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Show lJG TilE .ADJ"E.STCRL'S OJ.' IlUCll.LEJJL'RRJ:~ l•'I1\'.1.Y. b eau 1 didn't run J i1n off from his rightful owner ; but it warn t no u. e, con:'ci nee up and say , every ti1ne, "But you kn wed h \vas running for his fre don1, and you couhl a p~Hldl <1 ashore an<l tohl ROinebody." That was so-l couldn't g t around that, no way. That \va Y\h r it pinched. Conscience say to 1ne, "\\That had p or l\1iss Wat. ·on clone to you, that you could ee h r nigger go off right under your eyes and never ay one ingl word ? \\That dicl that poor old woman <lo to you, that yon coulcl tr at her so mean ? \\Thy, she tried to learn you your book, sh triecl to learn you your 1nanner , she tried to be good to you e\·ery way he knowecl how. That's what she done." I got to feeling o 1nean and. so mi. erable I most wished I wa cl )ad. I ficlgcte<l up and clown the raft, abusing myself to 1ny elf, and Jin1 wa · fidgeting up and down pa 't me. \\r c lH'ither of us couhl k ep till. Every ti1ne he dane d aroun<l antl say·, " Dah's airo ! " it \vent though me like a shot, ancl l thought if it 'Was Cairo I r ckoned I would di of mi. erablenc . Ji1n talked out loud all the time \vhile I was talking to nlys 1f. He was saying how the fir t thing he would do when he got to a free State hew uld go to saving up money and never ·pend a single cent, and wh n he got nongh h would buy his wif , which was owned on a farm clos to where l\1i s \\Tatson lived ; and then th y would both work to buy the two childr n, ancl if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd g tan Ab'litioni t to ao and steal th 111. It 1no t froz 111 to hear such talk. H ·wouldn't ever <lar cl to talk such talk in his life befor . Just see what a differ nee it made in him the minute h judged he \Vas about fr . It was according to th old saying, "Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an 11." Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. li re wa. this nigger whith I had as good '' GOOD OLE CAIRO." a helped to run away, coming right out fhtt-foot('<l aud ayiug he would steal his children-children that bPl ngccllo n. n1an I licln'L even know; a man that hacln ,t v r don HlP no hann. I was . orry to h ar Jim say that, it \Ya .'nch a low ring of hiu1• ~1y con .. ci.ence got to stirring me up hott r than v r, until at last I ay to it, " Let up on n1e-it ain'L too lair., yet-I'H paddle a~hor at the first light, ~nd t c~:·" I felt easy, and happy, and light a.' a feath r, nrrhl off. Al~ rny troubl, was gone. I went to looking out ~harp for a hg~1t, and sort of singing to 1nyself. By-an<.l-by one showed. J un ing" out : . "\\r e's afe, 1 [uck, \ve's a£ ! J u1np up a ucl crack yo heels dat's de good ole Cairo at l as', I J. I. k nows l.L 4 I. ., I say : "I'll take the cano and go see, Jim. It 1nightnl b , you know.'~ l[c jumped and got the canoe ready, and put hi · old coaL in th bottom for me to et n, and gi v \ 1ne Lhc pac.l<llc ; and as I sho\'ed off, he says : "P oty soon I'll be a- hout'n fo-r joy, en I'll · ay, it:s all on account o' Huck ; I's a fre n1an, en I ·oulc.ln't ev 'r ben free ~f it hadn' ben for l[uck ;.l[uck done jt. Ji1n won,t ev'r ~ rglL you,l[uck; yon's u,, e b ' ' f l · 11 J'l iD·S v r· ha<- d '· en you s tl ~ only fren' ole Jim', got now." . . I was paddling off, all in a , w at to t 11 on hun ; but w h n he ays thi ... , it seem d to kind of take the tuck all out of In.e. I went a 1o ng sl ow tll n , a< ncl I warn't rjgh• t d wT n certa. ,u 1 wh th '\r I wa glad I starLe lor whether I warn t,. 'A hen I \\<.1 fifty yards off, Jim says : . "Dah you goe", de ole true l[uck; d • on'y wlnte genlman dat ev r kep' his pro1nise to ol Jim:· . . \\T 11 I just £ lt sick. But I ay .. , I ,r;ot to do It-I can L get out ~f it. Right then, along com s a skiff with two men |
