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Show v"]t "It was an ol<l f('llow-~ . trangcr-n11<l l1e .'Old out I1i:-:; ehnn~ in hin1 for forty dollar~, bc~nz he's g·ot to go np the ri\'cl anll ~an't waiL Think o' that, now ! l~ Hl brL Fr/, wait if it was :rv n year. .. ' ~That·· lllC', Y ry tin1c;· . n.ys I. "Htd 111~1vb<' his ain't worLh no 1nore than that, if h<''ll ~ell it Ro ·h np. 1l1 ' 1' ·s . mnethiug ain't . traigh t a bon t it." <'ll:lll<.'L ::\Iaybt' "But it is, thongh-.. traight as a string. 1 'CC' the Jwndhill 1n vst' If. It i ells all u bout hi1n, i o a dot- paint · hitn li]'<) a piet nrc', mul tell, t1H' plnnt at ion he>'. fru1n, below X cwrl eu Jl • No-:irr c-bob, th('y ain't no tronhle 'lxntt tltot sperulation, you lwL yon. ~ay, gin1n1e a rhaw toha ·kcr, won't yc r ·· I didn't have none,. o he left. I went to th raft, and ~ct do·wn in the ''"i!!W(llll to think. But l couldn't- ~o1ne to nothi11cr. u h I t honght till I w rc 111y huu1 . orr, bui I couldn't .-ee no W<ly out of th tronh1e. After n1l thi:) long journey, and after all "'<•'d <lone for th rn .-coundrcl~, hrr \ wa. it all co!nc to nothi11g, r \·t·r.rthing all bu. t 'll up and ruin <1, bccau c th y eould hn\·e t be heart to serve Ji1n . nch a trick a. that, and 1nak hi1u a .-lave again all hi life, anc1 a1nongst t rang ' 1'.', too, for forty dirty dollar.'. Once I sai<l t Jny,· lf it wonl<l b a thousand tinH'.' better for Jin1 to be a slave at hon1e where~ hi· f£nnily W<lS, a.· long as he• '<l r;ot to be a la Yc, ancl ,'O I'< 1 bl't tPr write a l tt('r to Tmn R:n,-.;·er, aucJ tell hiu1 to tell ::\li ,s 'Yat on 'rh n\ h-.. wa~. B nt I 'OOn giye up that notion, for two thing. : h •'d br rna<l an<l di~gn. te<l at hi rascality an<l nngratcfnln<':-i · for 1 aving her, ancl o hc'cl sell hi1n straight do·wn th river again; and if she didn't, cv rybocly nainrnJJy despi C'S an unoTnt ful nicrrr r <HH1 b bb ' thcy'<l1nak' Jin1 feel it all the tim , ancl 'O he'd fe:.l on1 ry anu disgra ·e:d. And then think of TJte ·' It would get all around that 1 [ nck Finn helped a ni erg )r to act hi · fre d01n · b b ' and if I "·a to ever sec anybody frorn that tO\Yn again, I'd be OLD llECOLLECTIQN, '. ready to g t do\Yll nncl lick l1i.' boots f~ r shmn ·. That':-~ ju~t the wny; a pC'rson does a low-down thing, and th n l1 don't wanL to tak no coE C<pL nc ) of it. Thinks a. long a.' h<· <'all hid(' it, it ain't no di sgrac . That wa ~ 1ny fix ('X:l ·tly. TlH' 1norc I 'LndiC'cl about t hi . the 1nor lllJ ronsc i<·n ~ ' \V ·nt to ariuclinrr 111 , ancl th Jn re wicked and 1 w-clown a1Hl ornery r b b goL to feeling. Ancl at la .·t, wh<~n it hit 1n all of a sn<l<l('U ihat her \Yas the plain ht\n<l of Provicl<'lll' .·lapping 1nc in il l< f<lcr and letting n1 kno'v Jny wickedness was b ing v..· at ch cd all ihe t i1nc fnnn up ihcrC' in heav n, whiLt I "·as .·tC'aling a poo1· old wo1nan ·~ nigg r that hadn't 'ver done' Inc no lwnn and n nw was .·howing 1ne there'· On t hat'· alway.· on the look-out, aiH1 ain't agoing t allow no .·uch mis rable doings to go only ju:t so ftil' ancl no furth r, I 1no t clropprcl in n1y track. 1 was o scar cl. "\V 11, I tri d the best I could to kintl 'r .·ofL nit up son1 how for m. · lf, b. aying I was brnng up \Vi ·k cl, an<l ~ o I warn 't ~o 1nuch to blarn ; but on1 thing in.-icl of 111) kc'pt .·nyin <r " There \Ya th Sunday-. ~bool, you ·onlcl a gon to it ~ . h' ancl if you'd ad ne it they'd a learnt you, th re, that p opl' tlwt aci sa, l'cl been acting about that nigger goc.' to \'('rla.'ling fin).' .. It 1nadc In shiYer. And I about mac:W up rny Jnind Lo prny ; ancl sec if I coulun't tr. to q nit being the kind of a boy I wa~, and h bctt r. ~ io I knc<'led down. 13ut th word. ,,·ou](ln 't come. vrhy woulcln 't t b yr It warn"t no u. \ to try and hid<· it fro1n lfin1. Nor fro1n 1ne, n ither. I knov,:ecl very \V('ll \Yhy t h y wouldn't c 1n . It wa. because 1ny h arL \varn 't rio·ht; iL wa' bccau I warn't squar ; it wa: b cau~ I wa playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away insid) of 1ne I was holding on to the bigge t. on of all. I wa: tryina to make my mouth ay I \vould do th right thing and. tl1 cl an thing, and go and write to that nigg r's own rand tell wh r lu· wa. ; but de p down in 1ne I know d it was a li -an<.l I£(' knowed it. You can't prny a lie-I found that out. |