The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

Why, drat it, Huck, it's the stupidest arrangement I ever see. You got to invent all the difficulties. Well, we can't help it, we got to do the best we can with the materials we've got. Anyhow, there's one thing- there's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't one of them furnished to you by the people who it was their duty to furnish them, and you had to contrive them all out of your own head. Now look at just that one thing of the lantern. When you come down to the cold facts, we simply got to let on that a lantern's resky. Why, we could work with a torchlight procession if we wanted to, I believe. Now, whilst I think of it, we got to hunt up something to make a saw out of, the first chance we get."

? ? ? ? "What do we want of a saw?"

? ? ? ? "What do we want of it? Hain't we got to saw the leg of Jim's bed off, so as to get the chain loose?"

? ? ? ? "Why, you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off."

? ? ? ? "Well, if that ain't just like you, Huck Finn. You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of going at a thing.

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"