1 Why, my boy, you are all out of breath.
2 Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you.
3 There was a boy's old speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that, too.
4 Now we're trying to do you a kindness; so you just put twenty miles between us, that's a good boy.
5 He warn't a boy to meeky along up that yard like a sheep; no, he come ca'm and important, like the ram.
6 Never mind, Buck, my boy," says the old man, "you'll have show enough, all in good time, don't you fret about that.
7 And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better.
8 Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I contrived the other things just to make certain.
9 No, my boy," says the old gentleman, "I'm sorry to say 't your driver has deceived you; Nichols's place is down a matter of three mile more.'
10 And they laughed all the time, and that made the duke mad; and everybody left, anyway, before the show was over, but one boy which was asleep.
11 Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.
12 They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or somebody to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others.
13 Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river.
14 I told about Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time ago; and about his little boy the dolphin, that would a been a king, but they took and shut him up in jail, and some say he died there.
15 She pulled me in and shut the door; then she looked in the Testament till she found the paper, and as soon as she read it she looked glad; and before a body could think she grabbed me and give me a squeeze, and said I was the best boy in the world, and not to tell anybody.
16 Well, he hain't come back sence, and they ain't looking for him back till this thing blows over a little, for people thinks now that he killed his boy and fixed things so folks would think robbers done it, and then he'd get Huck's money without having to bother a long time with a lawsuit.
17 It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
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