1 This time he said the hair-ball was all right.
2 The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
3 I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much.
4 I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it.
5 Jim tried it again, and then another time, and it acted just the same.
6 The judge said it was the holiest time on record, or something like that.
7 Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
8 I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
9 Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
10 He catched me a couple of times and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or outrun him most of the time.
11 He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.
12 I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.
13 I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.
14 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.
15 And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils.
16 I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time.
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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