1 I wanted to be left free to work my plans.
2 You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
3 I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
4 Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free.
5 Then we hung up our signal lantern, and judged that we was free and safe once more.
6 They call that a govment that can't sell a free nigger till he's been in the State six months.
7 We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble.
8 Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States.
9 So in two seconds away we went a-sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river, and nobody to bother us.
10 He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the minute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in a slave country again and no more show for freedom.
11 He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides.
12 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.
13 The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned they would light out and leave him alone.
14 The lot of towheads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome people and all kinds of mean folks, but if we minded our business and didn't talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the free States, and wouldn't have no more trouble.