Part 1 (1/2)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete

by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

CHAPTER I

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter That book was made by Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, s which he stretched, butI never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the , or maybe Mary Aunt Polly?Tolas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it old It was an awful sight of e Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round?las she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilizein the house all the tiular and decent the as in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out I got into ain, and was free and satisfied But To to start a band of robbers, and I o back to theand be respectable So I went back

Theshe cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never ain, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all craain Therung a bell for supper, and you had to coht to eating, but you had to wait for theto tuck down her head and gruh there warn't really anything thewas cooked by itself In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get o better

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked theto let me But she wouldn't She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any et down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with ood in it And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself

Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable sliles on, had just co-book She workedhard for about an hour, and then theer Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety Miss Watson would say, ”Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;” and ”Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry?set up straight;” and pretty soon she would say, ”Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry?why don't you try to behave?” Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there She got o soe, I warn't particular

She said it icked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place

Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it But I never said so, because it would only ot a start, and she went on and told ood place She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever So I didn't think much of it But I never said so I asked her if she reckoned Too there, and she said not by a considerable sight I was glad about that, because I wanted hi at ot tiresoers in and had prayers, and then everybody was off to bed I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table Then I set down in a chair by theand tried to think of so cheerful, but it warn't no use I felt so loneso, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever soabout so about so to whisper so to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shi+vers run over me Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghostthat's on its mind and can't rave, and has to go about that way every night grieving I got so down-hearted and scared I did wish I had so up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up I didn't need anybody to tell n and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and ot up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away But I hadn't no confidence You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider

I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke; for the house was all as still as death now, and so the ouldn't know Well, after a long tio booain?stiller than ever Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark a I set still and listened Directly I could just barely hear a ”ood!

Says I, ”me-yow! ht and scrambled out of theon to the shed Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in a fora path aarden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads When as passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise We scrouched down and laid still Miss Watson's big nigger, na in the kitchen door; we could see hiot up and stretched his neck out about aThen he says:

”Who dah?”

He listened soht between us; we could a touched him, nearly Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together There was a place on , but I dasn't scratch it; and then ht between my shoulders Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch

Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy?if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places Pretty soon Ji wyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin”

So he set down on the ground betwixt ainst a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of theun to itch It itched till the tears coun to itch on the inside

Next I got to itching underneath I didn't knoas going to set still This miserableness went on as er than that I was itching in eleven different places now I reckoned I couldn't stand it ot ready to try Just then Jiun to snore?and then I was pretty soon con toaway on our hands and knees When as ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jiht wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in Then Toh, and he would slip in the kitchen and get soht wake up and coot three candles, and Toot out, and I was in a sweat to get away; but nothing would do Tom but he must crawl to where Ji on hi was so still and loneso the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house To it on a liht over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn't wake

Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode hiain, and hung his hat on a limb to shoho done it And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils Jiot so he wouldn't hardly notice the other niggers niggers would come miles to hear Jier in that country Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look hiers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but whenever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, Jim would happen in and say, ”Her was corked up and had to take a back seat Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charive to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying so to it; but he never told what it was he said to it