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night, with a hundred masked cowards at his back and lynches the rascal. Your mistake is, that you didn’t bring a man with you; that’s one mistake, and the other is that you didn’t come in the dark and fetch your masks. You brought PART of a man — Buck Harkness, there — and if you hadn’t had him to start you, you’d a taken it out in blowing. ‘You didn’t want to come. The average man don’t like trouble and danger. YOU don’t like trouble and danger. But if only HALF a man — like Buck Harkness, there — shouts ‘Lynch him! lynch him!’ you’re afraid to back down — afraid you’ll be found out to be what you are — COWARDS — and so you raise a yell, and hang yourselves on to that half-a-man’s coat-tail, and come 247 of 496 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn raging up here, swearing what big things you’re going to do. The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is — a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness. Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole. If any real lynching’s going to be done it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion; and when they come they’ll bring their masks, and fetch a MAN along. Now LEAVE — and take your half-a-man with you’ — tossing his gun up across his left arm and cocking it when he says this. The crowd washed back sudden, and then broke all apart, and went tearing off every which way, and Buck Harkness he heeled it after them, looking tolerable cheap.
I could a stayed if I wanted to, but I didn’t want to. I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it, because there ain’t no telling how soon you are going to need it, away from home and amongst strangers that way. You can’t be too careful. I ain’t opposed to spending money on circuses 248 of 496 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when there ain’t no other way, but there ain’t no use in WASTING it on them. It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable — there must a been twenty of them — and every lady with a lovely complexion, and per- fectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens, and dressed in clothes that cost millions of dollars, and just littered with diamonds. It was a powerful fine sight; I never see anything so lovely. And then one by one they got up and stood, and went a-weaving around the ring so gentle and wavy and graceful, the men looking ever so tall and airy and straight, with their heads bobbing and skimming along, away up there under the tent-roof, and every lady’s rose-leafy dress flapping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol. And then faster and faster they went, all of them dancing, first one foot out in the air and then the other,
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another, without it was Aunt Polly,
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straight;’ and pretty soon she wo
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time I heard the clock away off in
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We went to a clump of bushes, and T
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‘Now,’ says Ben Rogers, ‘what
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anyhow. Say, do we kill the women,
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loaded down with di’monds, and th
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‘Well,’ says I, ‘I think they
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says, ‘Take your hands away, Huck
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for you. Now you sign it.’ So I s
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I took up a book and begun somethin
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eckoned he was gone he come back an
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fiddler, and rolled off the porch a
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stay on hand till he got that chanc
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wust. They said he could VOTE when
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I don’t know how long I was aslee
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RGIT up! What you ‘bout?’ I ope
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home. While we laid off after break
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looked out over the river. All safe
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for me; I know that island pretty w
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without any lights. There warn’t
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how they always put quicksilver in
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the Mis- souri side, under steam, a
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again so as to have them out of sig
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says: ‘Hello, Jim!’ and skipped
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well stuffed, we laid off and lazie
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warn’t afeard; bekase I knowed ol
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and his old granny said his father
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had all the traps in the cavern, we
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across — a half a mile — becaus
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the lot into the canoe — it might
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uried him so, so they say, but I di
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how nigh he come to getting lynched
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I had got so uneasy I couldn’t se
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so. Then she told me to try for the
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‘Why, a man I met at daybreak thi
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When the first streak of day began
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as a general thing, and nothing e
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felt when I see that wreck laying t
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didn’t you’d tell. But this tim
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too scared. And, besides, a body CO
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every last sign of her, and we was
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the matter with ‘em?’ ‘They
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WAS the best cretur ! — I most wi
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It did seem a powerful long time be
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We skipped out and looked; but it w
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to me ‘bout Sollermun, Huck, I kn
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five miles an hour; but you don’t
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up?’ ‘Goodness gracious, is dat
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‘But, Huck, it’s all jis’ as
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with me, and scorched me more and m
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you know.’ He jumped and got the
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‘Well, that’s infernal mean. Od
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— I’d feel just the same way I
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‘Maybe we went by Cairo in the fo
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and then the pilot sticks his head
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‘George Jackson, sir.’ ‘What
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handsome — and the sweetest old g
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on. While I was at it he asked me w
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‘I bet you can’t spell my name,
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I didn’t read the poetry. An- oth
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and every time her birthday come th
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them tributes. The neighbors said i
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daytimes, and balls at the house ni
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‘Why, where was you raised? Don
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‘I reckon he WARN’T a coward. N
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don’t cost nothing, and it’s ju
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grief; they cried around each other
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waltzed in and cussed HIMSELF awhil
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answer questions but me; so I didn
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‘Why?’ ‘What did you reckon I
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‘I’d ruther not TELL you where
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took bad?’ ‘It ain’t no name
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‘Just look at it a minute, and ma
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working for the auction than around
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had misfortunes; he’s broke his a
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‘I reckon I would, but I don’t
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I says yes; and him and some others
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anybody can tell, easy enough, HE d
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I had the road all to myself, and I
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CHAPTER XXX. WHEN they got aboard t
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That made me squirm! ‘Yes,’ say
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‘Well, I don’t care if I DID, I
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woods look solemn and dismal. So no
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eath but loaded up with joy, and su
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Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Ji
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Then I struck up the road, and when
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‘No you wont, you’ll start NOW;
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log nigger-cabins in a row t’othe
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see you! Dear, dear, it does seem l
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‘Who’d you give the baggage to?
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‘Uneasy!’ she says; ‘I’m re
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Well, I couldn’t HAVE it that way
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I says: ‘All right; but wait a mi
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Why, I do believe it’s a stranger
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‘Tom, didn’t YOU think Aunt Sal
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and shoved for the town; for I didn
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‘Why?’ ‘Because part of it wa
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Well, one thing was dead sure, and
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lean-to that joined the hut at the
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‘You going, right here in the day
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to git aroun’ it DIS time. But it
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to furnish them, and you had to con
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let it go. But there’s one thing
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troublesomest piece of old brass ca
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two or three ways, but there warn
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In the morning we went out to the w
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hund’d thous’n billion dollars,
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learn to take some sort of care of
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kind of foolish, fishes up that spo
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‘Why, Aunt Sally, there ain’t b
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y and by. But that pie was a job; w
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the window-hole. 435 of 496 The Adv
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‘Well, anyway,’ I says, ‘what
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of a grindstone nuther; but we allo
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‘PLEASE, Mars Tom — DOAN’ tal
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what’s the matter with you. Yes,
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loadened down with more gaudier cha
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‘What’s them?’ I says. ‘War
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‘Not much. I’ll stuff Jim’s c
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lock them in, and can kill them at
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‘Noth’n.’ ‘NOTH’N!’ ‘
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And everybody runs to see, and she
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Tom’s britches catched fast on a
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— man the sweeps!’ But me and J
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‘He had a dream,’ I says, ‘an
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here to hear the news, and Sid’s
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ther’s ben a DOZEN a-helpin’ th
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‘HOUSE-thieves as well as —‘
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in the morning all sound and right.
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‘Well, I must a forgot it.’ So
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ecause he ain’t a bad nigger. Whe
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took off, because they was rotten h
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and I see it warn’t no use for ME
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nostrils opening and shutting like
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I knowed he wouldn’t mind, becaus
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But I kept at him; so at last he sa
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