Chapter 40

We was feeling pretty good, after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a fishing, with a lunch, and had a good time, and took a look at the raft and found her all right, and got home late to supper,...

Chapter 32

When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny—the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody’s...

Chapter 30

When they got aboard, the king went for me, and shook me by the collar, and says: ‘Tryin’ to give us the slip, was ye, you pup! Tired of our company—hey?’ I says: ‘No, your majesty, we warn’t—please don’t, your majesty!’ ‘Quick, then, and...

Chapter 28

By-and-by it was getting-up time; so I come down the ladder and started for down stairs, but as I come to the girls’ room, the door was open, and I see Mary Jane setting by her old hair trunk, which was open and she’d...

Chapter 25

The news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run, from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd,...

Chapter 21

It was after sun-up, now, but we went right on, and didn’t tie up. The king and the duke turned out, by-and-by, looking pretty rusty; but after they’d jumped overboard and took a swim, it chippered them up a good deal. After breakfast the...

Chapter 12

We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the...

Chapter 11

‘Come in,’ says the woman, and I did. She says: ‘Take a cheer.’ I done it. She looked me all over with her little shiny eyes, and says: ‘What might your name be?’ ‘Sarah Williams.’ ‘Where ’bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?’ ‘No’m....

Chapter 7

‘Git up! what you ’bout!’ I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. Pap was standing over me, looking sour—and sick, too. He says— ‘What you doin’ with...

Chapter 4

Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter, now. I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times...