The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

We see it warn't no use, we got to go and fetch Jim. So he raised up his bed and slid the chain off of the bed-leg, and wrapt it round and round his neck, and we crawled out through our hole and down there, and Jim and me laid into the grindstone and walked her along like nothing; and Tom superintended. He could out-superintend any boy I ever see. He knowed how to do everything.

? ? ? ? Our hole was pretty big, but it warn't big enough to get the grindstone through; but Jim he took the pick and soon make it big enough. Then Tom marked out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of his candle quit on him, and then he could go to bed, and hide the grindstone under his straw tick and sleep on it. Then we helped him fix his chain back on the bed-leg, and was ready for bed ourselves. But Tom thought of something, and says:

? ? ? ? "You got any spiders in here, Jim?"

? ? ? ? "No, sah, thanks to goodness I hain't, Mars Tom."

? ? ? ? "All right, we'll get you some.

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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"