? ? ? ? And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free! and I couldn't ever understand, before, until that minute and that talk, how he could help a body set a nigger free, with his bringing-up.
? ? ? ? Well, Aunt Polly she said that when Aunt Sally wrote to her that Tom and Sid had come, all right and safe, she says to herself:
? ? ? ? "Look at that, now! I might have expected it, letting him go off that way without anybody to watch him. So now I got to go and trapse all the way down the river, eleven hundred mile, and find out what that creetur's up to, this time; as long as I couldn't seem to get any answer out of you about it."
? ? ? ? "Why, I never heard nothing from you," says Aunt Sally.
? ? ? ? "Well, I wonder! Why, I wrote to you twice, to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here."
? ? ? ? "Well, I never got 'em, Sis.
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