1 Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.
2 Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me.
3 The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
4 That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
5 I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
6 But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good.
7 She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up.
8 She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more.
9 She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
10 Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.
11 In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
12 The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
13 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.
14 But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.
15 Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.
16 The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
17 After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
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