Tumor. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2066, 3 October 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tumor. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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(coxtinujed). "UHhtrhimi'l Why, how you talk. It ah n inn oatching ?— in the dark? If yoi' don't imch on to one tooth, you're bound to on another, ain't you ? And you oan't get away with that tooth without fetohing the wholo harrow along, can you ? Well, these kinds of mumps is a kind of a harrow, ai you ■ay — and it cunt no slouch of ft harrow, nuther, you oome to get it hitched on goo*." " Well, it's awful, I think," nays the harelip. " I'll go to Uncle Harvey and " "Oh, jeß," I says, "J wou'd. I wouldn't lose no time." " WVli, why wouldn't you ? " " Junt look at it n minute, and maybe you can see. Hain't your unclos oblcfged to get along homo to I! .inland an fast as (hey c*n 7 And do you reckon they'd be moan enough to go off and leave you to go all that journey by yourselves ? Yon know they'll wait for you. Sj fur, so good. Your uncle Jlirvcy's a preacher, ain't he ? Very well, then ; is a premher going to deceive a steamboat clerk ? la hti going to deceive ft »hip-clerk? — so as to gft them to lot Miss Miry Jane go aboard ? Now you know ho ain't. What icill he do, then ? Why, he'll say, ' It's a great pity, but ray church matters has got to get along the beat way they can ; (or my nieco has been exposed to the dreadful pluribus-unum mumps, and bo it's my bounden duty to net down here and wait the threo months it take* to ihow on her if she'd got it.' But never mind, i( you think it's best to tell your Uncle Harvey " •» "Shuoki, and stay fooling around here when wo could all be having good old times in England whilst we was waiting to iiod out whether Mary Jane's got it or not ? Why, you talk like a muggins." " Well, anyway, maybe you better tell some of the neighbours." " Listen at that, now. Yon do beat all, for natural stupidnes*. Can't tee that tluy'd g) and toil ? Ther' ain't no way but judt to not tell anybody at all," "Well, maybe you're right— yes, I judge you are right." "But I reckon wo ought to toll Uocle Harvey she's gone out a whilo, anyway, co he won't be uneasy about her ? " "Yes, Mibs Mary Jane she wanted you to do that. She says, 'Tell them to give Uncle Harvey and William my lore and a kiss, and say I've run over the river to fee Mr. — Mr. — what f* the name of that rich family your uncle Peter used to think bo much of?— I mean fie one that " " Why you must mean the Apthorpa, ain't it?" "Of couree ; bother them kind of names, a body can't ever seem to remember them, half the time, Bonaehow. Yes, she said, say she hai run over for to ask the Apthorp3 to be sure and come to the auction and buy this house, because she allowed her undo Peter would ruther they had it than anybody else ; and she's going to etiok to them till they say they'll come, and then, if slio ain't too tired ahe's coming home ; and if she is, she'll be home in the morning anyway. She said, don't say nothing abnut the Proctors, but only about tbe Apthorps— which'll be perfeotly true, becaueo she is going there is speak about their buying the house ; I know it, because she told me so, herself.', " All right," they said, and cleared out to lay for their unoles, and give them tho love and the kisses, and tell them th« message. Everything was all right now. The girls wouldn't say nothing baoause they wanted to to go to England ; and the king and tho duke would ruther Mary Jane was off working for the auotion than around in reach of Dootor Robinson. I felt very good ; I judged I had done it pretty neat— l reckoned Tom Sawyer oonldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more ttyle into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. Well, they held the auotion in the publio rquare, along towards the end of the afternoon, and it strung along and it rung along, and the old man he wu on hand and looking his level pissnest, up there longside of tbe auotioner, and chipping in a little Soripture, now and then, or a little goody-goody laying, of lome kind, and the duke he was around goo-gooing for sympathy all he knowed how, and just spreading himielf generly. But by-and-by the king dragged through, and everything was sold. Everything but a little old trifling lot in th« grave-yard. So they'd got to work that cfi— l never see iuoh a giraflt as the king was for wanting to swallow everything. Well, whilit they were at it, a steamboat landed, and in about two minutes up comes a crowd a whooping and yelling and laughing and carrying on, and tinging out : " Here's your opposition line I here's your two sets o' heirs to old Peter Wilki— and yon pays your money and you takes your choioe P' They was fetohing a very nioelooking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling. And my boulp, how the people yelled, and laughed, and kept it up. But I didn't see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any. I reokoned they'd turn pale. But no, nary a pale did they turn. The dukf he never let on he suspioioned what was up, but juit went a goo gooing around, happy and latiified, like a jug that's googling oat buttermilk ; and as for the king, he just gazed and gazed down sorrowful on them new comers like it give him the stomaoh-aohe in his very heart to think there oould be such frauds and rascils in the world. Oh, he done it admirable. Lots of the principal people getbered arouqd the king, to let him nee they was on his side. That old gentleman that bad just come looked all puzzled to death. Pretty soon he begun to speak, and I see, straight oil, he pronounced hit an Englishman, not tbe king's way, though tho king's was pretty good, for an imitation. I can't giro tbe old gent's words' nor I can't imitate him ; but he turned around to the orowd, and Bays, about like this : 41 This is a surprise to me whioh I wasn't looking for ; and I'll acknowledge, candid and frank, I ain't very well fixed to meet it and answer it ; for my brother and me has had misfortunes, he's broke his arm, and our baggage got put off at a town abovo here, last night in the night by a mistake. lam Peter Wilk's brother Harvey, and this is his brother William, which can't hear nor fpeak — and can't even make signs to amount to much, now't he's only got one hand to work them with. We are who we say we are ; and in a d»y or two, when I get the baggage, I can prove it. But, up till then, I won't say nothing more, but go to the hotel and wait." So him and tho new (lummy started off ; and the king he laughs, and blethers out : "Broke hie arm— ier>/ likely ain't it.?— and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and hain't learnt how. Lost their baggage 1 That's mighty good 1— and mighty ingenious— under the circumstance* \" So he laughed again ; and so did every, body else, except three or four, or maybe hall a dozen. One of these was that doctor ; another was a sharp-looking gentleman, with a oarpet bag of the old-fashioned kind made out of carpet-stuff, that had just come off of the steamboat and wan talking to him in a low voice, and glancing towards the kicg now and then and nodding their heads — it was Levi Bill, the lawyer that was gono up to Louisville ; and another one was a big rough hu«ky that come along and listened to all the old gentleman said, and was listening to the king now. And when the king got done, the husky up and says : " Say, looky here ; if you are Harvey Wilks ; when'd you oome to this town ? " " The day bofore the funeral, friend," says the king. 11 But vi hat time o1o 1 Jay?"

! •' In the evenin'— 'bout an hour er two before sundown." "How'djoM oome?" "I come down on the Susan Powell, from Cincinnati." 11 Well, then, how'd yqp ooma to be ap at the Pint in the »wr«wi'-*in a evgnoe ?" " I warn't up at the Pint inTtw mornin'." " It's a lit." Several of them jumped for him and begged him not to talk that way to an old man and a preacher. 11 Preacher be hanged, he's a fraud and a liar. He was up at the Pint that mornin'. "Its a lie." Several of them jumped for him and begged him not to talk that w&j to an old m«n and a prenoher. " Preacher be hanged, he'a a f*aud and a liar. He was up at the Pint that mornin'. I live up there, don't I ? Well, I vrai up there, and he was up there. I tee him there. Ho came in a canoe, along with lim Collins and a boy." The doctor he up and says : " Would you know the boy again if you was to ccc him, Hines V " 1 reokon I would, but I don't know. Why, yonder he if, now. I know him perfeotly easy." It was rao he pointed at. The doctor says " Neighbours,! don't know whether then ew couple is frauds or not; but if thcie two ain't frauds, I am an idiot, that's all. I think it's our duty to see that th«>y don't get away from here till we're looked into this thing. Come aloDg Hines; come along, the sest of you, We'll take these fellows to the tavern and affront them with tha t'other couple, and I reckon we'll find out something belore we get through." It was nuts for the crowd, though maybe not for the king's friends: so we ail started. It was about sundown. The doctor he led me along by the band, and was plenty kind enough bnt he n«vor let ,'/" ray hand. We all got in a big reom in the hotel, and lit up some candles, and fetched in the couple. First, the doctor says : " 1 don't wish to be too hard on these two men, but / think they're frauds, and they may have 'complices that we don't know nothing about. If they have, won't the 'ooinpllce^ get away with that bag of gold Peter Wilka lefc ? It ain't unlikely. If theie men ain't frauds, they won't object to sending for that money and letting us keep it till they prove they're all right — ain't that so?"' Everybody agreed to that. So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place, right at the outstart. But the king he only looked sorrowful, and says : " Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't got any deposition to throw anything in the way of a fair, open, out and out investigation o' this misable businoss; but, alai 1 the money ain't there ; you k'n send and sec, if you want to." 11 Where is it, then ?" " Well, when my niece give it to me to keep for her, I took and hid it inside o* the straw tick o' my bed, not wishin' to bank it for the fow days we'd be here, and considerin' the bed a aafe place, we not bein' used to nigger?, and aflppoi'n' 'cm honest, like servants in England. The niggers stole it the very next mornin' after I nad went down stairs ; and when I told 'em I hadn't missed the money yit, so they got clean away with j it. My servant here k'n tell you 'bout it, gentlemen." The doctor and several said " Shucks I" and I see nobody didn't altogether believe him. One man asked me if I see the niggers ■teal it. I said " no," but I se« them sneaking out of the room and hustling away, and I never thought nothing, only I reckoned they was afraid they had waked up my master and was trying to get away before he had made trouble with them. That was all they aeked me. Then the doctor whirls on me and sayi : "Are you English too." I says "yes;" and him and some others laughed, and said, " Stuff 1" Well, then they tailed in on the general investigation, and there he had it, ap and down, hour in, hour out, and nobody aever said a word about supper, ncr ever seemed to think about it— and so they kept it up, and kept it up ; and it was the wont mixed-op thing you ever see. They made the king tell his yarn, and they made the old gentleman tell his'n ; and anybody but a lot of prejudiced chuckleheadi wonld a tern that the old gentleman was spinning truth and t'other one lies. And hy-and-bye they had me tell what I knowed. The king he give me a* ltfthanded look out of the corner of hia eye, and so I knowed enough to talk on the right side. I begun to tell about Sheffield, and how we lived there, and all about the English Wilkses, and so on ; but I didn't get pretty fur till the doctcr begun to laugh ; and Lflvi Bell, tha lawyer, says: " Set down, my boy, I wouldn't strain myielf, if I was you. I reokon you ain't used to lying, it don't seem to oome handy; what you want is practice. You do it pretty awkward." I didn't oare nothing for the compliment, but I was glad to be let off, anyway. The doctor ho started to say something, and tnrne and says : "If you'd been in town at first, Levi Bell " The king broke in and reaohed out his hand, and says ; •' Why, is this my poor dear brother's old friend that he's wrote io often about ?" The lawyer and him shook hands, and the lawyer smiled and looked pleased, and they talked right along a while, and then to go to one ride and talked low; and at last the lawyer speaks up and says ; "That'll fix it. I'll take the order and ■end it, along with your brother's, and then they'll know it's all right." So they got some paper and a pen, and the king he set down and twisted hit head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something ; and then they give the pen to the duko— and then for the first time, the duke looked siok. But he took the pen and wrote. So then the lawyer turns to the new old gentleman, and says : " You and your brother please write a lino or two and cign your n»m«." The old gentleman wrote, but nobody couldn't read it. The lawyer looked powerful astonished, and says : " Well, it beats rue "—and snaked a lot of old letters out of his pocket, and examined them, and then examined the old man's writing, and then thevi again ; and then says : " These old letters is Mr. lUrvey Wilks ; and here's these two's band-writings, and anybody can ace they didn't write them " (the kingand the duke looked solid and foolish, I tell you, to see how the lawyer had took them in), " and hire's this old gentleman's handwriting, and anybody can tell, easy enough, he didn't writo them— fact is, the scratches he makes ain't properly writing at all. Now here's some letters from— The new old gentleman says : "If you please, let me explain. Nobody can read my hand but my brother there— so he copies for me. It's hit hand you've got there, not mine." " 1IVHI" iayi the lawyer, "this is is a state of things. I've got some of William's letters too ; so if you'll get him to write a line or so we can com " "He can't write with hit left hand, you would see that he wrote his own letters and mine too Look at both, please— they're by the same hand." " The lawyer done it, and says : " I believe it's so— and if it ain't so, there's a heap stronger resemblanoe than I'd noticed berore, anybody. Well, well, well I I thought we was right on the track of a alution, but its gone to grass, partly. But anyway, one thing is proved— these two ain't either of 'em Wilkses "—and he wagged hia head towards the king and the duke. Well, what do you think?— that muleheaded old fool wouldn't give in then 1 Indeed he wouldn't. Said it warn't no fair test. Said his brother William was the cussodeat joker in the world, and hadn't tned to write - he see William waa going to play one of bit) jokes the minute he put the pen to paper.

And bo he warmed up and went warbling and warblmg light along, till he was actually, beginning f to believe whathe"wa« saying, ftimnef/—but pretty soon tho naw old geHtleman broke in, and says : " I've thought of something. Is there an7body here that helped to lay out my br— helped to lay out the late Peter Wilks for buying?" 11 Yes," says somebody," me and Ab Turner dono it. We're both hero." T-hen the old man turna towardß the kin,'; and R.iys : " Per'apa this gentleman can tell mo what was tattooed on his breast ? " Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a rquashed down like a bluff bank that the river haa cut under, it took him so sudden — and mind you, it wns a thing that was calculated to mukc mo^t anybody squash to ge tfetchtd huch a solid ono as that without any notice- because how was hi going to know what was tatooed on tho man / Ha whitened a little — he couldn't hilp it ; and it was mighty atill in there, anil everybody bending a little forwards and goring lit him. Siys 1 to mjßelf, Now he'il tlnow up the spongo — there ain't no more use. Well, did be ? A body em'o hardly believo it, but he didn't. I reckon he thou ;ht he'd keop the thing up till he tired thorn peopb our, no they'd thin out, and him and tho duKe could break liose and get away. Anyway, he sec there, and pretty soon he b gun to smilo, and says : "Mfl It's a very tough question, ain't it ! Yes, sir, I k'n tell you what's tattooed on his breast. It'a jest a email, thin, bluo arrow —that's what it is; and if you don't look clost, you can't see it. Now what do you say —hey?" Well I never sco anything like that old blister for clean out and-out check. Tho new old gentlemen turna brnk towards Ab Turner and hia pard, and liih eye light 1 ) up like ha judged ho had got the king thi» time, and says : " There— you've heard what he said 1 Was there any such mark on Peter Wilks's breast ?'' Both of them spoke up and says : •' We didn't Bee so such mark." "Gaod," says tho old gentleman. "Now, what you d/l ser on his breatt was a email dim P, and a B (>\hich is an initial he dropped when ho was youug), and a W, with daohea between thorn, bu: P— B— W " — and he marked them that way on a piece of paper. " Come— ain't that what you saw ? " B jth ol them spoke up again, and say*. : " No, we didn't. Wo never see any marks at at all." Well, everybody inn in a atate of mind now ; and they Bingn out : " Tho wholo bihn' of'm'fl frauds I La's duck 'em I les drown 'em ! les ride 'em on a lail L" and everybody was whooping at once, and thero waa a rattling pow-wow. But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and say?: " Gentlemen — gentlemen 1 Hear me just a word— just a single word — if you plevhel There's one way yet— let's go and dig up the corpse and look." That took them. " Hooray !" they all shouted, and was starting right off ; but the lawyer and the doctor sung out : " Hold on, hold on I Collar all these four men and the boy, and fetoh them along, tool' Aa we went by our house I wished I hadn't sent Mary June out of town : because now if I oould tip her the wink, she'd light out and save me, and blow on our dead-beats. Well, we swarmed along down the river road, just carrying on like wild-cats ; and so make it more acary, the sky was darkening up, and the lightning beginning to wink and Hitter, and the wind to shiver amongst the leaves. This was the most awful trouble and moit dangersome I ever was in ; and I was kinder stunned ; everything was going so different from what I had allowed for ; stead of being fixed so I could take my own time, if I wanted to, and see all the fun, and hare Mary Jane at my b&ck to save me and set me free when the olost fit come, here was nothing in the world betwixt me and the sudden death but just them tattoo-marks. If they didn't find them — I couldn't bear to thing about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else. It got darker and darker, and it was a beautiful time to give the crowd the slip ; but that big husky had me by the wrist— Hines — and a body might as well try to give Goliar the slip, He dragged me right along, he was so excited ; and I had to ran to keep up. When they got there they swarmed into tho graveyard and washed over it like an overflow. And when they got to the grave, they found they had about a hundred times aa many shovela as they wanted, bat nobody hadn't thought to fetch a lantern. But the sailed into digging, anyway, by they flicker of the lightning, and sent a man to the nearest house a half-a-mile off, to borrow one. At last they got out the coflin, and begun to unscrew the lid, and then such another crowding, and shouldering, and shoving as there was, to scrouge in and get a sight, you never see ; and in the darK, that way, it was awful. Hines he hurt my wrist dreadful, pulling and tugging so, and I reckon he clean forgot I was in the world, he was so exoited and panting. All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluoe of white glare, and somebody sings out: " By the living jingo, here's the bag of gold on his breast. Hives let out a whoop, like everybody else, and dropped my wrist and give a big surge to hust hia way in and get a look, and the way I lit out and shinned for the road in the dark, there ain't nobody can tell. I had the road all to myself, and I fairly flew— leastways I had it all to myself except the solid dark, and the now-and-thon glare*, and the buzzing of the rain, and the thrashing of the wind, and tho splitting of tho thunder ; and sure as you are born I did clip it along 1 When I struck th« town, I see there warn't nobody out in the storm, so I never hunted for no back streets, but humped it straight through the main one ; and when I begun to get towards our house I aimed my ej o nnd set it. No light there ; the house all dark — which made me feel sorry and disappointed, I didn't know why. But at last, jußt as I was sailing by, Jlash comes tho light in M»ry Jane's window I and my heart swelled up sudden, like to bust ; and tho same second the house and all was behind mo in the dark, and wasn't ever going to be before me no more in tbiß world. She mis the beßt girl I ever see, and had the most sand. Tho minute I was far enough above the town to ccc I could make the tow head, I bogun to look sharp for a boat to borrow ; and the first time tho lightning showed me one that wasn't chained, I snatched it and ehoved. It was a oanoe, and warn't fastened with nothing but a rope. The tow-head was a rattling big distance off, away out there in the middle of tho river, but I didn't lose no ime ; and when I struok the raft at last, I was so fagged I would a just laid down to 'blow and gasp if I could afforded it. But I didn't. As I spuing aboard I eung out : •' Out with you, Jim, and set her loo^e ! Glory be to goodness, we're shut of them 1 " Jim lit out, and was a coming for me with both arms spread, he was so full of joy ; but when I glimpsed him in the lighlDing, my heart shot up in my mouth, and I went overboard backwards ; for I forgot he was old King Lear and a drownded A-rab all in one, and it most scared the livers and lights out of me. But Jim fished me out, and was going to hug me and bless mo, and so on, he was so glad I was back and we was shut of the king and the duke, but I fays : " Not now — have ji for breakfast, have it for breakfast ) Cut loose and let her slide ! " 80, in two eeeonds, away we went, a sliding down the river, and it did seem so good^to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us- I had to skip around a bit, and jump up and orack my heals a few times, I couldn't help it ; but

about th<± third crack I noticed a sound thai I knowul mighty well— and held nay breath and listened and waited— and sure enough, w hen the next Hash buFted out over the water, hsic they coiue !— and ju»t a laying to their oaia and miking their skiff hum I It was the kin* and the duke. Hj I wilted right drrwn on to the planks, " then, and up; and it was all I could do to kefp from crying. When they got, aboard, the king wont for me, and shook me by the collar, and says : " Tryin 1 to jjire us the slip, was ye, you pup 1 Tired of our company— hey ?" 1 siy. 'i : " No, your majesty, we warn't— please don't, your raaj j *ty 1" "(ijick, then, and tell us what wai your idea, or I'll shako the insides out o' you I" I lionet, I'll t'll you everything, just as it happened, your majesty. The man that had i\h'At of me wua very good to me, and kept filing he had a boy about aa big as me that died l.\st yeir, and hp was corry to bee a boy in such a dangerous fi\; and when they was nil took by surprise by tiuding the gold, and made a russh for t^e collin, he lets go me and whitper=, ' Heel it, now, or they'll hang ye, Mire 1 ' and I lit o'uh It didn't leem no good for mi' to 6tay— I couldn't do nothing, and I didn't want to be hung if 1 could get away. Ho 111 1 over stopped running till I found tho canoe; and whoa I got hers I told Jim to hurry, or they'd catch me and hang ma yet, and smd I w a-! afeard you and the duke wasn't; ahvp, now, and I was awful sorry, and so was Jnn, and was awful glad when we see you coming, you may a^k Jim if I didn't." Jim said it was so ; and the king told him to shut up, and said, " Oh, yes, it's mighty likely I" and shook me up again, and said he reckoned he'd diownd ma. But the duke sayn : "Loßgo the boy, you old idiot I Would you a done any dnferent? Did you inquire tiround for hnn, when you got loosa? I don't remember it." bo the king let go of mo, and begun to cuss that town and everybody in it. But the duke saye : " You hotter ft blame sight give yourself a g»od cussing, for you're the one that's entitled 10 it most. You hain't done a thing, from the start, that had any sense in it, except coining out no cool and cheeky with that imaginary blue-arrow mark. Tnat was bright —it was ri^ht down bully ; and it wan tho thing that saved us. For if it hadn't been for that, they'd a jailed U8 till them Englishmen's baggivge come — and then— the penitentiary, you bet ! But that trick took 'em to tho graveyard, and the gold done us a still bigger kindness ; for if the excited fools hadn'6 let go all holts and made that rush to get a look, we'd a slept in our cravats to-night — cravats warranted to wear, too— longer than we'd need 'em." They was still a minute — thinking— then the king says, kind of absent-minded like : II Mf I And we reckoned the nig gen stole it!" That made me squirm 1 " Yea," cay« the duke, kinder slow, and deliberate, and sarca&tio, " We did." After about half a minute, the king" drawli out: " Leastways— l did." The duke saye, the same way : "On the oontrary — I did." The king kind of ruffles up, and says : " Looky hero, Bilgewater, what'r referrin' to?" Tfce duke says, pretty brisk : " When it comes to that, maybe you'll lei me ask, what was you referring to? " 11 Shucks 1 " f aya the king, very sarcastio ; " but I don't know — mayba yoj was asleep, and didn't know what you was about." The dule bristles right up now, and says : " Oh, let up on thia cussed nonsense — do you tako me for a blame' fool ? Don't you reckon I know who hid that money in that collia ?" " Yes, sir 1 I know you do know— because you done it yourself." " It's a lie !"— and tho duke went for him. The kinc sings out : " TaKs y'r hands ofi I— leggo my throat I— I take it all back." The duke Bays : " Well, you just own up, first, that you did hide that money there, intending to give me the slip one of these days, and come back and dig it up, and have it all to yourself." "Wait jest a minute, duke — answer me this ono question, honest and fair ; if you didn't put the money there, say it, and I'll b'lievo you, and take back everything I said." " You old scoundrel, I didn't, and you know I didn't. There, nowl " " Well, then, I b'lieve you. But answer me jost this one moro — now don't git mad ; didn't you have it in your mind to hook the money and hide it ? " The duke never said nothing for a little bit ; then he says : " Well-I don't caro if I did, I didn't do it anway. But you not only had it in mind to do v, but you dow it*" " I wishl I may never die it I done it, duke, and that's honest. I won't say I warn't join 1 to do it, because I was ; but you— l mean somebody — got in ahead 0' me." " It's a lie ! You done it, and you got to say you done it, or " The king begun to gurgle, and then ho gasps out: " 'Nough I—l1 — I oirn up 1 " I was very glad to hear him say that, it made me feel much more easier than what I was feeling before. Ho the duke took his hands off, and says : " If you ever deny it ag&in, I'll drown you. It's w( II for you to set there and blubber like a baby — it's fitten for you, after the way you've acted. I never see such an old ostrich for wanting to gobble everything— and I a trusting >ou all the time, like jou waß my own father. You ought to been ashamod of yourself to stand by and hear it saddled on to a lot of pooi niggers and you never saw a word for 'em. It makes me ridiculotu to think I was soft enough to believe that rubbish. Cuss you, I can see, now, why you waa bo anxioua to make up the dcffesit— you wanted to get what money I'd got out of the Nonesuch, acd one thing or another, and scoop at all 1 " Tig king says, tiruid, and Btill a snuflllng : " Wiy, dukt>, it was jou that said make up the dtffcibit, it wnrn't me. ' "Dry up I I don't want to hear no more out of you!" sass the duke. "And noio you eec what you got by it. They've got all their own money back, and all of own but a shekel 01 two, betides. tf'long to bed— and don't you diltersit me no more dcflersits, long's you hvo 1 " So the king sneaked into the wigwam, and took to his bottle for comfort ; and before long tho duke tackled hit, bottle ; and so i>: about half an hour, they waa us thick ns tt'ievos again, and the tighter they got, the lovinger they got ; and went off snoring in each other's arms. They both got powerful, but 1 noticed the king didn't get mellow low enough to forget to remember not to deny about hiding the money-bag again. That made me ffel ea?y and E&tisfled. Of course when they got to Hnonng, we had a long gabble, and I told Jim everything. For the remainder of Huck's adventures in eosrch of Jim wo must refer the reader of these extracts to the book itself. It is well worth the half crown at wbieh it is Bold. It id full of many exceedingly humorous situations, all of them being quite as good if not better than tho specimens we have selected. THE hM>.

"Johnny, put that umbrella away beforo you break it." "0, shut up, " replied Johnny. " What Ibatycu cay?" " Nothing, papa : I only told the umbrella to shut up so I could put it away, »b you told me to." Theexplanation came not a minute too soon, for the old rnjm had already naen from his ohair.— (Danevillo Breeze .