? ? ? ? "Ain't it gay?" said Joe.
? ? ? ? "It's nuts!" said Tom. "What would the boys say if they could see us?"
? ? ? ? "Say? Well they'd just die to be here- hey Hucky?"
? ? ? ? "I reckon so," said Huckleberry; "anyways I'm suited. I don't want nothing better'n this. I don't ever get enough to eat, gen'ally- and here they can't come and pick at a feller and bullyrag him so."
? ? ? ? "It's just the life for me," said Tom. "You don't have to get up, mornings, and you don't have to go to school, and wash, and all that blame foolishness. You see a pirate don't have to do anything, Joe, when he's ashore, but a hermit he has to be praying considerable, and then he don't have any fun, anyway, all by himself that way."
? ? ? ? "O yes, that's so," said Joe, "but I hadn't thought much about it, you know. I'd a good deal ruther be a pirate, now that I've tried it."
? ? ? ? "You see," said Tom, "people don't go much on hermits, now-a-days, like they used to in old times, but a pirate's always respected.
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