The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN - Pitbook.com
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN - Pitbook.com The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN - Pitbook.com
"Three hundred dollars is a power of money. I wish my mother could get it. Is your husband going over there tonight" "Oh, yes. He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun. They'll go over after midnight." "Couldn't they see better if they was to wait till daytime" "Yes. And couldn't the nigger see better, too After midnight he'll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all the better for the dark, if he's got one." "I didn't think of that." The woman kept looking at me pretty curious, and I didn't feel a bit comfortable. Pretty soon she says" "What did you say your name was, honey" "M, Mary Williams." Somehow it didn't seem to me that I said it was Mary before, so I didn't look up, seemed to me I said it was Sarah; so I felt sort of cornered, and was afeared maybe I was looking it, too. I wished the woman would say something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was. But now she says: "Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in" "Oh, yes'm, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary." "Oh, that's the way of it"
"Yes'm." I was feeling better then, but I wished I was out of there, anyway. I couldn't look up yet. Well, the woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor they had to live, and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place, and so forth and so on, and then I got easy again. She was right about the rats. You'd see one stick his nose out of a hole in the corner every little while. She said she had to have things handy to throw at them when she was alone, or they wouldn't give her no peace. She showed me a bar of lead twisted up into a knot, and said she was a good shot with it generly, but she'd wrenched her arm a day or two ago, and didn't know whether she could throw true now. But she watched for a chance, and directly banged away at a rat; but she missed him wide, and said "Ouch!" it hurt her arm so. Then she told me to try for the next one. I wanted to be getting away before the old man got back, but of course I didn't let on. I got the thing, and the first rat that showed his nose I let drive, and if he'd a stayed where he was he'd a been a tolerable sick rat. She said that was first-rate, and she reckoned I would hive the next one. She went and got the lump of lead and fetched it back, and brought along a hank of yarn which she wanted me to help her with. I held up my two hands and she put the hank over them, and went on talking about her and her husband's matters. But she broke off to say: "Keep your eye on the rats. You better have the lead in
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"Three hundred dollars is a power <strong>of</strong> money. I wish my<br />
mother could get it. Is your husband going over there<br />
tonight"<br />
"Oh, yes. He went up-town with the man I was telling<br />
you <strong>of</strong>, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another<br />
gun. <strong>The</strong>y'll go over after midnight."<br />
"Couldn't they see better if they was to wait till<br />
daytime"<br />
"Yes. And couldn't the nigger see better, too<br />
After midnight he'll likely be asleep, and they can slip<br />
around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all<br />
the better for the dark, if he's got one."<br />
"I didn't think <strong>of</strong> that."<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman kept looking at me pretty curious, and I<br />
didn't feel a bit <strong>com</strong>fortable. Pretty soon she says"<br />
"What did you say your name was, honey"<br />
"M, Mary Williams."<br />
Somehow it didn't seem to me that I said it was Mary<br />
before, so I didn't look up, seemed to me I said it was<br />
Sarah; so I felt sort <strong>of</strong> cornered, and was afeared maybe I<br />
was looking it, too. I wished the woman would say<br />
something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was.<br />
But now she says:<br />
"Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first<br />
<strong>com</strong>e in"<br />
"Oh, yes'm, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first<br />
name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary."<br />
"Oh, that's the way <strong>of</strong> it"