The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

Why, hain't you ever read any books at all?- Baron Trenck, nor Casanova, nor Benvenuto Chelleeny, nor Henri IV., nor none of them heroes? Whoever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old-maidy way as that? No; the way all the best authorities does, is to saw the bed-leg in two, and leave it just so, and swallow the sawdust, so it can't be found, and put some dirt and grease around the sawed place so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign of its being sawed, and thinks the bed-leg is perfectly sound. Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. Nothing to do but hitch your rope-ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat- because a rope-ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know- and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle and away you go, to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is. It's gaudy, Huck. I wish there was a moat to this cabin. If we get time, the night of the escape, we'll dig one."

? ? ? ? I says:

? ? ? ? "What do we want of a moat, when we're going to snake him out from under the cabin?"

? ? ? ? But he never heard me.

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"