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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

That's the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we'd a had him along 'stead of our kings, he'd a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done. I don't say that ourn is lambs because they ain't, when you come right down to the cold facts; but they ain't nothing to that old ram, anyway. All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised."


? ? ? ? "But dis one do smell so like de nation, Huck."


? ? ? ? "Well, they all do, Jim. We can't help the way a king smells; history don't tell no way."


? ? ? ? "Now de duke, he's a tolerble likely man, in some ways."


? ? ? ? "Yes, a duke's different. But not very different. This one's a middling hard lot, for a duke. When he's drunk, there ain't no near-sighted man could tell him from a king."


? ? ? ? "Well, anyways, I doan' hanker for no mo' un um, Huck. Dese is all I kin stan'."


? ? ? ? "It's the way I feel, too, Jim. But we've got them on our hands, and we got to remember what they are, and make allowances.


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