The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn·

. I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a minute I see I was mistaken -- that is, after the first jolt, as you may say, wh

o color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl -- a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white. As for his clothes -- just rags, that wa

ed back a little. I set the candle down. I noticed the window was up; so he

ou think you're a good deal

maybe I ain

re I get done with you. You're educated, too, they say -- can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, be

ow. She

dow she could put in her shovel about a

never to

to be better'n what HE is. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear? Your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died. No

the wars. When I'd read about a half a minute, he fetched the bo

tting on frills. I won't have it. I'll lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about tha

nd yaller picture of some

's th

give me for learnin

it up, a

hing better -- I'll

g and a-growling a min

- and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard. I never see such a son. I bet I'll take some o' these fri

e -- tha

o sass. I've been in town two days, and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. I heard ab

t got no

hatcher's got it. Yo

ll you. You ask Judge Thatch

ungle, too, or I'll know the reason why. Say,

y a dollar, and I

nce what you want it for

ad got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone

ullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but

w judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they cou

er, and pap took it and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then t

s till the old man cried, and said he'd been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn't be ashamed of, and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him. The judge said he could hug him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she

; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man that's started in on a new life, and'll die before he'll go

room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he craw

koned a body could reform the old man with a s