spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I

was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me. Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometim

our hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making!" 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. I started out, after breakfast, feeling worried and shaky, and wo

rry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence. It was funny they hadn't come in, after standing around so. I couldn't make it out. It was very curious, somehow. I was go

my shoulder every now and then, but I didn't see nobody. I wa

l out of breath. Did you

ays; "is there

dollars. Quite a fortune for you. You had better let me invest it a

t at all -- nor the six thousand, nuther. I want you to take

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questions about it, please. Y

say

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don't ask me nothing -- then

while, and

SELL all your property to me -- not

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hat means I have bought it of you and paid you f

ned it,

ed it again, and then another time, and it acted just the same. Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened. But it warn't no use; he said it wouldn't talk. He said sometimes it wouldn't talk without money. I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time. (I reckoned I wouldn't say nothing about the dollar I got from the

e said the hairball was all right. He said it would tell my whole fortune if I wanted

ittle while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up. A body can't tell yit which one gwyne to fetch him at de las'. But you is all right. You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo' life, en considable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well a

t up to my room that night t