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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

I stood by the duke at the door, and I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging or something muffled up under his coat- and I see it warn't no perfumery neither, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me, I couldn't stand it. Well, when the place couldn't hold no more people, the duke he give a fellow a quarter and told him to tend door for him a minute, and then he started around for the stage door, I after him; but the minute we turned the corner and was in the dark, he says:


? ? ? ? "Walk fast, now, till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you!"


? ? ? ? I done it, and he done the same. We struck the raft at the same time, and in less than two seconds we was gliding down stream, all dark and still, and edging towards the middle of the river, nobody saying a word. I reckoned the poor king was in for a gaudy time of it with the audience; but nothing of the sort; pretty soon he crawls out from under the wigwam, and says:


? ? ? ? "Well, how'd the old thing pan out this time, Duke?"


? ? ? ? He hadn't been up town at all.


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