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Twain, Mark

"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

Then we struck out, easy and comfortable, for the island where my raft was; and we could hear them yelling and barking at each other all up and down the bank, till we was so far away the sounds got dim and died out. And when we stepped onto the raft, I says:


? ? ? ? "Now, old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more."


? ? ? ? "En a mighty good job it wuz, too, Huck. It 'uz planned beautiful, en it 'uz done beautiful; en dey ain't nobody kin git up a plan dat's mo' mixed-up en splendid den what dat one wuz."


? ? ? ? We was all as glad as we could be, but Tom was the gladdest of all, because he had a bullet in the calf of his leg.


? ? ? ? When me and Jim heard that, we didn't feel so brash as what we did before. It was hurting him considerble, and bleeding; so we laid him in the wigwam and tore up one of the duke's shirts for to bandage him, but he says:


? ? ? ? "Gimme the rags, I can do it myself. Don't stop, now; don't fool around here, and the evasion booming along so handsome; man the sweeps, and set her loose! Boys, we done it elegant!- 'deed we did.


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