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? ? ? ? "Who done it? We've heard considerable about these goings on, down in Hookerville, but we don't know who 'twas that killed Huck Finn."

? ? ? ? "Well, I reckon there's a right smart chance of people here that'd like to know who killed him. Some thinks old Finn done it himself."

? ? ? ? "No- is that so?"

? ? ? ? "Most everybody thought it at first. He'll never know how nigh he come to getting lynched. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim."

? ? ? ? "Why he-"

? ? ? ? I stopped. I reckoned I better keep still. She run on, and never noticed I had put in at all.

? ? ? ? "The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there's a reward out for him- three hundred dollars. And there's a reward out for old Finn too- two hundred dollars.


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