Part 2 (1/2)
”Yes, of course I do”
”What's the color got to do with it?”
”It's got everything to do with it Illinois is green, Indiana is pink
You show reen”
”Indiana PINK? Why, what a lie!”
”It ain't no lie; I've seen it on the ravated and disgusted He says:
”Well, if I was such a numbskull as you, Huck Finn, I would jump over
Seen it on the map! Huck Finn, did you reckon the States was the same color out-of-doors as they are on the map?”
”Tom Sawyer, what's a map for? Ain't it to learn you facts?”
”Of course”
”Well, then, how's it going to do that if it tells lies? That's what I want to know”
”Shucks, you ins! It don't tell lies”
”It don't, don't it?”
”No, it don't”
”All right, then; if it don't, there ain't no two States the sait around THAT if you can, Tom Sawyer”
He see I had hiood, for Toit ahead of Ji and says:
”I tell YOU! dat's sot you DIS tiain, and says, ”My LAN', but it was sood in, perfectly careless, and not expecting anything was going to happen, and never THINKING of such a thing at all, when, all of a sudden, out it came
Why, it was just as much a surprise to me as it was to any of the along on a hunk of corn-pone, and not thinking about anything, and all of a sudden bites into a di'mond Now all that HE knows first off is that it's soravel he's bit into; but he don't find out it's a di'its it out and brushes off the sand and cru or another, and has a look at it, and then he's surprised and glad--yes, and proud too; though when you coht in the eye, he ain't entitled to as much credit as he would 'a' been if he'd been HUNTING di'monds You can see the difference easy if you think it over You see, an accident, that way, ain't fairly as big a thing as a thing that's done a-purpose Anybody could find that di'ot to be soot THAT KIND OF A CORN-PONE That's where that feller's credit comes in, you see; and that's where s--I don't reckon I could 'a' done it again--but I done it that time; that's all I clai, and warn't anyto, than you be this minute Why, I was just as ca'm, a body couldn't be any ca'ht of that ti looked, same as if it was only last week I can see it all: beautiful rolling country oods and fields and lakes for hundreds and hundreds of es scattered everywheres under us, here and there and yonder; and the professorover a chart on his little table, and To up to dry And one thing in particular was a bird right alongside, not ten foot off, going our way and trying to keep up, but losing ground all the ti down there, sliding a cloud of black smoke and now and then a little puff of white; and when the white was gone so long you had alot it, you would hear a little faint toot, and that was the whistle
And we left the bird and the train both behind, 'WAY behind, and done it easy, too
But Tonorant blatherskites, and then he says:
”Suppose there's a brown calf and a big brown dog, and an artist isthat that artist has got to do? He has got to paint them so you can tell them apart the minute you look at theo and paint BOTH of them brown? Certainly you don't He paints one of them blue, and then you can't make no mistake It's just the same with the maps That's why they make every State a different color; it ain't to deceive you, it's to keep you froument about that, and neither could Jim Jim shook his head, and says:
”Why, Mars Tom, if you knohat chuckle-heads de time before you'd fetch one er DEM in to back up a fac'
I's gwine to tell you, den you kin see for you'self I see one of 'em a-paintin' away, one day, down in ole Hank Wilson's back lot, en I went down to see, en he was paintin' dat old brindle coid de near horn gone--you knows de one I means En I ast hiit her painted, de picture's wuth a hundred dollars
Mars Toot de cow fer fifteen, en I tole him so Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes' shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin' Bless you, Mars Tom, DEY don't know nothin'”