Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventuresof Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and hetold the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told thetruth.

That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it wasAunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.

Aunt Polly-Tom's Aunt Polly, she is-and Mary,and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, withsome stretchers, as I said before.Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that therobbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.

We got six thousand dollars apiece-allgold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up.

Well, Judge Thatcher he took itand put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round-morethan a body could tell what to do with.

The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, andallowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, consideringhow dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't standit no longer I lit out.

I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free andsatisfied.

But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band ofrobbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.

So I wentback.