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“…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.”
“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.”
“It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a [slave]; but I
don it and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither.”
“It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness.”
“All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up.”
“I knowed he was white inside.”
“…she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me….”
“and if I catchy you about that school I’ll tan you good. Firs you know you’ll get religion, too. I
never see such a son.”
That is, there’s something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don’t work
for me, and I reckon it don’t work for only just the right kind.
“Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose. They’re after us!”
“Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by thing thing? Not for pie he wouldn’t…..I wish
Tom Sawyer was here.”
By the time I got there the sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an
island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people.
“You take a man dat’s got on’y one er two chillen; is dat man gwyne to be waseful o’ chillen? No,
he ain’t; he can’t ‘ford it. He know how to value ‘em. But you take a man dat’s got ‘bout five
million chillen runnin’ roun’ de house, in it’s diffunt.”
I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a [slave] to argue. So I quit.
“dern the dern fog.”
“Dat truck dah is trash.”
“He’s white.”
“So I reckoned I wouldn’t bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come
handiest at the time.”
It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too.
Other placed do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and
easy on a raft.
If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of
people is to let them have their own way.
“I’m tired of this; but I’ll endure it till one o’clock.”
“’Po’ little ‘Lizabeth! Po’ little Johnny! It’s mighty hard; I spec’ I ain’t ever gwyne to see you no
mo’, no mo!’” He was a might good [slave], Jim was.”
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more
style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.
“What! Why Jim is---“
It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
“It don’t make no difference how foolish it is, it’s the right way—and it’s the regular way. And
there ain’t no other way, that ever I heard of, and I’ve read all the books that gives any information
about these things.”
“no, sah,--I doan’ budge a step out’n dis place, ‘dout a doctor; not it it’s forty year!”
“Why, I wanted the adventure ot it; and I’d a waded neck-deep in blood to—“
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest,...