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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

‘All right — that’s mighty good; they won’t find me,
and they’ll think I’ve been killed, and floated down the
river — there’s something up there that ‘ll help them
think so — so don’t you lose no time, Jim, but just shove

off for the big water as fast as ever you can.’
I never felt easy till the raft was two mile below there
and out in the middle of the Mississippi. Then we hung
up our signal lantern, and judged that we was free and safe
once more. I hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday, so
Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and
pork and cabbage and greens — there ain’t nothing in the
world so good when it’s cooked right — and whilst I eat
my supper we talked and had a good time. I was powerful
glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get
away from the swamp. We said there warn’t no home like
a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and
smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy
and comfortable on a raft.

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