1 But Jim was dead against it at first.
2 I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days.
3 I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
4 I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em.'
5 Well, I warn't long making him understand I warn't dead.
6 Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late.
7 They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
8 I crept up the dead water under the bank, and hadn't no accidents and didn't see nobody.
9 I pulled all around her and hollered a little, but there wasn't any answer; all dead still.
10 AFTER breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn't want to.
11 That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it.
12 I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
13 I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.
14 By the time I got there the sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people.
15 We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle-box, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.
16 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.
17 The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
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