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Show reckon 1 hain't rai:-~ed ~nth a Rca1np as Juy To1n all tlH.':-;<' year., 110 - to know hin1 vdH'n 1 ee lJiln. That 1.uoulcl bt' a pretty howcly-<ln. Cmne out frorn uudc'r i hat ht~d, 1 [nck Finn:· Ro I done it. Hut not feeling bra~h. Aunt Nal1 y she wa: one of the mixed-npl'~t looking pt'l'.'Oll · I 'Yer :ee; . xe 'pt on , and that ·was l"'"ncle f4ila:-~, wlH~n he corne in, and they to1d it all to hin1. IL kind of 1nad ' him drunk, as yon 1nay say, and he dicln 't kno·w nothing at all the re t of the dny, ancl preachcc1 a pray<'r-Jne ting : n non that night t haL giYc hi1n a rattling rupnt at ion, b cn.u thP llld st 1nan in th' world conhln'L a, undcl"ioocl it. So T(nn\; Aunt Polly, ,'he told all about ·who I W<l . , ::nul what; and l lwd to np and tell how I was in, uch a t ig ht place that ·when .1\Irs. PheJp~ took me for Tmn Rawy r- he chipped in <lnd I ays, "Oh, go on nncl cal1 1ne Aunt Sally, I'1n u:cd to it, now, and 'tain't llO need to change ''-that when Aunt Bally took rn for Tmn N:nvyer, I had tu . t and it-th rc warn 't no oi her ·wny, and I know eel he wouhh1 't Inin<l, hecau it would bP nut" for hin1 , being a 1ny:iery, and he'd make an adveniur \out of it and be perfectly :at i 'ficcl. And . o it turned out, and he lC't on to D<' Sid, and nwcle things aR oft a.' he could for 1ne. And hi:-; Aunt l)olly he . aid 'I'ou1 was right about old l\Ii -. \Vat on , etting Jin1 free in her will; and so, ."'nrc enough, Tmn Sa wycr had gon ancl took all i hat trouble ancl both r to ·et a fr c nigger fr \ ! and I couldn't. ever und r tand, b ~fon' until that 1ninute ancl that talk, ho\v h conld h ::.lp a body set a nigger frc , with l1is bringing-up. '\'ell, Aunt Polly f'he aiJ that ·when Aunt • ally wrote . to h lr that Tmn and Si(l had co1nr, all rig ht and safe, I h says to herself: ''Look at that, now! I Inio·ht hav exp ct cl it, letting him go off that way without anybody to wat ·h hiln. io now I got to go and trap ·e all the way rlown th · river, eleven hundred u IIAJ.VD 0 L "1' TIJ}j'Jf LE'Tl'.El~S. mil ·, nne! find out what, that crednr's up to, this time ; a long il. I coul<ln't, .ec1n to g<'l <tny nn:-;wcr out of yon about it." 'Why, I ll<'I'C r hl'anlno( J, i11g· from yon," , ny. Annt .'ally. " \\'"ell, I woncl r ! 'rhy, I \\-TOte to y u twice, t ask you what yon could 111 \an hy ~icl being her<'.' " \\Te JJ [ n'v r got 'c,m, Ni~." '' 1L\... lJ Ol"l' '1' 111~.\l !.t 'l''l' l~H :::,." Aunt Polly, she t Lltll · al'OLlJHl ~duw aud 'e\'el'e, and ~my~: " r· on, '1\>Jn ! ., ' \Vell- 1.uhat? ., he :ay~, kind of p .liti ·l1. ''])on 'L you whaL Jne, you illJl>udent tiling- hand ouL the: n1 !eLLen;.'' ' \rhat le tLer~ r .. F F |