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Show 140 TilE ADVENTURES OF IIUC'J{LEBERRJ:? FINN. )_.. o u float along lown about twenty mil s and you'll comr to a 1 own on the left-hand .. ide of the river. It will be long after Hun-up, then, and wh \n you ask for help, you tell th u1 your folk are all down with chills and fever. J)on't be a fool ngain, and 1 t p ople gue. · what j the matt r. No\v \ve're tryi11g to <.lo yon a kindne ; so you jn t put twenty miles betvv~cen u , 1lwt's a good boy. It \Youldn 't do any good to land yonder where the light i::;-it's only a ':rood-yard. Say-I reckon your fath r's poor, and I'1n bound to say he's in pretty hard lnek. l[ re-I'll put a twenty lollar gold pi ce on this bonrcl, and you get it ·wh n it floats by. I feel 111ighty mean to l<'av you, but 1ny kingdom! ii \von t do to fool \vith sn1all-pox, don 'i you c ? ' "Ilold on, Parker,' says the other man, "here's a t\~enty to put on the boanl for 1ne. Good-bye, boy, you do a.· :\Ir. Park r told you, and you'll be all right." ' Thaf · o, 1ny boy-good-bye, good-by . If you see any runa\Yay nigg r , you get help an l nab t he1n, and you can 1nake so1n money by it." "Good-by , . ir,' says I, "I won't let no runaway niggcrs g t by me if I can help it." They went off and I got aboard the raft, feeling bacl and low·, becaus I knowed v ry w ll I had clone wrong, and I . ee it warn 't no use for me to try to learn to do right ; a body that don't g t sta?~ted right when he's little, ain t got no show-when th pinch comes there ain t nothing to back him up and k p him to hi. work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minutP, and snys to myself, hold on,-s'pose you'd a done right and giv Jim up; would you~ lt better than what you do now? No, says I, I'd f l bad-rd ~ l just the same way I do now. "rel l, then, Hay I, what's the u e you learning to do right, when it·: trouble orne to do right and ain't no tr uble to do wrong, and th ~ wages is just the same? I wa, tuck. I couldn t answ r FLOATING C'URRE~.,.CY. ] .J I that. So I reckon d I \voulc1n·t both r no 1nore about it, bn aft r this always do ·whi ·h v0r come handi tat th time. I went into the \vigwam; Ji1n warn t th re. I looked all around ; he warn't any\vh re. I ays: " Jl' iD.' " '' 111~RE I I., 1f C"CK." " Ilere I is, Huck. I s dey out o' sight yit? Don't talk loud." · h · tb" s lie was in the river' under the stern oar' Wl J u lS n out. I told him they was out of sight, so he com aboard. He says : . t d · r n I 1. c nv " I was a-listenin' to all de talk, n lp 1n ° was gwyne to shove for sh ' if d y come aboard. Den I was |