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Show 3UO a pTelt/f lH>w<ly-do, Ico?.dcln't it! I n ver hearcl of :such a thing.'' ~\\~ell, .. 1 ~ay~ ~.if it ·s in the regulat.i )ll~ an<l h e's got to hav it all rion ·ht let hi1n hav0 it ; b cause I don't wi.·h to bcro hack on no regnlni ions; but ih 're 's one thing, Ton1 Rawyer-if we go to t<'ari11g np onr shrcts to 1nake Jin1 a rop e-huldcr, 'Y 're going to get into trouble with Au11i 8ally, just a · ~1lr<' a~ yon're born. ~\rw, 1 he way I look at it, a hickry-bark lad<kr don't cot 11othing <nHl don't wn st 'noLhing, and i:s ju.'L a · goo<l to loacl up a pi<' with, and hi<l in a . traw tick, a any r~tg laclclcr you ea11 .·tart; an<l a.· for Jin1, he ain't ha 1 no expericue<', an(l o !te <lou·t <'<ll'e "·hat kind of a ·· 'Oh shueks, l[uck Finn, if l was a.· ignorant. as you, I'd keep Lill-tlwi's '"·haL I'd do. \V"ho ever h canl of a sial<' pri ·on r 'scnpi11g by a hickry-bark ladder? \Y'"hy, it's per fed ly ridiculous ... ' \\T<'ll. a 1l rig hi, Totn, fix i L your own \Yay ; bnt i [ you'll tak 1ny aclYicc, yon'll lt·t 1ne borrow a .·heet off of tlt (' clothe·line." l[e ~ai<l thai \Youl<l do. And that g i \.(, hin1 another idea, a1Hl he ~ays: "Borrow a shirt, ioo.'' ''\\"hat <lo W<' want of a shirt, Tmn ? ·• "'\'"ant iL f()r Ji1n to keep a j ournal on." ' Journal your granny-Jirr~ can't write.·· ' ~·po:e h cctJt 'l write-h e can lllake 1narks on the s1tiri, can't be, if ·w 1nake hirn a pen out of an old pewter spoon or a piece of au ol<l iron barrel-hoop?" "\rhy, '1\nu, \YC enn pull a feather out of a goo ·c a1Hl nmke hin1 a bcti <'r one ; HlH 1 quicker, too." "l)l'i .. oneJ·s don't have gee. c runnino- around the donj nke p to vnll pens out of, you 1nuggins. They al1.uay 1nake their p n. out of th hanle~t, tough st, trouble ·on1c -t pi 'ce of JJ.ARJ( SCIIEJIE~ '. :JGl old bra · candle tick or . omcthin a- lik that i hey can cr t thPi r hand on ; and it take tlH'm \V 'k: and w 'ek. .. , ancl n1onth · and 1nonth.· to fil it on t , too, because ih y\· ' got to do it by rubbing it on tho \v-all. 'J'hey \Youldn 't usc a goo· -quill if th c y had it. It ain't regular." "\\'"ell, then, \vhat'll \Y 1nake hin1 thP ink out of? ., " l\1any 1nakes it ou t of iron-rust and t c ar~ ; but LltaL \.; ilH · co1n1non :orLand w·o1n n; ih' b, -t authoritie· u·cs th ir owu blood. Ji1n can do t hat ; an<l wh n he \Yan t:-; to sc1Hl any liLUc· conunon ordinary my. ieriou. nH•ssagc to lei the \vorhl kno\\. where,,' he' · captivated, he cnn writ it on the hotio1n of at in plate \vjth a fork and throvv it ont of the \Yindow. The Iron l\Iask always clone t hat, an<l it' "' a bl:-une' good way, ton.'' "JjJu ain·t got no tin plat s. Th y fe 'd hitn in a pan. "That ain't anything; " . can g<'t hjul so1nc.' "Can't nobody 1 ·ec~cl hi plate ·? ' "That ain't got nothing io do \Yith it, 1 [ nck Finn. All lu-',...; got to do i. · to \Vritc on th' plnte and t hro\v iL ont. 1~ ou llou't have to be abl to read it. 'Vhy, half the Lim' you can't r<~itcl anything a prisoner writ s on a tin plate•, or any-wh 'rc cls<'." "WP 11, then, ·what'. t h e sen c in wasting the 1 >lat 'S ~ ., ""\\Thy, blaJD it all, it a,jn't th -. TJ?'l Onf/''8 plates.'' "Bui iL'.· sorr'iebody's plates, ain't it?., "\\'" 11, spos,n it i. ? \Vhat d ., th 1JJ'i ·one,· care \rho ., II brok off th re, be au \Ve h ard th ~ breakfa.'t-horn blowing. f-;o w cl ar cl out for the hous . Alona during that m ornino- I bornnvcd a hrct and a whil<' b b shirt off of the cloth ·-line ; and I found an old saek anclpnt th 111 in it, and ·we went down and got the fox-1-ire, and put that in too. I call cl it borrowing, becau ·e that was what pap alwayH called it; but To1n ·aid it ·warn 't borrowing, it \Ytt ~ .tealing. l[(:l aid 've \vas repr senting pri ·on r · ; and pri oner. · |