"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
by Mark Twain

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     WE stopped talking, and got to thinking. By and by Tom says:

     "Looky here, Huck, what fools we are to not think of it before! I bet I know where Jim is."

     "No! Where?"

     "In that hut down by the ash-hopper. Why, looky here. When we was at dinner, didn't you see a nigger man go in there with some vittles?"

     "Yes."

     "What did you think the vittles was for?"

 

     "For a dog."

     "So 'd I. Well, it wasn't for a dog."

     "Why?"

     "Because part of it was watermelon."

     "So it was--I noticed it. Well, it does beat all that I never thought about a dog not eating watermelon. It shows how a body can see and don't see at the same time."

 
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