‘Quick, Jim, it ain’t no time for fooling around and moaning there’s a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don’t hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can’t get away from the wreck, there’s one of ’em going to be in a bad fix. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what’s in the books, and get things all muddled up?’ Chapter 2, pg. I’ve seen it in books and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.’ ‘But how can we do it if we don’t know what it is?’ ‘Why blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime but the widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Mornings, before daylight, I slipped into corn fields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing. Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?Ĭonscience says to me ‘What had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her n**ger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you, that you could treat her so mean?…’ I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Well, it made me sick to see it and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me. Share The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn quotes with all your friends I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night, to see such things. I ain’t agoing to tell all that happened – it would make me sick again if I was to do that. It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. You’ll say it’s dirty Low-down business but what if it is? – I’m low down and I’m agoing to steal him, and I want you to keep mum and not let on. Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people – whereas you’re just as brave, and no braver. I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he’d say what he did say – so it was all right, now, and I told Tom I was agoing for a doctor.
I wisht I had de money, I wouldn’ want no’.’ Chapter 8, pg. I owns mysef, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars. ‘Yes-en I’s rich now, come to look at it. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. Well, if I ever struck anything like it, I’m a n**ger. Quotes with page numbers from the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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