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Show when 1nade that; raft. I got to it it fast tog th r. then anoth r, warn't nothing but a couple Then I se another . peck, and thi tirne I was right. of aw-log" and cha eel It wa. th \Yhen I got to it tJ itn wa"' itting th re \vith his head down betwe n hi knee., a. Je p, with his right arm hanging over th . teering oar. The other oar \vas mash d off, and the rafL wa lit t reel up with leaves and branche and dirt. Ro she's had a rough time. I n1ad fa. t and laicl down nnder Jiin 's nose on t lh' raft, and begun to gap, and str tch my fi ts out again t Jim, mHl ay : '' Ifello, Jitn, hav) I been a leep? Why didn't yon stir n1e up '! " "Gooclne. s graciou , is clat you, Huck? En you ain' dencl -you ain' clrowndecl- you' back agin? It'· too good for true, honey, it~· too good for true. I.~ mine look at y u, chile, len11ne feel o' you. No, you ain' dead! you's hack agin', lin~ n .·oun', ji de saine ole Huck-de same ole Huck, thank to l ,, goo( ne "'Vhat' ... the 1natter with you, Jim? l ... ou been a drinking ? " " Drin kin' ? I [a::; I ben a clrinkin'? lias I hacl a ·hance to be a drinkin'? " "\\r 11, ihcn, \Yhat mak ... you talk so wild?" " I[ow do I talk wild?" "IIo1u? why hain·t you been talking about my co1n1ng back, and all tbat stuff, as if I'd been gone away?" " II uck- I [ ne k Finn, you look me in de eye ; look me in u ye. !lain 't you ben gone away?" "Gone away? ~Thy, what in the nation do you 1nean? I bain't been gone anywh re . ~There would I go to?" '- \\r ell, looky her , boss, dey' sumf'n wrong, dey i . Is I JIUCJ{ J<'J_YDS TilE R.AFT. l:Jl 1ne, or who is I? Is I beah, or whah is I? X ow daL' ~ \YhaL I want::; to 1~ now ~r) .·' "\\,. 11, I think you'r h r , plain nough, but I think you'r ' a tangl -h aded olu fool, Jin1:~ "I is, j I ? \ \r ell you answ 'r me di:. J)i ln 't yon tote ul (l lin in de canoe, fer to 1nak' fas· t J e t w-heacl? ., "No, 1 didn't. \ \ hat to\v-head? I hain·t n no t w-h ad." "lrou hain·t . en no tow-h ad? L oky h )re-didn't tle line pull loo en d raf' g a lnuntnin · down d ' river, en 1 av<' yon en de canoe b hin in d fog?., " \ \'hnt fog ? " " \Vhy <le fog. ])e fog <laf.., ben aroun' all night. En didn't you whoop, en Jjcln't I whoop, t ll w g t 1nix' up in de i land · n one un u , got lo ' n father one wa j i · ~ a~ good as lo:', 'k:a c be didn~ know whah he wur.? En didn·t I but up agin a lot r dem i ,Ian ls en hav ::\ a turrible tim n tno ~ crit drowndecl? Now ain' clat . o, bo ·s-ain·t it 'O? y· ou an wer 11H' da.t.' " \ \Tell, thi.· i. too nutny for Ine, Jin1. I hainl Pen no foa, nor no island , nor no troub1 s, nor nothing. I b(• :)n s tting here talking with yon all night till you w nl to sleep about t<: n Ininut ago, and I reckon I don th sam . lr ou couldn't a got drunk in that t i n1 , so of c ur~c you ~v } h en dr ·~nn.ing :· ' J)a~l f 'tch it, how i I gwyne t dr )am a1l cl::tt 111 t n 1Hinutes ? ·~ ' \\T .}11, hang it all, you clitl dream it, b can 'e th r didn't a11y of it happ n ." "But Huck, ifs all ji~· as plain to 1ne a ., . " It don't 1nak n cliffer n ·e how plain it i.:, there :un 't nothing in it. I know, b cau e rv be n her' all thr ti1ue.' J int didn't say nothing for about five 1ninutc. , but :et th r' l uclying ov r it. Th n h says: K 2 |