1 That is just the way with some people.
2 I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em.'
3 And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down.
4 I told him I warn't afraid of him telling the people where I was.
5 We hadn't robbed nobody, hadn't killed any people, but only just pretended.
6 Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
7 Now this was lucky, because I was weakening; I was getting afraid I had come; people might know my voice and find me out.
8 But Tom give him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people.
9 The way things was scattered about we reckoned the people left in a hurry, and warn't fixed so as to carry off most of their stuff.
10 Jim said he reckoned the people in that house stole the coat, because if they'd a knowed the money was there they wouldn't a left it.
11 And he said people allowed there'd be another trial to get me away from him and give me to the widow for my guardian, and they guessed it would win this time.
12 I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him.
13 Tom Sawyer called the hogs "ingots," and he called the turnips and stuff "julery," and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.
14 I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river, because pretty soon I would be passing the ferry landing, and people might see me and hail me.
15 I went out in the woods and cooked a supper, and I had about made up my mind I would stay there all night when I hear a plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk, and says to myself, horses coming; and next I hear people's voices.
16 When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
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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