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Show soo TilE AIJrE1.V1'URES OF IIUCiiLEBERRl~ Fl.. Y. . .\. : n ver said a wonl about , upper, nor ever ser1necl to think about it - and o they kept it up, ancl kept it, up; and it 'Was the wor.t 1nix cl-np t hiug you ever .. ee. Th y 1nade the king tc'll hi · yarn, a1Hl they nutdc the old grntle1nan t ell his·n; and anybody but a lot of prejudiced chuckl heads would a seen that th ohl genU 111an wa pinning truth and t'other one lie.'. And by-and-by t lH'.V had 1ne up to t ll what I knowed. The king he gi\·e 1n a 1 ft-hand d look out of the corner of hi cy<', and so I ln1owpd enough to talk on the right .:ide. I begun to t ell a bout 1t ffi<'ld, and how we liYed there, and all about the English \\Til k sc~ an<l. o on; but I didn't g t pretty fur till tb doctor bPgun to laugh; and Levi Bell, the l::nvyrr, , ay. : '• ~et tlown 1ny boy, I wouldn't train 1nyself, if I wa~ you. I reckon you ain't u 'eel to lying, it don·t se 1n to co1ne 1wndy ; what you want i~ practice. You d iL pretty awkward." I clidn"t care not J1ing for the coinpliinent, but I was gla<l to be let off, anyway. The cloctor he . tartecl io say som thing, and turn~ ~ln<l '"Y , . • Ll • 'If you\l b en in town at fir. 't, J.Jevi B '11 '' 'T' h''er lk ing• b roke in and reach d out his hand, and .' <lY~: 1y, 1s iJu •s 1ny poor dead broth er'· old friend that l1e': wrot ._ o often a bout ? " The lawyer and lti1n :hook hand .. , an<l Lhr lawyer .'rnil,d and looketl ... ph\a: \d, ancl they talked right :dong a while a11d then got to one sid \ and talked low ; ancl at la t the l<:wyer . peaks up nnd S<ly. · : "That'll fix it. I'll take ihe order nntl send it al ng with your brother' , an<l then they'll know it' · all right."' So they got .·on1e paper and a pen, and the king he et down and twi ·te<l l n· , I1 ea d t o one · 1 RIC , and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off so1nething; and then they give the pen to th duke-and then for ihe fir t. time, the duke looked sick. But A QUESTION 01•' IIAf{D H "lliTinTO. 301 he took the pen and wrot . ~ o then the lawyer turns to the new old o·entl man and say~ : "y0~ and your br th<.\r plea e \Yrite a line r t\\ o and sign your namPs. " . . ~ Tho old gentl 1nan wrot e, but nobody couhln t r "ad 1t. 'I he lawy r looked powerful astoni ·h ed, and snys : "'V ell, it beats 1ne "-and snaked a lot of ohl l tter · out of his pocket, ancl examin cl them, and t hen exa1nin cl the old man's writing, and then the1n again ; and th n . r~y~ : " ... Thes / - THE DUKE WROTE. old letters is from l-Iarvey Wilk ; and here~~ the. e two's handwritings, and anybody can s e they didn,t write the1n" (the king and the duke looked sold and foolish, I, tel~ you, to see how the lawyer had took them in), "and heres th~s old gentleman's handwriting, and anybody can t ell, easy enou?'l~, he didn't write them-fact is, the scratches he make a1n t properly writing at all. Now here' some letters f rom " The new old gentle1nan says : "If you please, let me explain. Nobody can read my hand |