? ? ? ? "I know what you'll say. You'll say it's dirty low-down business; but what if it is?- I'm low down; and I'm agoing to steal him, and I want you to keep mum and not let on. Will you?"
? ? ? ? His eye lit up, and he says:
? ? ? ? "I'll help you steal him!"
? ? ? ? Well, I let go all holts then, like I was shot. It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard- and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn't believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!
? ? ? ? "Oh, shucks," I says, "you're joking."
? ? ? ? "I ain't joking, either."
? ? ? ? "Well, then," I says, "joking or no joking, if you hear anything said about a runaway nigger, don't forget to remember that you don't know nothing about him, and I don't know nothing about him."
? ? ? ? Then we took the trunk and put it in my wagon and he drove off his way, and I drove mine. But of course I forgot all about driving slow, on accounts of being glad and full of thinking; so I got home a heap too quick for that length of a trip.
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