Part 13 (2/2)
Toladness and astonishment to be in such a celebrated place, and he just dripped history from every pore, seemed toon the very identical spot the prince flew froht tiive the prince a bronze horse with a peg in its shoulder, and he could git on hio all over the world, and steer it by turning the peg, and fly high or low and land wherever he wanted to
When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that co a whopper and you feel sorry for hie the subject and let hiit stuck and don't see no way, and before you can pull your ot in and spread itself and done the business I was embarrassed, Jim he was embarrassed, and neither of us couldn't say a word Well, Tolowered at me a minute, and says:
”Come, out with it What do you think?”
I says:
”Tom Sawyer, YOU don't believe that, yourself”
”What's the reason I don't? What's to henderto hender you: it couldn't happen, that's all”
”What's the reason it couldn't happen?”
”You tell ood enough reason it could happen, I should reckon”
”WHY is it?”
”WHY is it? I never saw such an idiot Ain't this balloon and the bronze horse the sa under different names?”
”No, they're not One is a balloon and the other's a horse It's very different Next you'll be saying a house and a cow is the sa'in! Dey ain't no wigglin' outer dat!”
”Shut your head, Ji about And Huck don't Look here, Huck, I'll make it plain to you, so you can understand You see, it ain't thesimilar or unsimilar, it's the PRINCIPLE involved; and the principle is the same in both Don't you see, now?”
I turned it over in my mind, and says:
”Tom, it ain't no use Principles is all very well, but they don't git around that one big fact, that the thing that a balloon can do ain't no sort of proof of what a horse can do”
”Shucks, Huck, you don't get the idea at all Now look here a h the air?”
”Yes”
”Very well Don't we fly high or fly low, just as we please?”
”Yes”
”Don't we steer whichever ant to?”
”Yes”