Part 5 (2/2)
”Blamed if I would, Jim”
”Well, I b'lieve you, Huck I?_I run off_”
”Jim!”
”But mind, you said you wouldn' tell?you know you said you wouldn' tell, Huck”
”Well, I did I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it Honest _injun_, I will People would callto tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways So, now, le's know all about it”
”Well, you see, it 'uz dis way Ole missus?dat's Miss Watson?she pecks on h, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell er trader roun' de place considable lately, en I begin to git oneasy Well, one night I creeps to de do' pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I hear old wyne to sell it eight hund'd dollars forstack o' it her to say she wouldn' do it, but I never waited to hear de res' I lit out hty quick, I tell you
”I tuck out en shi+n down de hill, en 'spec to steal a skift 'long de sho' so yit, so I hid in de ole tuo 'way Well, I wuz dah all night Dey wuz so 'bout six in de ht er nine every skift dat went 'long wuz talkin' 'bout how yo' pap come over to de town en say you's killed Dese las' skifts wuz full o' ladies en genloin' over for to see de place Sometimes dey'd pull up at de sho' en take a res' b'fo' dey started acrost, so by de talk I got to know all 'bout de killin' I 'uz powerful sorry you's killed, Huck, but I ain't no mo' now
”I laid dah under de shavin's all day I 'uz hungry, but I warn't afeard; bekase I knowed ole ht arter breakfas' en be gone all day, en dey knows I goes off wid de cattle 'bout daylight, so dey wouldn' 'spec to see me roun' de place, en so dey wouldn' miss me tell arter dark in de evenin'
De yuther servants wouldn' miss me, kase dey'd shi+n out en take holiday soon as de ole folks 'uz out'n de way
”Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went 'bout two mile er more to whah dey warn't no houses I'd wyne to do You see, ef I kep' on tryin' to git away afoot, de dogs 'ud track me; ef I stole a skift to cross over, dey'd miss dat skift, you see, en dey'd know 'bout whah I'd lan' on de yuther side, en whah to pick up my track So I says, a raff is what I's arter; it doan'
_ht a-comin' roun' de p'int by ahead o' st de drift-wood, en kep' in de current tell de raff co Den I swum to de stern uv it en tuck a-holt It clouded up en 'uz pooty dark for a little while So I clumb up en laid down on de planks De men 'uz all 'way yonder in de middle, whah de lantern wuz De river wuz a-risin', en dey wuz a good current; so I reck'n'd 'at by fo' in de mawnin' I'd be twenty-five ht en swim asho', en take to de woods on de Illinois side
”But I didn' have no luck When we 'uz in to come aft wid de lantern, I see it warn't no use fer to wait, so I slid overboard en struck out fer de islan' Well, I had a notion I could lan' mos' anywhers, but I couldn't?bank too bluff
I 'uz ood place I went into de woods en jedged I wouldn' fool wid raffs noas dey , en soht”
”And so you ain't had no et it 'wyne to hit uht?
En I warn't gwyne to show mysef on de bank in de daytime”
”Well, that's so You've had to keep in the woods all the ti the cannon?”
”Oh, yes I knowed dey was arter you I see u birds co Ji to rain He said it was a sign when young chickens flew that way, and so he reckoned it was the sa to catch some of them, but Jim wouldn't let hty sick once, and soranny said his father would die, and he did
And Ji to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck The same if you shook the table-cloth after sundown And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees , or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die
Ji idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried the s before, but not all of thens He said he knowed ns was about bad luck, and so I asked hihty few?an' _dey_ ain't no use to a body What you want to knohen good luck's a-coot hairy arwyne to be rich Well, dey's son like dat, 'kase it's so fur ahead You see, it discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich byot hairy arms and a hairy breast, Jim?”