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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last
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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last

    By Mark Twain

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last
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    Mark Twain

    Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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      Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last - Mark Twain

      HUCKLEBERRY FINN, By Mark Twain, Part 8.

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 8

      by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 8

      Chapters XXXVI. to The Last

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: June 28, 2004 [EBook #7107]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUCKLEBERRY FINN, PART 8. ***

      Produced by David Widger

      ADVENTURES

      OF

      HUCKLEBERRY FINN

      (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

      By Mark Twain

      Part 8.

      CONTENTS.

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      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 trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.

      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 XXXVI.

      AS soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work.  We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five foot along the middle of the bottom log.  Tom said we was right behind Jim's bed now, and we'd dig in under it, and when we got through there couldn't nobody in the cabin ever know there was any hole there, because Jim's counter-pin hung down most to the ground, and you'd have to raise it up and look under to see the hole.  So we dug and dug with the case-knives till most midnight; and then we was dog-tired, and our hands was blistered, and yet you couldn't see we'd done anything hardly.  At last I says:

      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, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry; and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up right along, year in and year out, and do it right, and the way it ought to be done.  But WE can't fool along; we got to rush; we ain't got no time to spare.  If we was to put in another night this way we'd have to knock off for a week to let our hands get well—couldn't touch a case-knife with them sooner.

      Well, then, what we going to do, Tom?

      I'll tell you.  It ain't right, and it ain't moral, and I wouldn't like it to get out; but there ain't only just the one way:  we got to dig him out with the picks, and LET ON it's case-knives.

      NOW you're TALKING!  I says; your head gets leveler and leveler all the time, Tom Sawyer, I says.  Picks is the thing, moral or no moral; and as for me, I don't care shucks for the morality of it, nohow.  When I start in to steal a nigger, or a watermelon, or a Sunday-school book, I ain't no ways particular how it's done so it's done.  What I want is my nigger; or what I want is my watermelon; or what I want is my Sunday- school book; and if a pick's the handiest thing, that's the thing I'm a- going to dig that nigger or that watermelon or that Sunday-school book out with; and I don't give a dead rat what the authorities thinks about it nuther.

      Well, he says, there's excuse for picks and letting-on in a case like this; if it warn't so, I wouldn't approve of it, nor I wouldn't stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.  It might answer for YOU to dig Jim out with a pick, WITHOUT any letting on, because you don't know no better; but it wouldn't for me, because I do know better.  Gimme a case-knife.

      He had his own by him, but I handed him mine.  He flung it

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