one had a Gun |
Tom caught on a Splinter |
Jim advises a Doctor |
The Doctor |
Uncle Silas in Danger |
Old Mrs. Hotchkiss |
Aunt Sally talks to Huck |
Tom Sawyer wounded |
The Doctor speaks for Jim |
Tom rose square up in Bed |
“Hand out them Letters” |
Out of Bondage |
Tom’s Liberality |
Yours Truly |
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 OF ORDNANCE. |
EXPLANATORY |
In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the... |
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. |
HUCKLEBERRY FINN |
Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago |
CHAPTER I. |
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 a... |
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 api... |
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