Part 3 (1/2)
”He does discriminate, you see, when he wants to; but this case HERE ain't no discrimination of his, it's ht; but he didn't invent the hours, and he didn't distribute them around Man did that”
”Mars Tom, is dat so? Man done it?”
”Certainly”
”Who tole him he could?”
”nobody He never asked”
Jim studied a minute, and says:
”Well, dat do beat me I wouldn't 'a' tuck no sich resk But soht ahead; DEY don't care what happens So den dey's allays an hour's diff'unce everywhah, Mars Tom?”
”An hour? No! It's four itude, you know Fifteen of 'em's an hour, thirty of 'e in England, it's eight o'clock the night before in New York”
Ji the locker, and you could see he was insulted He kept shaking his head andto hiot his, and then he says:
”Mars Tom talkin' sich talk as dat! Choosday in one place en Monday in t'other, bofe in the same day! Huck, dis ain't no place to joke--up here e is Two days in one day! How you gwine to get two days inter one day? Can't git two hours inter one hour, kin you? Can't git two niggers inter one nigger skin, kin you? Can't git two gallons of whisky inter a one-gallon jug, kin you? No, sir, 'twould strain de jug Yes, en even den you couldn't, I don't believe Why, looky here, Huck, s'posen de Choosday was New Year's--now den! is you gwine to tell me it's dis year in one place en las' year in t'other, bofe in de identical sae! I can't stan' it--I can't stan' to hear tell 'bout it” Then he begun to shi+ver and turn gray, and Tom says:
”NOW what's the matter? What's the trouble?”
Jim could hardly speak, but he says:
”Mars Tom, you ain't jokin', en it's SO?”
”No, I'ain, and says:
”Den dat Monday could be de las' day, en dey wouldn't be no las' day in England, en de dead wouldn't be called We it him to turn back; I wants to be whah--”
All of a sudden we see soun to gaze Tom says:
”Ain't that the--” He catched his breath, then says: ”It IS, sure as you live! It's the ocean!”
That made me and Jim catch our breath, too Then we all stood petrified but happy, for none of us had ever seen an ocean, or ever expected to
To:
”Atlantic Ocean--Atlantic Land, don't it sound great! And that's IT--and WE are looking at it--we! Why, it's just too splendid to believe!”