"Tom Sawyer"
by Mark Twain

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     "Well, what of it? They'll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger. I don't know him. But I never see a nigger that wouldn't lie. Shucks! Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck."

     "Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water was."

     "In the daytime?"

     "Certainly."

     "With his face to the stump?"

     "Yes. Least I reckon so."

 

     "Did he say anything?"

     "I don't reckon he did. I don't know."

     "Aha! Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say:

     'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,'

 
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