? ? ? ? "You've ben mighty good to me, boys- better'n anybody else in this town. And I don't forget it, I don't. Often I says to myself, says I, 'I used to mend all the boys' kites and things, and show 'em where the good fishin' places was, and befriend 'em what I could, and now they've all forgot old Muff when he's in trouble; but Tom don't, and Huck don't- they don't forget him,' says I, 'and I don't forget them.' Well, boys, I done an awful thing- drunk and crazy at the time- that's the only way I account for it- and now I got to swing for it, and it's right. Right, and best, too I reckon- hope so, anyway. Well, we won't talk about that. I don't want to make you feel bad; you've befriended me. But what I want to say, is, don't you ever get drunk- then you won't ever get here. Stand a little furder west- so- that's it; it's a prime comfort to see faces that's friendly when a body's in such a muck of trouble, and there don't none come here but yourn. Good friendly faces- good friendly faces. Git up on one another's backs and let me touch 'em.
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