In this episode, we dive into the adventurous tale of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy who embarks on a journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. The narrative begins with Huck's reflections on his past adventures with Tom Sawyer and the fortune they stumbled upon. However, Huck's life takes a turn as he finds himself under the care of the widow Douglas, who attempts to civilize him. Huck's rebellious spirit leads him to escape, and he soon finds himself on a raft with Jim, a runaway slave, as they navigate the Mississippi River in search of freedom. Along the way, they encounter a series of colorful characters, including two conmen who claim to be a duke and a king, adding to the complexity of their journey.
As Huck and Jim continue their adventure, they face moral dilemmas and challenges that test their friendship and resolve. The episode explores themes of freedom, identity, and societal norms, as Huck grapples with his conscience and the societal expectations placed upon him. The story culminates in a daring escape plan orchestrated by Tom Sawyer, filled with humor and suspense. Ultimately, Huck's journey is one of self-discovery and defiance against the constraints of civilization, leaving listeners with a sense of adventure and reflection on the complexities of human nature.
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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 ploppiness will be shot by order of the office.
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I'm up there. You don't know about me without you read a book called Tom Sawyer, but I'm Hopkin this time. If you did read that book, you'll remember Tom Sawyer and me on some money hit by Robert and Kate. Judge, he's the smartest man in Missouri, or he put the money out of interest. Before I was ready, I used to live in the woods, free and comfortable life. But after we found the money, the widow Douglas allowed to supervise me. It was awesome. Considering how dismal, regular, and decent the widow was in a way, Huckleberry, I will not have you smoking. It's a mean practice and play clean. Besides, 14 is too young.
Oh, that's the way it was. But when you close, vinyl, reading, selling books, I was ready to cut and run. Well, that's it. That was unusual. Huckleberry? Yes, ma'am. Don't squint up like that. Stop playing. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Just stop squirming, though. Huxpin, have you got the shoes off? Yes, ma'am. I declare sometimes I'm afraid you're gonna go up just like your father. Ma'am, the ghost in heart. You might as well go up to bed. I can't stand your citizen. I stood by the wind in my room, just scared, and tried to think of something fearful, like, aren't I you?
I got the down run of the stairs that I lit up my pipe, didn't care if the weather smelled or not, and the twigs snapped down the yard. Who's there? I'm sitting on your whisking and with a slave. Come on, Tom.
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Who is you? I I thought I the old wind. That's all. That's the old wind howling around.
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You don't need to start. Come on. Where is all this, Tom? We're gonna start a band of robbers called Tom Sawyer's band. Everybody will have to sign an open. Blood. Blood. Man, why? So he won't tell the You got a father, ain't you? I can't never find Tapsley today. He's like drunk drunk without hogs in a pandemic. Been he's been here for a year. Wait a minute. You could have the wood of Douglas to kill. I reckon that'll do. He's most family. Put the line of business for this little gang, Tom. Nothing much. Only murder and robbery. We're highwaymen real style.
We hold up characters on the Kings Highway. Kill the people. Sounds alright. Who do you figure on Highway First? I've got secret news from my spy that a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and a rich Arab with $200 and 600 cans of cans. I'd sure like to see them. They'll be in Florence in Cape Howard tomorrow afternoon. Now wait a minute, Tom Sawyer. That's a Sunday school picnic gonna be in Cape Howard tomorrow, and you know it. It'll just look like a Sunday school picnic. It's really ARABS. It's called done by enchantment. If you'd read that book, Darn It Behold it, you'd know all about it.
Tom, don't you get mad now. But I judged all that stuff in one of your book by. If you believe in an Arabs and elephants, then I'm going back to my room.
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New clothes, what? Pat,
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how'd you get
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ear? Think you're a big bug, don't you? Maybe. Now don't give me no lip. I'll take you down a peg before I'm through. Getting medicated, ain't you? Read, write too. Answer it. Yeah. Who told you you could meddle with that foolishness, Who told you? The widow. Peace on me. The widow, I'll learn her to meddle. And looky now, you dropped that school here. You were putting on airs, letting on to be better than your father. You hear, Huck? Yes, doc. I ain't the man to stand it. Now let me hear you read it. Here. Take up this book.
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Well, now walking maybe his headquarters three miles.
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You can do it. Look at that. A bed and a looking glass and a carpet, and your own father got to sleep with a hogs and a tanyard. They say you're rich. Got money.
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Have you, hey? I ain't got it.
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That's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it, and you're gonna get it for your old father, or I'll take him to law. Now come on with me. But I wanna see You, coming when your pap says so? Are you, hey? Yes,
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Pat picked me up living at KISS, across the cabin on the on the shore. He spent time getting drunk and licking me with a cow eyed drop. He got right handy with a hit bit too, and I was all over well. He locked me in for three days running, then came back stronger than ever. Call this a gun.
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That's what I said. Just look at it. Papa got to the store. Here's the law taking a man's own son away from him. His own son after I had all the expense to raise and me what should be the richest man in town. That's what I told him. Me lying in the mud in the gutter. This jug's empty. You've been stealing my liquor. You've drunk it all, Pat. There, you see? Call that government when a man can't even keep a full jug. You stay here, boy. Here, I'm going to town for whiskey, and I'm cutting a three inch hickory on the way back. I'll learn a boy to say he's better than his pap.
When I get back, I'm gonna see what color your backbone is. You hear?
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Pat was so drunk he forgot to lock the door, and I was gonna wait for him to come back. I loaded up a fifth canoe we'd hauled in, and I took Pat's gunner, shot me a wild pig, spread him all over the cabin floor, and spreaded up the axe good, stuck some of my hairs on it. I reckon they'd figure the robbers got me and dumped me in the Mississippi, and I'd be the end. Then I cut for the canoe, stubs out any risk. About two miles downstream, I pulled up on Jackson Drive. It was great dawn by now. There was freckle places on the ground where light had shifted down through the lead. A couple of squirrels sat on the limb and dabbled at me thunder.
I jumped there when I smelled smoke. Somebody had a campfire going on Jackson's Island. I went car and slow, but not slow enough. I stepped on a twig. I cracked like a rifle. Who's there? Tim? Is that the Widow Douglas' gym?
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Hook? Is that hook in here? What are you doing now at roaming?
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I run away from Pat, Tim. He's about gonna finish me. I fixed it so it looked like Barbara's done.
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No. Hey. That's even better than Tom Sawyer could've done.
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Hey. What are you doing on, Jack and Jack?
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Well, maybe I'd better not tell. Why, Jim? There's reason. You wouldn't tell on me with your hook. You promise?
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Do it, Jim. I promise.
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Alright. I run off.
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Damn. How come you do a thing like that?
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Well, old widow Douglas, she said she'd never sailed me off down to New Orleans. But I'm gonna tell miss Watson she's a goner for $800, and I didn't wait to hear no more. I led out for the river, and I come over to the island. You won't tell where you're headed.
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Yeah. I wouldn't.
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So Jim can help you, honey. Then get in bird. That's a sign it's gonna ring. You best find a table, Misty Eye. It's gonna rain powerful.
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For the birds was ripe. Rain for about a week, and river was riding fast. All such things began to pile up on land. We fixed out a big piece of grass, figured we could use it. Once even our house came sitting down and grounded on a snack. Ken looked inside and came out with some old clothes and stuff. I put on a calico gown with sun down. Allowed I'd settle over the Elmore Shore and find out what was up. Come in. Hi, ma'am. Well, little girl, and what might your name be? Well, that's a considerable way. You better stay here and rest of us. Here, take off your bonnet.
No. I left around the door last year. Okay. I don't know if That's right. A boy named Huck Finn. Some think his father done it himself. No. He's there soon. Old Finn come here to get him winced, but nobody could find him. But now folks judge it was done by a runaway slave named Jim. Hey. There's a $300 reward. My husband's gonna look for him soon as he gets back from town. Somebody saw smoke on Jackson's Island. Jackson's. Now here, honey. Wind this yarn around his hands like a good girl. Yes, ma'am. Wait. You're asking me to go over here? It went upriver to borrow another gun. Stella, catch this yarn in your lap here.
Got it. Come on now. What's your real name? It's Robert. Is it Bill or Tom or Bob or what? Please, I take one of the payer garage. Oh, now you sit down. I ain't gonna hurt you. Now just tell me your secret, son. I'll keep it. That's your runaway apprentice. Now tell me all about it. Oh, yes, ma'am. I run off from the farm where I was found to to beat you something awful. I've been traveling three days. You're a fine boy, That's right. Quick. When a cow gets up, we can get up first. I'm in. A whore. Sorry, ma'am. Country boy. Alright. Now what's your real name?
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George Peterson. Well, remember it, George.
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Don't tell me it's Alexander Laird. It's George, ma'am. And don't go trying to fool a woman in that dress. And mind you, when a girl catches anything in her lap, she throws her knees apart to spread her skirt. Don't clap them together the way you did to catch that yarn. Now plop along, Sarah Mary William George Alexander, and keep out of trouble. Tim? Tim? Yeah, hon? Yeah. He is in the bush. Yep. Not to tell Tim. We're in a minute alone. We gotta get the raft out on the river. They're after
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it.
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So it's loaded along. Arguin, pleasant life. They figured three nights tomorrow, set the Cairo. Then we take a steamboat up to three states to be out of trouble.
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Look, Sharfucker. Because if we miss Carlo, I'll be back in a slave country again and no more shore freedom. No, sir.
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I don't know if you're in a false city, sir.
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The first thing I'll do in a free state, I'll save my money, never spend a single cent. No, sir. And I'll get enough, and I'll buy my wife off old man's farm, and I'll buy my children free. When we get to Cairo, I'm gonna be free. You understand the thing? I'm gonna be Are they gonna get all free? Pay the hell out of the free and need a plane for. Yeah. Yeah. Now steal my two children, all three with me to the North.
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Hear that talk, Austin? Is this team? Coming outside of the state, he's still a stone. Still not belong to a man. I don't know. He never done me no harm. That's it.
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That's Carroy at last. I just know it. It don't look right to me, Jim. Pretty soon I'll be jumping for joy, and I'll say it's all on a counterpucker. How the pre man and help done it? Jim will ever forget no. No, sir. You're the best friend Jim has. The only friend Jim's got now.
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We run down river the rest of the night. A thin stain in his eyes through the fog to see Cairo. The mist came in so thick it couldn't even see the lights on the Illinois shore. We asked the fella. He crushed at us and told us Cairo we'd be way down the river. When the daylight came, I dipped up some water to drink.
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Look at that, Hook. That's clean, Ohio water in shore, not the old muddy Mississippi.
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So when fire Cairo in the pub last night, mister Queen
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Don't let talk about it, Hook. Poor slave can't have no luck.
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You should have to stand him. I should have It ain't your fault, Hook.
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Don't pin yourself, boy.
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Hey.
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He means to cave off the turn, old Hook. Impalas don't care about no rat. Seriously, just what? See, no use Hook. Steve's run over. Just the gentleman. Hey, you. Yeah. Yeah.
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Talk about bad luck. Couldn't find you in the rascal next night. We had fixed the steering seat. This time, Tim rigged up a wily on ornery raft at bad weather now. Two, three days, nights, they're gone. Quiet, it's made lovely. Then one morning, just we were getting ready to shovel. We heard a monster sky high of dogs in the water.
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Oh, young man. You've stayed our lives. I'm sure this gentleman is as faithful as I. What's the matter? Don't you know each other? Never had pleasure. We met on the footpath outside town. That's quite a pride you had, old timer. How come you was a run-in? Well, I was conducting a little temperance revival, clearing as much as 5 or $6 a night when, one of the faithful found me tell me with a gun, but they had a jar of oil in them the rail out so I didn't wait for breakfast. And you, my friend. Well, sir, I've been selling an article to take the potter off too. It does take it off too and the enamel along with it. I stayed about one night longer than I ought it. Old man, I reckon we ought a noble team. Sure. Sounds right to me.
What is your line mostly? Old journeyman printer, patent medicine, creator acting, tragedy, you know, mesmerism, phonology, and a lot of all this. What's your line? Mostly doctrine, laying on the hands and such.
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Preaching and missioneering too. Look, there ain't no butt in here, but I figure it's your riding around for maybe one of your man's feet for a while. The suite?
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Oh, the food. That's right. We take turns. Yes. I see. Alana. Well, what are you all asking about? To think that I should be degraded down to this company. What's wrong with this company? Oh, it's alright for you, I guess. Someday, I will lie down and my poor broken heart will rest. So what do you hear when you're brokenhearted us first? Done nothing. Oh, you would not believe me. The world never believed. Let it pass. There's no matter the secret of my birth. What? Gentlemen, I have confidence in you. My right, I am a duke.
No. You can't mean I am the rightful duke of Bridgewater, and here am I, pawned from my estate by usurper, despite it by the world, degraded the companionship of Velen on a raft. Now don't cry. Oh, dear. It would make me a typo happier if you called me your grace or even bread water. That's my title, you know. And of course, gentlemen, I cannot do any manual labor. Uh-huh.
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Well, I guess you can't stand what your lordship. The other one I'm Look here, Bill
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Dwater. Bridgewater. I'm a nation sorry for you, but you ain't the only one that didn't take wrongfully out of our high place. I do have the secret of my birth. No. Look at that, Can I trust you in the day of death? I am the late dulph the what? The disappeared dulphate, Louis the seventeenth, son of Louis the sixteenth of Mary Antoinette, the rightful king of France. At your age, then I would consider it a kindness if you would address me as your majesty. And naturally, that is, of course, I cannot do too mean your labor. Gloria Hook, ain't it grand to have honest to goodness royalty on the raft?
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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these lies aren't no kings or dukes, but I never said nothing. We kept your grace thing in your magazine, and everything got a long spine. I told him Jim was my property, and I was taking him down to my Uncle Ben's place below New Orleans. Now you're sure he ain't a runaway slave? Would a runaway run south? Well, how come you travel at night? Well, folks kept trying to get him away from me saying he was a fugitive. They don't bother us none at night. Mhmm.
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Well, we'll figure something out about that. Sure. Speaking of figuring, my dear Duke, it's, time we laid out a campaign. Well, now just by chance, my dear Dauphin, I have here in my pocket back several play bills left over from my last engagement in Drury Lane Theatre, London. You mean theater actors? Have you never thought of the board as royalty? No. You shall, fallen grandeur. The first good town we come to, we'll hire a hall and do Romeo and Juliet. Oh, it's alright with me if it pays, Bill's water. I don't know much about play action, though, that I was too small. I was happy to have them at the palace in France. Yeah. Well, do not worry. I will learn you. I'll be Romeo, and you will be his pretty sweetheart, Juliet. Hey. Wait a minute. If Juliet's a young girl, Duke, ain't my peeled dome and white whiskers gonna look uncommon art on us? Don't worry. These country jakes will never think of it.
Well, gentlemen, I've been up to the village and had quite an afternoon working in the local print shop. Working is well, in a manner of speaking. I took in $10 worth of advertisements for the town newspaper, sold three cut rate subscriptions. Total, $9.
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Not counting this jug. Here. Where is your paper to take out for?
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My boy, you do not have the proper outlook. And, what's more, gentlemen? I fixed it so we can travel in the daytime.
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Here. It's a plate handbill. Runaway, man. Saint Jeff's Plantation, New Orleans.
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2 Hundred Dollars A Year. Yeah. This way we can make out we're taking him down for the reward. And here's my masterpiece. Look at the beautiful typography.
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The Experian revival,
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one night only. The world renowned tragedian Edwin Keane, the elder of the Royal Haymarket Theatre of Pudding Lane, London. That's you.
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And David Garrett, the younger of the Surrey Lane Theatre. That is me. From the sublime six Syrian Spectacles, the Balcony King, and Romeo and Juliet. Admissions, 25¢.
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Ladies and children not admitted. And if that don't get them, I don't know Arkansas. Well, your majesty, we gotta rehearse some more and we gotta figure out some encore. What's encore, Stillswater? Never mind, Dauphin. I've got one for you that'll just set the town right back on its ear. Tonight, majesty, the place to sing.
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We tied up at the next town, and the Duke went and hired the courthouse, stuck up the bills. Wasn't much at the town hall. The streets was mostly mud. There ain't been any paint on the houses since Columbus's time. The men stood around leaning on something in a wetland. They spent most of their time following tobacco
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like this. Give me a jaw tobacco, man. It's got but one left. Lend me one hand. I'll give my last to Ben Thompson. You give him one? When you pay me back all the chores, I'll gov you're ready. Didn't pay you back once. Why are you stored at back here? Gov back homegrown. What's that? Mhmm. When somebody is getting tired of having a child, come on. Let's go to them.
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Well, that's the way life went in that town. Turned out there was a circus in town that day.
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And about noon, it was quite crowded. Somebody sets up a holler. Sir, Here comes old Bob in from the country for his monthly run. I wonder who's gonna show up this time. Oh, he never hurts nobody. He's the best naturedest fool in Arkansas. Drunk or sober. Got a jug in each hand.
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I'm a Wayne, tell Alex Garrett, Olivia and Harvey. That's who I am. I'm a war fan, and the price of coffin I'm a
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bonafide. I'm tired of this. I warned you last week not to open your mouth against me. I don't care. I'm a mean, tough grizzly, and He killed it. The old Bob's never done the harm. He's mad. He ought to get coming. Yeah. And I got another barrel of that shotgun. Yeah. Yeah, dear. You're linting anybody. Any real lynching is gonna be done, it'll be done in proper southern fashion. You'll come at night and bring your mask and plenty of liquor for quick courage. Now get out before I let go of the other barrel.
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That crowd is broke apart and went every which way. Apparently, this older old shotgun marched away. Later on, I see two of them playing balls in the colonel, took each other down. Everybody said they'd done it perfect and gave him pennies. That's the kind of town it was. That night, we had our show. As soon as Romeo,
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they just made an announcement. And now for an editor, mister King will 27, 20 eight. Not bad for a one might stand a majesty. Now shall we return to our boudoir and sample this here in serial nectar? Well, just now you're talking, Billgewater. Give me here. I've laid it down the Yeah. Yeah. Don't it surprise you the way these things carry on? No records from the breed. But, Hook, these kings aren't on regular rat counts. That's what they is.
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That's what I'm a saying. They always molted. Take all Henry the eighth. I ought to see him when he was thinking.
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What did he do?
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He used to marry a new wife every day and chop her head off in the morning.
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And you do things in business if you are. I don't know.
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Best of your Gwynnys day. Next morning, the friend of that old time thing's honor went to Lamb. I get seen the king.
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Pipe to your pipe team? Oh, thank you, You know, I was thinking, I was feeling real good. What, Jim? Well, mind me at the time I treat my little Elizabeth so hungry. She was only about four years old, and she took scarlet fever. Then one day, she's better. And she's just standing there. And I said, check the door. And she never done it. Just stood there kind of smiling. I said it again, mighty loud. There's that door. But she never paid me no mind. Then I fetched her, slapped by the head, but she just standing. Just then long come the wind and slam the door behind her. Kablam. And she never moved.
My breath almost caught right out of me. And that door slammed again. And she don't never buzzed. Huck, I just bust out crying. And I said, Lord God Almighty, forgive a four old Jim because he's never gonna forgive himself as long as he lives. Huck, that little child, he was plumbed deaf. And I've been treating her so, and now I ain't never gonna see Elizabeth again. But maybe, Hook, maybe I'll buy her free. That's what I'll do. I'll buy her free.
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We were down south now. We began to come on completely Spanish mall, raining down like long gray beard. A king and a duke a plumb out of money then. Finally, it went down and tried selling fortune, but the mayor got tarred and feathers. Next town after that, they sent me out to buy a jug. And when I got back, there was nobody on the raft.
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It's in the camper Duke. You,
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looking for somebody for me? Yeah. Then you've seen a a slave somewhere about, big fellas? Well, still, they,
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they got a runaway. No. A runaway? Yeah. Down to Silas Self's place. They're holding them for the reward. You're looking for him?
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Nobody got hurt today. I mean, when they caught him. No.
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$200 reward for him, though. Like picking money off in the road. It is. Wish I had it. Who held him, mister? An old fella. Strange. Yeah. Sold his chest and the reward for $40 because he can't wait. He has to go up river. An old fella, mister? Yeah. Old goat with whiskers. That's right, son. Had a handbill with his slave to turn it in all. Sold them for $40. Boy, if it was me, you'd bet I'd take that whole 200. Yes, sir. Just like picking money off on the road.
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I sat up there watching the river, think until I wore my head soft. After all this long journey and the sound was at the heart to make him a slave again. In all for forty years dollars, I thought maybe I should write the widow where Jim was so he could be with friends anyway. Then Then I started to get around and help them help the slave to get a feeling. I couldn't stand that. Then I got to thinking about our trip downriver. And since then, I was the only son who had left in the whole world, I figured I might as well be good and wicked. It. And for a starter, I peeled him out of flavor again.
I started over to Phelps. Where I thought I said they had Jim. I was all still on Sunday night. When I got there, the dooryard was empty. And out in the slave cabin, I heard a spinning wheel, honey, waving along up and thinking down again. I wish I was dead, but that's the lunkiest sound in the world. Then suddenly the dog was piling on the house.
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Welcome, boy. We've been expecting it for a couple of days no more. Why is your baggage down to the t boat right in?
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I I also wouldn't have bought one of them. Boy, that's too bad, but I reckon we can fix you up. Oh, here we are running on you. Jane told us a word about the family up the river. And now you just sit down and tell me everything. Just all about it. Every last thing you can think of. Well, it's not that your time goes alone. Why is Sonia standing like you don't know your own name? Well, I well, from what I heard, I never thought I'd see the date when I just stuttering and lollygagging from Tom Sawyer. Well, Matt, Tom Sawyer.
I guess, I almost jumped through the floor. So that's what they did for. And I told them more about my family. I mean, the story of family. It could've happened in a million years. Then I said to myself, suppose real time comes down the steamboat landing, please out my name before I'm coming away to keep it quiet. Well, I was on a sweat, so I told the folks I had to go down and mail a letter. And they're coming up in the works, sure enough, I met Tom. I ain't never done you no harm. Why do you wanna come back to haunt me for? I ain't come back. I ain't getting gone.
I ain't getting you're in a ghost? Honestly, you're in a ghost? Honestly, looky here. Weren't you even murdered at all? Nah. I played on it. Now we're in fair grand adventure. Yes, sir. What are you doing down here, You won't tell nobody, Tom. There's a slave there. I'm a trying to steal out of slavery. Oh, with a Douglas assistant. What? Why did it? I know what you'll say. It's really low down, stupid, but I don't care. I'm I'm low down and well, all I want you to do is not let on. Will you, Tom? Look. I'll help you steal it. No. You tell me where it is. He is your uncle Sally's estate, and that's another thing.
I don't know what we're gonna do, but safe and time, Tom. Well, what is this? But never your mind, Huck. I'll tell him on my own brother. Sid, that's me. When it comes to adventures, you just leave everything you need. Look at here, Huck. I bet I know where it's in there. No. Where? You leave everything in me, Hawk. You let me down by the asshopper after dark, and we'll get started. Park. Park. I'm not here, Tom. Look at that old cat's lair. A fork is waiting to be stored. Too bad there's no mold. Looks like I look at the old shed in there. Hey. That window's only got one board now to cry. That's big enough for him to cry.
I I could hope we could find a more complicated way than that. We'll have to dig in there. What? Good girl. Are you crazy? You could pull that door off in the window with one hand. If that ain't just like the accident, it's never had no books at all. Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in an old lady way like that? Alright. Alright, Tom. And don't take on. They're digging out. You know, there ought to be a wart needed to do. And the saw to cut off any fluid. Tommy, alright. Well, it got to be going around the bedpost. Now we gotta do it. Lift the bed. Nope. We gotta do it right. Stall the bed, swallow the sawdust so no one can tell. And when you're ready, one, take it off your goal.
But I'll need a rope ladder, Tom, how you talk? What in the making will you do with a rope ladder? Well, I ain't figured that out yet, but he's gotta have one. It's in all the books. Well, I figured Tom knew what he was doing. It didn't make sense to me, though. But he kept talking about the man in the iron mask and Casanova and another old folks folk. So I just done what he told me to do and kept shut. He gave me a list of stuff to get, though. Well, he call it borrowing because that's what pap call it. But, Tom, that wasn't borrowing. It was stealing.
Don't you know that, Huck? All state political prisoners steal the stuff to escape with. But he ain't not political prisoner. He's nothing but a runaway slave. You hard job, punk. We gotta get this stuff in again. I'll just lift the board off of that window. Hold on. Didn't I say we got a dig in? It's regulation. But alright if you say so. You get your pink eyes out, how can I start? Pink noise. Just wait a minute. Pippin trouble good enough to dig out a runaway slurry. There ain't no other way I let her but pink noise and we gotta do it that way. It may take years and years, years.
Yeah. Well, one of them prisoners in the shadow deep in Marseilles. That took him thirty eight years to escape and he came out in China. But he don't know anybody in China. I finally talked to Tom and be using ticks. But he said he let on at this case, and I had to keep the whole thing regular with the rule. In the meantime, old man talked to the plantation down in New Orleans that Tim was supposed to run off on. Of course, there weren't none. Then he began to talk about advertising and getting the papers. My blood run cold. Only I got time to agree to finish out the thing that night.
But, Tom, he added one more fancy touch and wrote an armless letter to uncle Silas telling him that someone was trying to run off him. So when we came to get the captive loose, flames were didn't get the warmest reception ever
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Yes, sir. You're a free man again, Jim. And it was a mighty good plan, Hook. I bet nobody could get up a plan what's more mixed up. Ain't that so, Tom? Oh. Oh.
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What's the matter, Tom?
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You're hurt, honey?
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Nothing much. I only got a bullet in my leg. Here.
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Let me see. We gotta stop that bleeding, hon.
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We've done it. An elegant escape. This is which is nothing at all. Poop that they don't look so good beneath Thomas.
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Well, Huck, weird look to me. If it was Tom being shot free and old Jim had been shot, Tom would say, we gotta get him a doctor. Never mind about me. That's Tom Sawyer. And that's guess what Jim's gonna say. If I gotta be a slave the rest of my life, we're gonna get Tom a doctor.
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Tom argued that Tim and I were firm. We pulled him in the raft and towed him over to where we could find a doctor. Tom sent me off to Scott around before the doctor came. And what did I do but the bump? Fighting the uncle Silas. Stop them all. Of course, I lied some. Get out of it. But if they took me off home, I didn't know what happened or anything. Then next morning, when a wagon drove up to the door with a crowd of men around it.
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Oh, no. No. What happened to you, boy?
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Right this time. Why don't I take the life to Nah. Just hold on. He's alright. I could have got away, but it stayed on to bring the boy to me so I could doctor him. He was hiding in the bush. The minute I said I need help, Summer, out he come and he was risking his freedom for that. So what I can't figure out is who left all them crazy notes and that rope line and the rest of that truck. This lady must have had an army helping him. Why no, Uncle Silas. We set the runaway slaves for you calling me. Good lord. I mean, you crazy boy. We done it. Someone got out of
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the book. Didn't we, Tom? Well, yes, it is. Let's see. Yeah. I hear you, buddy. Well, anyway, just say
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you better set him up again and tie him good. Come on, you? Yes, sir. Goodbye, Hunk.
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Tom? Hold on. You ain't got no right to set up Jim. She ain't no spanking. You're the same as any creature walks this way. What? Sure. Little Douglas died two months ago and left Jim free in her will. If she said she was ashamed, she said she'd come downriver. Why he's as free as you are. Then then why are you nasty towards the crazy hot just so he knows? That's just like a woman. For the adventure of a dapjack adventure. My lens must Silas, is this bad if he had a bullet hole? Well, that was you pretty soon have to own up the town early, Tom, and I will talk soon. Hey. You should have finance rally. Tom is the fear of sneaking out to the engine territory, having some howling adventures.
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I don't know, Tom.
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Don't sound so good to me. I ain't got the money to buy the outfit. A hundred pep junk it all up by now anyway.
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No, Huck. He ain't coming back no more. What's he mean, Jim? You remember that house was floating down the river, and there was a man in covered up? And I didn't let you in. You were hooked. The dead man in that howl, that was your back.
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Well, no. I guess there ain't nothing more to tell about. Now I'm rotten glad of it. If if I had known there was so much trouble, I wouldn't have tackled it. I reckon off the light offerings and territory. I pulled the rest of them because aunt Sally says he's gonna adopt me and civilize me. And I can't stand that. I've been there before.
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 ploppiness will be shot by order of the office.
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I'm up there. You don't know about me without you read a book called Tom Sawyer, but I'm Hopkin this time. If you did read that book, you'll remember Tom Sawyer and me on some money hit by Robert and Kate. Judge, he's the smartest man in Missouri, or he put the money out of interest. Before I was ready, I used to live in the woods, free and comfortable life. But after we found the money, the widow Douglas allowed to supervise me. It was awesome. Considering how dismal, regular, and decent the widow was in a way, Huckleberry, I will not have you smoking. It's a mean practice and play clean. Besides, 14 is too young.
Oh, that's the way it was. But when you close, vinyl, reading, selling books, I was ready to cut and run. Well, that's it. That was unusual. Huckleberry? Yes, ma'am. Don't squint up like that. Stop playing. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Just stop squirming, though. Huxpin, have you got the shoes off? Yes, ma'am. I declare sometimes I'm afraid you're gonna go up just like your father. Ma'am, the ghost in heart. You might as well go up to bed. I can't stand your citizen. I stood by the wind in my room, just scared, and tried to think of something fearful, like, aren't I you?
I got the down run of the stairs that I lit up my pipe, didn't care if the weather smelled or not, and the twigs snapped down the yard. Who's there? I'm sitting on your whisking and with a slave. Come on, Tom.
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Who is you? I I thought I the old wind. That's all. That's the old wind howling around.
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You don't need to start. Come on. Where is all this, Tom? We're gonna start a band of robbers called Tom Sawyer's band. Everybody will have to sign an open. Blood. Blood. Man, why? So he won't tell the You got a father, ain't you? I can't never find Tapsley today. He's like drunk drunk without hogs in a pandemic. Been he's been here for a year. Wait a minute. You could have the wood of Douglas to kill. I reckon that'll do. He's most family. Put the line of business for this little gang, Tom. Nothing much. Only murder and robbery. We're highwaymen real style.
We hold up characters on the Kings Highway. Kill the people. Sounds alright. Who do you figure on Highway First? I've got secret news from my spy that a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and a rich Arab with $200 and 600 cans of cans. I'd sure like to see them. They'll be in Florence in Cape Howard tomorrow afternoon. Now wait a minute, Tom Sawyer. That's a Sunday school picnic gonna be in Cape Howard tomorrow, and you know it. It'll just look like a Sunday school picnic. It's really ARABS. It's called done by enchantment. If you'd read that book, Darn It Behold it, you'd know all about it.
Tom, don't you get mad now. But I judged all that stuff in one of your book by. If you believe in an Arabs and elephants, then I'm going back to my room.
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New clothes, what? Pat,
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how'd you get
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ear? Think you're a big bug, don't you? Maybe. Now don't give me no lip. I'll take you down a peg before I'm through. Getting medicated, ain't you? Read, write too. Answer it. Yeah. Who told you you could meddle with that foolishness, Who told you? The widow. Peace on me. The widow, I'll learn her to meddle. And looky now, you dropped that school here. You were putting on airs, letting on to be better than your father. You hear, Huck? Yes, doc. I ain't the man to stand it. Now let me hear you read it. Here. Take up this book.
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Well, now walking maybe his headquarters three miles.
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You can do it. Look at that. A bed and a looking glass and a carpet, and your own father got to sleep with a hogs and a tanyard. They say you're rich. Got money.
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Have you, hey? I ain't got it.
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That's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it, and you're gonna get it for your old father, or I'll take him to law. Now come on with me. But I wanna see You, coming when your pap says so? Are you, hey? Yes,
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Pat picked me up living at KISS, across the cabin on the on the shore. He spent time getting drunk and licking me with a cow eyed drop. He got right handy with a hit bit too, and I was all over well. He locked me in for three days running, then came back stronger than ever. Call this a gun.
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That's what I said. Just look at it. Papa got to the store. Here's the law taking a man's own son away from him. His own son after I had all the expense to raise and me what should be the richest man in town. That's what I told him. Me lying in the mud in the gutter. This jug's empty. You've been stealing my liquor. You've drunk it all, Pat. There, you see? Call that government when a man can't even keep a full jug. You stay here, boy. Here, I'm going to town for whiskey, and I'm cutting a three inch hickory on the way back. I'll learn a boy to say he's better than his pap.
When I get back, I'm gonna see what color your backbone is. You hear?
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Pat was so drunk he forgot to lock the door, and I was gonna wait for him to come back. I loaded up a fifth canoe we'd hauled in, and I took Pat's gunner, shot me a wild pig, spread him all over the cabin floor, and spreaded up the axe good, stuck some of my hairs on it. I reckon they'd figure the robbers got me and dumped me in the Mississippi, and I'd be the end. Then I cut for the canoe, stubs out any risk. About two miles downstream, I pulled up on Jackson Drive. It was great dawn by now. There was freckle places on the ground where light had shifted down through the lead. A couple of squirrels sat on the limb and dabbled at me thunder.
I jumped there when I smelled smoke. Somebody had a campfire going on Jackson's Island. I went car and slow, but not slow enough. I stepped on a twig. I cracked like a rifle. Who's there? Tim? Is that the Widow Douglas' gym?
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Hook? Is that hook in here? What are you doing now at roaming?
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I run away from Pat, Tim. He's about gonna finish me. I fixed it so it looked like Barbara's done.
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No. Hey. That's even better than Tom Sawyer could've done.
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Hey. What are you doing on, Jack and Jack?
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Well, maybe I'd better not tell. Why, Jim? There's reason. You wouldn't tell on me with your hook. You promise?
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Do it, Jim. I promise.
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Alright. I run off.
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Damn. How come you do a thing like that?
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Well, old widow Douglas, she said she'd never sailed me off down to New Orleans. But I'm gonna tell miss Watson she's a goner for $800, and I didn't wait to hear no more. I led out for the river, and I come over to the island. You won't tell where you're headed.
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Yeah. I wouldn't.
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So Jim can help you, honey. Then get in bird. That's a sign it's gonna ring. You best find a table, Misty Eye. It's gonna rain powerful.
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For the birds was ripe. Rain for about a week, and river was riding fast. All such things began to pile up on land. We fixed out a big piece of grass, figured we could use it. Once even our house came sitting down and grounded on a snack. Ken looked inside and came out with some old clothes and stuff. I put on a calico gown with sun down. Allowed I'd settle over the Elmore Shore and find out what was up. Come in. Hi, ma'am. Well, little girl, and what might your name be? Well, that's a considerable way. You better stay here and rest of us. Here, take off your bonnet.
No. I left around the door last year. Okay. I don't know if That's right. A boy named Huck Finn. Some think his father done it himself. No. He's there soon. Old Finn come here to get him winced, but nobody could find him. But now folks judge it was done by a runaway slave named Jim. Hey. There's a $300 reward. My husband's gonna look for him soon as he gets back from town. Somebody saw smoke on Jackson's Island. Jackson's. Now here, honey. Wind this yarn around his hands like a good girl. Yes, ma'am. Wait. You're asking me to go over here? It went upriver to borrow another gun. Stella, catch this yarn in your lap here.
Got it. Come on now. What's your real name? It's Robert. Is it Bill or Tom or Bob or what? Please, I take one of the payer garage. Oh, now you sit down. I ain't gonna hurt you. Now just tell me your secret, son. I'll keep it. That's your runaway apprentice. Now tell me all about it. Oh, yes, ma'am. I run off from the farm where I was found to to beat you something awful. I've been traveling three days. You're a fine boy, That's right. Quick. When a cow gets up, we can get up first. I'm in. A whore. Sorry, ma'am. Country boy. Alright. Now what's your real name?
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George Peterson. Well, remember it, George.
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Don't tell me it's Alexander Laird. It's George, ma'am. And don't go trying to fool a woman in that dress. And mind you, when a girl catches anything in her lap, she throws her knees apart to spread her skirt. Don't clap them together the way you did to catch that yarn. Now plop along, Sarah Mary William George Alexander, and keep out of trouble. Tim? Tim? Yeah, hon? Yeah. He is in the bush. Yep. Not to tell Tim. We're in a minute alone. We gotta get the raft out on the river. They're after
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it.
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So it's loaded along. Arguin, pleasant life. They figured three nights tomorrow, set the Cairo. Then we take a steamboat up to three states to be out of trouble.
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Look, Sharfucker. Because if we miss Carlo, I'll be back in a slave country again and no more shore freedom. No, sir.
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I don't know if you're in a false city, sir.
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The first thing I'll do in a free state, I'll save my money, never spend a single cent. No, sir. And I'll get enough, and I'll buy my wife off old man's farm, and I'll buy my children free. When we get to Cairo, I'm gonna be free. You understand the thing? I'm gonna be Are they gonna get all free? Pay the hell out of the free and need a plane for. Yeah. Yeah. Now steal my two children, all three with me to the North.
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Hear that talk, Austin? Is this team? Coming outside of the state, he's still a stone. Still not belong to a man. I don't know. He never done me no harm. That's it.
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That's Carroy at last. I just know it. It don't look right to me, Jim. Pretty soon I'll be jumping for joy, and I'll say it's all on a counterpucker. How the pre man and help done it? Jim will ever forget no. No, sir. You're the best friend Jim has. The only friend Jim's got now.
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We run down river the rest of the night. A thin stain in his eyes through the fog to see Cairo. The mist came in so thick it couldn't even see the lights on the Illinois shore. We asked the fella. He crushed at us and told us Cairo we'd be way down the river. When the daylight came, I dipped up some water to drink.
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Look at that, Hook. That's clean, Ohio water in shore, not the old muddy Mississippi.
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So when fire Cairo in the pub last night, mister Queen
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Don't let talk about it, Hook. Poor slave can't have no luck.
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You should have to stand him. I should have It ain't your fault, Hook.
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Don't pin yourself, boy.
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Hey.
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He means to cave off the turn, old Hook. Impalas don't care about no rat. Seriously, just what? See, no use Hook. Steve's run over. Just the gentleman. Hey, you. Yeah. Yeah.
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Talk about bad luck. Couldn't find you in the rascal next night. We had fixed the steering seat. This time, Tim rigged up a wily on ornery raft at bad weather now. Two, three days, nights, they're gone. Quiet, it's made lovely. Then one morning, just we were getting ready to shovel. We heard a monster sky high of dogs in the water.
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Oh, young man. You've stayed our lives. I'm sure this gentleman is as faithful as I. What's the matter? Don't you know each other? Never had pleasure. We met on the footpath outside town. That's quite a pride you had, old timer. How come you was a run-in? Well, I was conducting a little temperance revival, clearing as much as 5 or $6 a night when, one of the faithful found me tell me with a gun, but they had a jar of oil in them the rail out so I didn't wait for breakfast. And you, my friend. Well, sir, I've been selling an article to take the potter off too. It does take it off too and the enamel along with it. I stayed about one night longer than I ought it. Old man, I reckon we ought a noble team. Sure. Sounds right to me.
What is your line mostly? Old journeyman printer, patent medicine, creator acting, tragedy, you know, mesmerism, phonology, and a lot of all this. What's your line? Mostly doctrine, laying on the hands and such.
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Preaching and missioneering too. Look, there ain't no butt in here, but I figure it's your riding around for maybe one of your man's feet for a while. The suite?
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Oh, the food. That's right. We take turns. Yes. I see. Alana. Well, what are you all asking about? To think that I should be degraded down to this company. What's wrong with this company? Oh, it's alright for you, I guess. Someday, I will lie down and my poor broken heart will rest. So what do you hear when you're brokenhearted us first? Done nothing. Oh, you would not believe me. The world never believed. Let it pass. There's no matter the secret of my birth. What? Gentlemen, I have confidence in you. My right, I am a duke.
No. You can't mean I am the rightful duke of Bridgewater, and here am I, pawned from my estate by usurper, despite it by the world, degraded the companionship of Velen on a raft. Now don't cry. Oh, dear. It would make me a typo happier if you called me your grace or even bread water. That's my title, you know. And of course, gentlemen, I cannot do any manual labor. Uh-huh.
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Well, I guess you can't stand what your lordship. The other one I'm Look here, Bill
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Dwater. Bridgewater. I'm a nation sorry for you, but you ain't the only one that didn't take wrongfully out of our high place. I do have the secret of my birth. No. Look at that, Can I trust you in the day of death? I am the late dulph the what? The disappeared dulphate, Louis the seventeenth, son of Louis the sixteenth of Mary Antoinette, the rightful king of France. At your age, then I would consider it a kindness if you would address me as your majesty. And naturally, that is, of course, I cannot do too mean your labor. Gloria Hook, ain't it grand to have honest to goodness royalty on the raft?
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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these lies aren't no kings or dukes, but I never said nothing. We kept your grace thing in your magazine, and everything got a long spine. I told him Jim was my property, and I was taking him down to my Uncle Ben's place below New Orleans. Now you're sure he ain't a runaway slave? Would a runaway run south? Well, how come you travel at night? Well, folks kept trying to get him away from me saying he was a fugitive. They don't bother us none at night. Mhmm.
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Well, we'll figure something out about that. Sure. Speaking of figuring, my dear Duke, it's, time we laid out a campaign. Well, now just by chance, my dear Dauphin, I have here in my pocket back several play bills left over from my last engagement in Drury Lane Theatre, London. You mean theater actors? Have you never thought of the board as royalty? No. You shall, fallen grandeur. The first good town we come to, we'll hire a hall and do Romeo and Juliet. Oh, it's alright with me if it pays, Bill's water. I don't know much about play action, though, that I was too small. I was happy to have them at the palace in France. Yeah. Well, do not worry. I will learn you. I'll be Romeo, and you will be his pretty sweetheart, Juliet. Hey. Wait a minute. If Juliet's a young girl, Duke, ain't my peeled dome and white whiskers gonna look uncommon art on us? Don't worry. These country jakes will never think of it.
Well, gentlemen, I've been up to the village and had quite an afternoon working in the local print shop. Working is well, in a manner of speaking. I took in $10 worth of advertisements for the town newspaper, sold three cut rate subscriptions. Total, $9.
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Not counting this jug. Here. Where is your paper to take out for?
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My boy, you do not have the proper outlook. And, what's more, gentlemen? I fixed it so we can travel in the daytime.
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Here. It's a plate handbill. Runaway, man. Saint Jeff's Plantation, New Orleans.
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2 Hundred Dollars A Year. Yeah. This way we can make out we're taking him down for the reward. And here's my masterpiece. Look at the beautiful typography.
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The Experian revival,
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one night only. The world renowned tragedian Edwin Keane, the elder of the Royal Haymarket Theatre of Pudding Lane, London. That's you.
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And David Garrett, the younger of the Surrey Lane Theatre. That is me. From the sublime six Syrian Spectacles, the Balcony King, and Romeo and Juliet. Admissions, 25¢.
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Ladies and children not admitted. And if that don't get them, I don't know Arkansas. Well, your majesty, we gotta rehearse some more and we gotta figure out some encore. What's encore, Stillswater? Never mind, Dauphin. I've got one for you that'll just set the town right back on its ear. Tonight, majesty, the place to sing.
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We tied up at the next town, and the Duke went and hired the courthouse, stuck up the bills. Wasn't much at the town hall. The streets was mostly mud. There ain't been any paint on the houses since Columbus's time. The men stood around leaning on something in a wetland. They spent most of their time following tobacco
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like this. Give me a jaw tobacco, man. It's got but one left. Lend me one hand. I'll give my last to Ben Thompson. You give him one? When you pay me back all the chores, I'll gov you're ready. Didn't pay you back once. Why are you stored at back here? Gov back homegrown. What's that? Mhmm. When somebody is getting tired of having a child, come on. Let's go to them.
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Well, that's the way life went in that town. Turned out there was a circus in town that day.
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And about noon, it was quite crowded. Somebody sets up a holler. Sir, Here comes old Bob in from the country for his monthly run. I wonder who's gonna show up this time. Oh, he never hurts nobody. He's the best naturedest fool in Arkansas. Drunk or sober. Got a jug in each hand.
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I'm a Wayne, tell Alex Garrett, Olivia and Harvey. That's who I am. I'm a war fan, and the price of coffin I'm a
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bonafide. I'm tired of this. I warned you last week not to open your mouth against me. I don't care. I'm a mean, tough grizzly, and He killed it. The old Bob's never done the harm. He's mad. He ought to get coming. Yeah. And I got another barrel of that shotgun. Yeah. Yeah, dear. You're linting anybody. Any real lynching is gonna be done, it'll be done in proper southern fashion. You'll come at night and bring your mask and plenty of liquor for quick courage. Now get out before I let go of the other barrel.
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That crowd is broke apart and went every which way. Apparently, this older old shotgun marched away. Later on, I see two of them playing balls in the colonel, took each other down. Everybody said they'd done it perfect and gave him pennies. That's the kind of town it was. That night, we had our show. As soon as Romeo,
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they just made an announcement. And now for an editor, mister King will 27, 20 eight. Not bad for a one might stand a majesty. Now shall we return to our boudoir and sample this here in serial nectar? Well, just now you're talking, Billgewater. Give me here. I've laid it down the Yeah. Yeah. Don't it surprise you the way these things carry on? No records from the breed. But, Hook, these kings aren't on regular rat counts. That's what they is.
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That's what I'm a saying. They always molted. Take all Henry the eighth. I ought to see him when he was thinking.
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What did he do?
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He used to marry a new wife every day and chop her head off in the morning.
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And you do things in business if you are. I don't know.
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Best of your Gwynnys day. Next morning, the friend of that old time thing's honor went to Lamb. I get seen the king.
[00:30:10] Unknown:
Pipe to your pipe team? Oh, thank you, You know, I was thinking, I was feeling real good. What, Jim? Well, mind me at the time I treat my little Elizabeth so hungry. She was only about four years old, and she took scarlet fever. Then one day, she's better. And she's just standing there. And I said, check the door. And she never done it. Just stood there kind of smiling. I said it again, mighty loud. There's that door. But she never paid me no mind. Then I fetched her, slapped by the head, but she just standing. Just then long come the wind and slam the door behind her. Kablam. And she never moved.
My breath almost caught right out of me. And that door slammed again. And she don't never buzzed. Huck, I just bust out crying. And I said, Lord God Almighty, forgive a four old Jim because he's never gonna forgive himself as long as he lives. Huck, that little child, he was plumbed deaf. And I've been treating her so, and now I ain't never gonna see Elizabeth again. But maybe, Hook, maybe I'll buy her free. That's what I'll do. I'll buy her free.
[00:31:59] Unknown:
We were down south now. We began to come on completely Spanish mall, raining down like long gray beard. A king and a duke a plumb out of money then. Finally, it went down and tried selling fortune, but the mayor got tarred and feathers. Next town after that, they sent me out to buy a jug. And when I got back, there was nobody on the raft.
[00:32:21] Unknown:
It's in the camper Duke. You,
[00:32:24] Unknown:
looking for somebody for me? Yeah. Then you've seen a a slave somewhere about, big fellas? Well, still, they,
[00:32:34] Unknown:
they got a runaway. No. A runaway? Yeah. Down to Silas Self's place. They're holding them for the reward. You're looking for him?
[00:32:45] Unknown:
Nobody got hurt today. I mean, when they caught him. No.
[00:32:49] Unknown:
$200 reward for him, though. Like picking money off in the road. It is. Wish I had it. Who held him, mister? An old fella. Strange. Yeah. Sold his chest and the reward for $40 because he can't wait. He has to go up river. An old fella, mister? Yeah. Old goat with whiskers. That's right, son. Had a handbill with his slave to turn it in all. Sold them for $40. Boy, if it was me, you'd bet I'd take that whole 200. Yes, sir. Just like picking money off on the road.
[00:33:41] Unknown:
I sat up there watching the river, think until I wore my head soft. After all this long journey and the sound was at the heart to make him a slave again. In all for forty years dollars, I thought maybe I should write the widow where Jim was so he could be with friends anyway. Then Then I started to get around and help them help the slave to get a feeling. I couldn't stand that. Then I got to thinking about our trip downriver. And since then, I was the only son who had left in the whole world, I figured I might as well be good and wicked. It. And for a starter, I peeled him out of flavor again.
I started over to Phelps. Where I thought I said they had Jim. I was all still on Sunday night. When I got there, the dooryard was empty. And out in the slave cabin, I heard a spinning wheel, honey, waving along up and thinking down again. I wish I was dead, but that's the lunkiest sound in the world. Then suddenly the dog was piling on the house.
[00:35:23] Unknown:
Welcome, boy. We've been expecting it for a couple of days no more. Why is your baggage down to the t boat right in?
[00:35:30] Unknown:
I I also wouldn't have bought one of them. Boy, that's too bad, but I reckon we can fix you up. Oh, here we are running on you. Jane told us a word about the family up the river. And now you just sit down and tell me everything. Just all about it. Every last thing you can think of. Well, it's not that your time goes alone. Why is Sonia standing like you don't know your own name? Well, I well, from what I heard, I never thought I'd see the date when I just stuttering and lollygagging from Tom Sawyer. Well, Matt, Tom Sawyer.
I guess, I almost jumped through the floor. So that's what they did for. And I told them more about my family. I mean, the story of family. It could've happened in a million years. Then I said to myself, suppose real time comes down the steamboat landing, please out my name before I'm coming away to keep it quiet. Well, I was on a sweat, so I told the folks I had to go down and mail a letter. And they're coming up in the works, sure enough, I met Tom. I ain't never done you no harm. Why do you wanna come back to haunt me for? I ain't come back. I ain't getting gone.
I ain't getting you're in a ghost? Honestly, you're in a ghost? Honestly, looky here. Weren't you even murdered at all? Nah. I played on it. Now we're in fair grand adventure. Yes, sir. What are you doing down here, You won't tell nobody, Tom. There's a slave there. I'm a trying to steal out of slavery. Oh, with a Douglas assistant. What? Why did it? I know what you'll say. It's really low down, stupid, but I don't care. I'm I'm low down and well, all I want you to do is not let on. Will you, Tom? Look. I'll help you steal it. No. You tell me where it is. He is your uncle Sally's estate, and that's another thing.
I don't know what we're gonna do, but safe and time, Tom. Well, what is this? But never your mind, Huck. I'll tell him on my own brother. Sid, that's me. When it comes to adventures, you just leave everything you need. Look at here, Huck. I bet I know where it's in there. No. Where? You leave everything in me, Hawk. You let me down by the asshopper after dark, and we'll get started. Park. Park. I'm not here, Tom. Look at that old cat's lair. A fork is waiting to be stored. Too bad there's no mold. Looks like I look at the old shed in there. Hey. That window's only got one board now to cry. That's big enough for him to cry.
I I could hope we could find a more complicated way than that. We'll have to dig in there. What? Good girl. Are you crazy? You could pull that door off in the window with one hand. If that ain't just like the accident, it's never had no books at all. Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in an old lady way like that? Alright. Alright, Tom. And don't take on. They're digging out. You know, there ought to be a wart needed to do. And the saw to cut off any fluid. Tommy, alright. Well, it got to be going around the bedpost. Now we gotta do it. Lift the bed. Nope. We gotta do it right. Stall the bed, swallow the sawdust so no one can tell. And when you're ready, one, take it off your goal.
But I'll need a rope ladder, Tom, how you talk? What in the making will you do with a rope ladder? Well, I ain't figured that out yet, but he's gotta have one. It's in all the books. Well, I figured Tom knew what he was doing. It didn't make sense to me, though. But he kept talking about the man in the iron mask and Casanova and another old folks folk. So I just done what he told me to do and kept shut. He gave me a list of stuff to get, though. Well, he call it borrowing because that's what pap call it. But, Tom, that wasn't borrowing. It was stealing.
Don't you know that, Huck? All state political prisoners steal the stuff to escape with. But he ain't not political prisoner. He's nothing but a runaway slave. You hard job, punk. We gotta get this stuff in again. I'll just lift the board off of that window. Hold on. Didn't I say we got a dig in? It's regulation. But alright if you say so. You get your pink eyes out, how can I start? Pink noise. Just wait a minute. Pippin trouble good enough to dig out a runaway slurry. There ain't no other way I let her but pink noise and we gotta do it that way. It may take years and years, years.
Yeah. Well, one of them prisoners in the shadow deep in Marseilles. That took him thirty eight years to escape and he came out in China. But he don't know anybody in China. I finally talked to Tom and be using ticks. But he said he let on at this case, and I had to keep the whole thing regular with the rule. In the meantime, old man talked to the plantation down in New Orleans that Tim was supposed to run off on. Of course, there weren't none. Then he began to talk about advertising and getting the papers. My blood run cold. Only I got time to agree to finish out the thing that night.
But, Tom, he added one more fancy touch and wrote an armless letter to uncle Silas telling him that someone was trying to run off him. So when we came to get the captive loose, flames were didn't get the warmest reception ever
[00:42:57] Unknown:
Yes, sir. You're a free man again, Jim. And it was a mighty good plan, Hook. I bet nobody could get up a plan what's more mixed up. Ain't that so, Tom? Oh. Oh.
[00:43:11] Unknown:
What's the matter, Tom?
[00:43:13] Unknown:
You're hurt, honey?
[00:43:14] Unknown:
Nothing much. I only got a bullet in my leg. Here.
[00:43:20] Unknown:
Let me see. We gotta stop that bleeding, hon.
[00:43:24] Unknown:
We've done it. An elegant escape. This is which is nothing at all. Poop that they don't look so good beneath Thomas.
[00:43:34] Unknown:
Well, Huck, weird look to me. If it was Tom being shot free and old Jim had been shot, Tom would say, we gotta get him a doctor. Never mind about me. That's Tom Sawyer. And that's guess what Jim's gonna say. If I gotta be a slave the rest of my life, we're gonna get Tom a doctor.
[00:44:09] Unknown:
Tom argued that Tim and I were firm. We pulled him in the raft and towed him over to where we could find a doctor. Tom sent me off to Scott around before the doctor came. And what did I do but the bump? Fighting the uncle Silas. Stop them all. Of course, I lied some. Get out of it. But if they took me off home, I didn't know what happened or anything. Then next morning, when a wagon drove up to the door with a crowd of men around it.
[00:44:35] Unknown:
Oh, no. No. What happened to you, boy?
[00:44:51] Unknown:
Right this time. Why don't I take the life to Nah. Just hold on. He's alright. I could have got away, but it stayed on to bring the boy to me so I could doctor him. He was hiding in the bush. The minute I said I need help, Summer, out he come and he was risking his freedom for that. So what I can't figure out is who left all them crazy notes and that rope line and the rest of that truck. This lady must have had an army helping him. Why no, Uncle Silas. We set the runaway slaves for you calling me. Good lord. I mean, you crazy boy. We done it. Someone got out of
[00:45:26] Unknown:
the book. Didn't we, Tom? Well, yes, it is. Let's see. Yeah. I hear you, buddy. Well, anyway, just say
[00:45:33] Unknown:
you better set him up again and tie him good. Come on, you? Yes, sir. Goodbye, Hunk.
[00:45:41] Unknown:
Tom? Hold on. You ain't got no right to set up Jim. She ain't no spanking. You're the same as any creature walks this way. What? Sure. Little Douglas died two months ago and left Jim free in her will. If she said she was ashamed, she said she'd come downriver. Why he's as free as you are. Then then why are you nasty towards the crazy hot just so he knows? That's just like a woman. For the adventure of a dapjack adventure. My lens must Silas, is this bad if he had a bullet hole? Well, that was you pretty soon have to own up the town early, Tom, and I will talk soon. Hey. You should have finance rally. Tom is the fear of sneaking out to the engine territory, having some howling adventures.
[00:46:51] Unknown:
I don't know, Tom.
[00:46:52] Unknown:
Don't sound so good to me. I ain't got the money to buy the outfit. A hundred pep junk it all up by now anyway.
[00:47:02] Unknown:
No, Huck. He ain't coming back no more. What's he mean, Jim? You remember that house was floating down the river, and there was a man in covered up? And I didn't let you in. You were hooked. The dead man in that howl, that was your back.
[00:47:31] Unknown:
Well, no. I guess there ain't nothing more to tell about. Now I'm rotten glad of it. If if I had known there was so much trouble, I wouldn't have tackled it. I reckon off the light offerings and territory. I pulled the rest of them because aunt Sally says he's gonna adopt me and civilize me. And I can't stand that. I've been there before.
Introduction and Warning
Huck's Background and Life with Widow Douglas
Tom Sawyer's Band of Robbers
Huck's Encounter with Pap
Escape from Pap and Jackson's Island
Meeting Jim on Jackson's Island
Journey Down the River
The Duke and the King
The Royal Nonesuch
The Town and the Circus
Jim's Capture and Huck's Dilemma
Huck's Plan to Rescue Jim
The Escape and Tom's Injury
Jim's Freedom and the Truth About Pap
Conclusion and Huck's Future Plans
