Mark Twain
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CHAPTER XVII of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – A0202
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions. In about a minute somebody spoke out of a window without putting his head out, and says: “Be done, boys! Who’s there?” I says: “It’s me.” “Who’s me?” “George Jackson, sir.” “What do you want?” “I don’t want nothing,
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CHAPTER XVI of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – A0202
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Expectation.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by Cairo.—Swimming Ashore. We slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession. She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried as many
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CHAPTER XV of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – A0202
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.—Trash. We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and
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CHAPTER IX of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete – A0202
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete Mark Twain A Solemn Situation—Grave Subjects Introduced—Injun Joe Explains At half-past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. They said their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited, in restless impatience. When it seemed to him that it must be
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CHAPTER VIII of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete – A0202
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete Mark Twain Tom Decides on his Course—Old Scenes Re-enacted Tom dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog. He crossed a small “branch” two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition
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CHAPTER VII of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete – A0202
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete Mark Twain A Treaty Entered Into—Early Lessons—A Mistake Made The harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered. So at last, with a sigh and a yawn, he gave it up. It seemed to him that the noon recess would never come.