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Show 3~0 TilE ADVENTURES OF IIUCKLEBERRl~ FL. Y. ..Y . So I wa. full of trouble,- full a ,: I could be ; and didn't know what to do. At la t I had an id a ; and I ay , rn go and \vrite the letter-and then see if I can pray. ''""hy, it \Yn: . . r • \ I • I I' \ i ~ · '\ \\ \ .• '. \.t\,J' \ \~'· .. d ~ \' \ '•.•,;.. ~ . ' . l ,, I ., .. ,.' . ' \ \' , <1. I I I t ;;· \\ \ \ .'• I' . I !..:.;;· .. / •• t .• I ' ) ' TliiNKI~G. astonishing, the way I felt a· light a a feather, rjght traight off, and my trouble' all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Miss \Vatson your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville ancll\Ir. Phelps ha got him and he will give him up for the reward if you sencl. HucK l!..,INN. I felt good and all wa hed clean of in for the first. time I had ever felt o in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn ~t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set OLD IlECOLLE( ''PlO • .YS. th rc thinking-Lhinking ho\v go (lit wa.· all thi. hnppene<l ~o, and how n ~ar 1 come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking·. Aud goL to thin king over onr trip clown the ri\~Jr; and I Jim before Jnc, all the tin1c, in th day, nnd jn th night-tinH', 01n tin1 · n1oonlight, .·o1n 'i in1C.' ~tonn~ ml(1 \V a floating alono-, talking, and singing, an<l laughing . Bnt 111 'how I eouldu ~t .·cen1 to . ·trike no pine s to hardt'n J1l<' ngain. t hi1n, but only th' other kind. I'd . hin1 :Lan<1ing 111y watch on top of hi · 'n, st <Hl of cal1i11 a 1nc, :o I conlc1 go o11 lccping; and ee hi1n h o\v gla<.l h wa~ \Yh 11 1 ·om(• hack oni of the fog; and wh n I c 1ne to hi1n clgain in th ' ,·,nunp, up there wher the f<.'lHl wns; and ~ueh-like tim ~; and \Youl(l always call me hon y a1t<l pet 1n , and do ~v 'rything h could think of for 1ne, and how good he alway~ wa. ; and at la t 1 struck the ti1ne I ay d ltiln by telling th n1rn w had rnallpox a board, and he wa ' ~o grat ful, aucl .·aid I wn the be ·{ fri ncl old Jin1 ever had in the world, and. th 01Lly on he·: got now; and then I happen cl to look around, and ·e tl1at paper. It wa~ a c]o.' place. I iook it np, ancllH'hl ii in 1ny hand. I was a t rc1nbling, b 'Cans<' I'd got to dccid<', for 'Ycr, b hvixi two thing~, and I knowcd it. I ~t udi<'c1 a 1ninnt <', sort of holdjllg 1ny hrcai h, and tl1Pn say· to 1ny:('lf: "All right, th0n, I'll r;o i o h '11 ''-and tore it up. It wa a\vfnl thouo·ht ·, and awfnl ·word~, but th y wa~ :-;aid. And I let t hrm stay :aid ; and n E v r i hough t no 111orP abont reforn1incr. I .·hov d tlH~ whole thing out of my lH'nd; and :aid I would take np wi ]{('dn ."'s again, which \vas in 1ny li11<~, being hrnng up to ii, DIH1 t h<' other warn 't. And for a ~tart r, I would go to \vork and :i raJ Jim out of sl~n·ery agaj11 ; a1Hl if I could think np anything wor~r, I would dot hat, too; h Jean:< a. long a: 1 \Ya: in, and in for good, I Jniaht a: W<'ll go t 1H' whol' l1og. y |