1 I'm jist a-freezn for something fresh, anyway.
2 Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a nigger.
3 Honor bright, your majesty, I'm telling you the truth.
4 I'm tired of this, but I'll endure it till one o'clock.
5 Well, if that's the way I'm agreed, but I don't take no stock in it.
6 Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck.
7 I says to myself, this is another one that I'm letting him rob her of her money.
8 Seein how I'm dressed, I reckon maybe I better arrive down from St. Louis or Cincinnati, or some other big place.
9 I'll steal it and hide it; and by and by, when I'm away down the river, I'll write a letter and tell Mary Jane where it's hid.
10 I'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and sometimes I'm the freight and passengers.
11 I had it, because I stole it from them; and I stole it to give to you; and I know where I hid it, but I'm afraid it ain't there no more.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXVIII. 12 By and by I says to myself, I can't live this way; I'm a-going to find out who it is that's here on the island with me; I'll find it out or bust.
13 I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here.
14 If you get here before eleven put a candle in this window, and if I don't turn up wait till eleven, and then if I don't turn up it means I'm gone, and out of the way, and safe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXVIII. 15 Well, I says to myself at last, I'm a-going to chance it; I'll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you'll go to.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXVIII. 16 I was your father's friend, and I'm your friend; and I warn you as a friend, and an honest one that wants to protect you and keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn your backs on that scoundrel and have nothing to do with him, the ignorant tramp, with his idiotic Greek and Hebrew, as he calls it.
17 I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't had no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better and actuly safer than a lie.
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