Hain't you ben gone away?"
? ? ? ? "Gone away? Why, what in the nation do you mean? I hain't been gone anywheres. Where would I go to?"
? ? ? ? "Well, looky here, boss, dey's sumf'n wrong, dey is. Is I me, or who is I? Is I heah, or whah is I? Now dat's what I wants to know?"
? ? ? ? "Well, I think you're here, plain enough, but I think you're a tangle-headed old fool, Jim."
? ? ? ? "I is, is I? Well you answer me dis. Didn't you tote out de line in de canoe, fer to make fas' to de tow-head?"
? ? ? ? "No, I didn't. What tow-head? I hain't seen no tow-head."
? ? ? ? "You hain't seen no tow-head? Looky here- didn't de line pull loose en de raf' go a hummin' down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog?"
? ? ? ? "What fog?"
? ? ? ? "Why de fog. De fog dat's ben aroun' all night. En didn't you whoop, en didn't I whoop, tell we got mix' up in de islands en one un us got los' en 'tother one was jis' as good as los', 'kase he didn' know whah he wuz? En didn't I bust up again a lot er dem islands en have a turrible time en mos' git drownded? Now ain'dat so, boss- ain't it so? You answer me dat.
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