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Title:       Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The
Author:      Twain, Mark

Nothing More To Write

     The first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time
of the evasion? - what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all
right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before?  And
he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out
all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have
adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being
free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his
lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have
them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and
then he would be a hero, and so would we.  But I reckoned it was about as
well the way it was.

     We had Jim out of the chains in no time, and when Aunt Polly and Uncle
Silas and Aunt Sally found out how good he helped the doctor nurse Tom, they
made a heap of fuss over him, and fixed him up prime, and give him all he
wanted to eat, and a good time, and nothing to do.  And we had him up to the
sick-room, and had a high talk; and Tom give Jim forty dollars for being
prisoner for us so patient, and doing it up so good, and Jim was pleased most
to death, and busted out, and says:

     "Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you? - what I tell you up dah on Jackson
Islan?  I tole you I got a hairy breas', en what's de sign un it; en I tole
you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich ag'in; en it's come true; en
heah she is!  Dah, now, doan' talk to me - signs is signs, mine I tell you;
en I knowed jis' 's well 'at I 'uz gwineter be rich ag'in as I's a-stannin'
heah dis minute!"

     And then Tom he talked along and talked along, and says, le's all three
slide out of here one of these nights and get an outfit, and go for howling
adventures amongst the Injuns, over in the territory for a couple of weeks or
two; and I says, all right, that suits me, but I ain't got no money for to
buy the outfit, and I reckon I couldn't get none from home, because it's
likely pap's been back before now, and got it all away from Judge Thatcher
and drunk it up.

     "No, he hain't," Tom says; "it's all there yet - six thousand dollars
and more; and your pap hain't ever been back since.  Hadn't when I come away,
anyhow."

     Jim says, kind of solemn:

     "He ain't a-comin' back no mo', Huck."

     I says:

     "Why, Jim?"

     "Nemmine why, Huck - but he ain't comin' back no mo'."

     But I kept at him; so at last he says:

     "Doan' you 'member de house dat was float'n down de river, en dey wuz a
man in dah, kivered up, en I went in en unkivered him and didn' let you come
in?  Well, den, you kin git yo' money when you wants it, kase dat wuz him."

     Tom's most well now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard
for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing
more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd 'a' knowed
what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't 'a' tackled it, and ain't
a-going to no more.  But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead
of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and
I can't stand it.  I been there before.

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The End