The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

I asked her to let me think a minute; and she set there, very impatient and excited, and handsome, but looking kind of happy and eased-up, like a person that's had a tooth pulled out. So I went to studying it out. I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't had no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better, and actuly safer, than a lie. I must lay it by in my mind, and think it over some time or other, it's so kind of strange and unregular. I never see nothing like it. Well, I says to myself at last, I'm agoing to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to. Then I says:

? ? ? ? "Miss Mary Jane, is there any place out of town a little ways, where you could go and stay three or four days?"

? ? ? ? "Yes- Mr. Lathrop's. Why?"

? ? ? ? "Never mind why, yet. If I tell you how I know the niggers will see each other again- inside of two weeks- here in this house- and prove how I know it- will you go to Mr.

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"