"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
by Mark Twain

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     We laid low and kept still, and never shoved out till nearly ten o'clock; then we slid by, pretty wide away from the town, and didn't hoist our lantern till we was clear out of sight of it.

     When Jim called me to take the watch at four in the morning, he says:

     "Huck, does you reck'n we gwyne to run acrost any mo' kings on dis trip?"

     "No," I says, "I reckon not."

     "Well," says he, "dat's all right, den. I doan' mine one er two kings, but dat's enough. Dis one's powerful drunk, en de duke ain' much better."

 

     I found Jim had been trying to get him to talk French, so he could hear what it was like; but he said he had been in this country so long, and had so much trouble, he'd forgot it.

 
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