to go there, for a change of scenery. Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry—why don't you try to behave?" I was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me. I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off. I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! The widow put in a good word for me, but that warn't going to keep off the bad luck, I knowed that well enough. stealing cattle and such things ain't robbery; it's burglary," says Tom Sawyer. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. It warn't any good to me without hooks. "I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it. Themes and Colors Key LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Literature Network » Mark Twain » Huckleberry Finn » Chapter 1. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom—boom—boom—twelve licks; and all still again—stiller than ever. She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence. "I says, "Don't you ask me no questions about it, please. Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. Huck and the household slaves, Huck goes to bed feeling “so lonesome So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes. We scrouched down and laid still. "What! Chapter 1. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. I waited, and it seemed a good while, everything was so still and lonesome. ""Here's Huck Finn, he hain't got no family; what you going to do 'bout him? I was at Judge Thatcher's as quick as I could get there. This was too many for me, but she told me what she meant—I must help other people, and do everything I could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about myself. when I couldn’t stand it no longer Well, I knowed a potato would do that before, but I had forgot it.He looked surprised. He said we must slick up our swords and guns, and get ready. I said, why couldn't we see them, then? Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood, and so can’t rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. We went about two hundred yards, and then the cave opened up. "Now," says Ben Rogers, "what's the line of business of this Gang? "As a free learning portal we rely on your support and are so grateful for any donation that helps us to continue to develop our project. So I went back. Huck does in fact learn to read.One night, after Miss Watson leads a prayer session with "Because it ain't in the books so—that's why. "CHAPTER 4: Huck and the Judge.—Superstition. I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow's Providence, but if Miss Watson's got him there warn't no help for him any more. responds with another “me-yow.” Climbing out the window onto the ""Why, blame it all, we've GOT to do it. ""How you talk, Ben Rogers. "I went down to the front garden and clumb over the stile where you go through the high board fence. It had all the marks of a Sunday-school. He said sometimes it wouldn't talk without money. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. I lit out. I couldn’t stood it much longer. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. It fell pretty solid, and only rolled about an inch. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome. Everybody said:"How you talk, Huck Finn. This is the complete Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn audio collection of the four original stories written by Mark Twain. asks, Miss Watson tells him that there is no chance that Tom Sawyer So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies. "There; you see it says 'for a consideration.' Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.Ronald Reagan: Address on the Challenger DisasterEverybody was willing. What Does it Mean to be “Free”? Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it. Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. No, sir, we'll just go on and ransom them in the regular way. Well, nobody could think of anything to do—everybody was stumped, and set still. Try Prime All Go Search EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. But it warn't so. But she wouldn't. This proclamation causes an uproar. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. Twain, Mark. me- yow!” down there. He says:Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.