"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
by Mark Twain

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     He set there a-mumbling and a-growling a minute, and then he says:

     "AIN'T you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor--and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard. I never see such a son. I bet I'll take some o' these frills out o' you before I'm done with you. Why, there ain't no end to your airs--they say you're rich. Hey?--how's that?"

     "They lie--that's how."

 

     "Looky here--mind how you talk to me; I'm a-standing about all I can stand now--so don't gimme no sass. I've been in town two days, and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. I heard about it away down the river, too. That's why I come. You git me that money to-morrow--I want it."

     "I hain't got no money."

     "It's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it. You git it. I want it."

     "I hain't got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher; he'll tell you the same."

     "All right. I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why. Say, how much you got in your pocket? I want it."

 
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