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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

They made the king tell his yarn, and they made the old gentleman tell his'n; and anybody but a lot of prejudiced chuckleheads would a seen that the old gentleman was spinning truth and t'other one lies. And by-and-by they had me up to tell what I knowed. The king he give me a left-handed look out of the corner of his eye, and so I knowed enough to talk on the right side. I begun to tell about Sheffield, and how we lived there, and all about the English Wilkses, and so on; but I didn't get pretty fur till the doctor begun to laugh; and Levi Bell, the lawyer, says:


? ? ? ? "Set down, my boy, I wouldn't strain myself, if I was you. I reckon you ain't used to lying, it don't seem to come handy; what you want is practice. You do it pretty awkward."


? ? ? ? I didn't care nothing for the compliment, but I was glad to be let off, anyway.


? ? ? ? The doctor he started to say something, and turns and says:


? ? ? ? "If you'd been in town at first, Levi Bell-"


? ? ? ? The king broke in and reached out his hand, and says:


? ? ? ? "Why, is this my poor dead brother's old friend that he's wrote so often about?"


? ? ? ? The lawyer and him shook hands, and the lawyer smiled and looked pleased, and they talked right along a while, and then got to one side and talked low; and at last the lawyer speaks up and says:


? ? ? ? "That'll fix it.


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