"You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; bu..."

"We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow’s garden, stoopin..."

"Well, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the..."

"Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most..."

"I had shut the door to. Then I turned around and there he was. I used to be scared of him all the ti..."

"Well, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the co..."

"“Git up! What you ’bout?”I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. It was..."

"The sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o’clock. I laid there in the gr..."

"I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that I’d found when I was ex..."

"After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim..."

"“Come in,” says the woman, and I did. She says: “Take a cheer.”I done it. She looked me all over wit..."

"It must a been close on to one o’clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem t..."

"Well, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn..."

"By-and-by, when we got up, we turned over the truck the gang had stole off of the wreck, and found b..."

"We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio..."

"We slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was..."

"In about a minute somebody spoke out of a window without putting his head out, and says:“Be done, bo..."

"Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He wa..."

"Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet an..."

"They asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for,..."

"It was after sun-up now, but we went right on and didn’t tie up. The king and the duke turned out by..."

"They swarmed up towards Sherburn’s house, a-whooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to c..."

"Well, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles..."

"Next day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow tow-head out in the middle, where there wa..."

"The news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from..."

"Well, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for spare rooms, and she sa..."

"I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all r..."

"By-and-by it was getting-up time. So I come down the ladder and started for down-stairs; but as I co..."

"They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his..."

"When they got aboard the king went for me, and shook me by the collar, and says:“Tryin’ to give us t..."

"We dasn’t stop again at any town for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down sou..."

"When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny; the hands was gone to the f..."

"So I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it..."

"We stopped talking, and got to thinking. By-and-by Tom says:“Looky here, Huck, what fools we are to..."

"It would be most an hour yet till breakfast, so we left and struck down into the woods; because Tom..."

"As soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ours..."

"That was all fixed. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they k..."

"Making them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was..."

"In the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopp..."

"We was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a-fishing, wit..."

"The doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-looking old man when I got him up. I told him me and my..."

"The old man was uptown again before breakfast, but couldn’t get no track of Tom; and both of them se..."

"The first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?—what it was..."