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Show 132 TilE ADT".b'lt'TURES OF IIUCKLEBERR1~ FINN. "vVell, den, I reck'n I did dream it, Huck ; but dog Iny cat. ef it ain't de powerfullest dream I ever see. En I hain't ver had no dream b fo' dat's tired me like dis one." " Oh, well, that' all right, because a dream does tire a body like everything, sometimes. But this one was a staving dream -t 11 me all about it, Jim.~' .._ 1o Jim w nt to work and told 1ne the whole thing rio·ht through, ju. t a.· it happened, only he paint d it up con icl rable. Then h said h must start in and "'terpret ., it, becan c it wa sent for a wa.rning. lie aid the first tow-h ad stood for a 1nan that would try to uo u: orne good, but the curront was nnoiher man that ·would get us away fro1n him. The whoop.· wa: warning. thaL wonlcl cmnc to us every no\v and Lhcn, and if we didn't try hanl to 1nake out to understand the1n thcy\l jn 't take us into had 1nck, ~tead of l'"ceping u out of it. The lot of tow-h <HL wa trouble. we was going to get into with quC~rrcl om pe pl and all kinds of mean folk ... , but if we n1ind d our bn inc s and didn't talk back and aggravat thc'Jn, w would pull through and g 'tout of the fog and into the bjO" cl ar river, which was th free State , and wouldn't hav n~ 1nore troubl . It had c1ond d up pr tty dark just after I aot on to Lhe raft, but it wa clearing up again, now. 5 " Oh, well, that's all interpreted w ll enough as far a · it goes, J1. m, ' I ays ; ~'but what does these things s't and for? ~, It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft, and the smashed oar. You could see them first rate, now. Jim looked at the trash, and then looked at me, and back a: the tra h again. He had got the dream fixed so trong in lns head tl:at h.e couldn't seem to shake it loose and g t th facts back Into Its place again, right away. But when he dirl get the thing straightened around, he looked at me steady without ever smiling, and ays: ' TR./lSII. ] •)•) •.)•) ' \\rhat do l y stan' for? I',' g"vync to tell y u. \Vh n I got all wore out wid work, en wi(l d callin for you, en \V ut. to le 'p, n1y heart \vuz 1no ' br kc b ka · you wuz lo , )n I didn' k'y r no mo "'-bat beco1n r rue n l raJ'. l~n wh ·n I wak up en fine you back agin', all sa£ 'll -.oun', de tear ' conH' en I could a got Jown on my kn' s en ki yo' fooL r: o thankful. l~n all you wuz thin kin 'bout wuz how y u coul< l 1nake a fool uv ole Jirn wid a lie. Dat trucl da.h i .' tra h; en ira ·h i. what people is lat put~ dirt on cle h ad er tl "Y fren's n mak . em ashamed.' Then he got up slow, and walk J to the \vigwam, ancl w nL in thcr , without saying anything but that. But that wa~ enough. It 1nade m £ el mean I coull ahno t ki ·sed hi8 foot to g t him to take it back. It wa fift en 1ninut b fore I could \vorl n1y lf up to go and. humble my elf to a nigger-but I done it, ancl I warn ·t 'Ver orry for it afterward., n ith r. I didn't do him no m re mean tricks and I woulcln t done that on if I'd a know c1 it would make ' him feel that way. |