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Today we'll be continuing Adventures of Huckleberry.
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Finn by Mark Twain.
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Chapter 30 when they got aboard, the.
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King went for me and shook me.
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By the collar and says trying to give us the slip was e you pup tired of our company, Hay?
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I says no, your majesty, we weren't.
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Please don't, Your Majesty.
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Click then and tell us what was your idea or I'll shake the insides out of you.
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Honest.
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I'll tell you everything just as it happened, your majesty.
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The man that had a hold of me was very good to me and kept saying he had a boy about as big as me that died last year and he was sorry to see a boy in such a dangerous fix.
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And when they was all took by surprise, by finding the gold and made a rush for the coffin, he lets go of me and whispers, heal it now or they'll hang ye sure.
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And I lit out.
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It didn't seem no good for me to stay.
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I couldn't do nothing and I didn't want to be hung if I could get away.
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So I never stopped running till I found the canoe and when I got here I told Jim to hurry or they'd catch me and hang me yet and said I was afeared you and the Duke wasn't alive now and I was awful sorry and so was Jim.
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And was awful glad when we see you coming.
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You may ask Jim if I didn't.
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Jim said it was so.
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And the King told him to shut.
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Up and said, oh, yes, it's mighty.
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Likely, and shook me up again and said he reckoned he drowned me.
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But the Duke says, Let go the boy.
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You old idiot.
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Would you have done any different?
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Did you inquire around for him when you got loose?
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I don't remember it.
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So the King let go of me and begun to cuss that town and everybody in it.
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But the Duke says, you better a blame sight.
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Give yourself a good cussing, for you're the one that's entitled to it most.
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You ain't done a thing from the start that had any sense in it except coming out so cool and cheeky with that imaginary blue arrow mark.
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That was bright.
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It was right down bully.
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And it was the thing that saved us.
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For if it hadn't been for that, they'd had jailed us till the Englishman's baggage come.
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And then the penitentiary, you bet.
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But that trick took them to the graveyard and the gold dunnest.
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Still a bigger kindness.
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For if the excited fools hadn't let go all holtz and made that rush to get a look we'd have slept in our cravats tonight.
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Cravats warranted to wear too longer than we'd need them.
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They was still a minute thinking then the King says, kind of absent minded.
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Like, and we reckoned the servant stole it.
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That made me squirm.
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Yes, says the Duke, kind of slow and deliberate and sarcastic, we did.
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After about a half a minute.
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The King draws out least ways I did.
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The Duke says the same way.
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On the contrary, I did.
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The King kind of ruffles up and.
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Says looky here, Bilgewater, what are you referring to?
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The Duke says, pretty brisk when it comes to that, maybe you'll let me ask.
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What was you referring to?
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Shucks, says the King, very sarcastic.
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But I don't know.
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Maybe you was asleep and didn't know what you was about.
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The Duke bristles up now and says, oh, let up on this cussed nonsense.
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Do you take me for a blame fool?
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Don't you reckon I know who hid that money in that coffin?
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Yes, sir, I know.
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You do know, because you've done it yourself.
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It's a lie.
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And the Duke went for him.
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The King sings out, take your hands off, Lego.
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My throat.
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I take it all back.
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The Duke says, well, you just own up first.
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That you did.
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Hide that money there.
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Intending to give me the slip one of these days and come back and dig it up and have it all to yourself.
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Wait just a minute, Duke.
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Answer me this one question, honest and fair.
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If you didn't put the money there, say it and I'll believe you and take back everything I said.
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You old scoundrel.
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I didn't, and you know I didn't.
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There now well, then, I believe you.
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But answer me only just this one more.
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Now, don't get mad.
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Didn't you have it in your mind to hook the money and hide it?
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The Duke never said nothing for a little bit.
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Then he says, Well, I don't care if I did.
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I didn't do it anyway.
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But you not only had it in mind to do it, but you'd done it.
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I wished I'd never die if I'd done it, Duke, and that's honest.
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I won't say I weren't going to do it, because I was, but you I mean, somebody got in ahead of me.
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It's a lie.
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You've done it, and you got to say you've done it, or the King.
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Began to gurgle, and then he gasps out, Enough.
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I own up.
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I was very glad to hear him say that.
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It made me feel much more easier than what I was feeling before.
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So the Duke took his hands off and says if you ever deny it again, I'll drown you.
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It's well for you to sit there and blubber like a baby.
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It's fitting for you after the way you've acted.
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I never see such an old ostrich for wanting to gobble everything.
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And I trusting you all the time like he was my own father.
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You oughta been ashamed of yourself to stand by and hear it.
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Saddled on to a lot of poor servants and you never say a word for him.
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It makes me feel ridiculous to think I was soft enough to believe that rubbish cuss you.
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I can see now why you were so anxious to make up the deficit.
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You wanted to get what money I'd got out of the nun such in one thing or another and scoop it all, the King says timid and still a snuffling.
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Why, Duke, it was you that said make up the deficit.
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It weren't me.
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Dry up.
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I don't want to hear no more out of you, says the Duke.
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And now you see what you got by it.
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They've got all their own money back and all of ARN but a shackle or two besides.
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Golong to bed and don't you deficit me.
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No more deficits long as you live.
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So the King sneaked into the wig wham and took to his bottle for comfort.
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And before long, the Duke tackled his bottle.
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And so in about a half an hour, they was as thick as thieves again.
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And the tighter they got, the Lovinger they got and went off a snoring in each other's arms.
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They both got powerful mellow.
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But I noticed the King didn't get mellow enough to forget to remember to not deny about hiding the money bag again.
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That made me feel easy and satisfied.
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Of course, when they got to snoring, we had a long gavel and I told Jim everything.
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