? ? ? ? "Richard? What's his other name?"
? ? ? ? "He didn't have any other name. Kings don't have any but a given name."
? ? ? ? "No?"
? ? ? ? "But they don't."
? ? ? ? "Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don't want to be a king and have only just a given name, like a nigger. But say- where you going to dig first?"
? ? ? ? "Well, I don't know. S'pose we tackle that old dead-limb tree on the hill t'other side of Still-House branch?"
? ? ? ? So they got a crippled pick and a shovel, and set out on their three-mile tramp. They arrived hot and panting, and threw themselves down in the shade of a neighboring elm to rest and have a smoke.
? ? ? ? "I like this," said Tom.
? ? ? ? "So do I."
? ? ? ? "Say, Huck, if we find a treasure here, what you going to do with your share?"
? ? ? ? "Well I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along.
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