日期：2009-10-08 WE dasn't stop again at any town for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather now, and a mighty long ways from home. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WHEN they got aboard the king went for me, and shook me by the collar, and says: Tryin' to give us the slip, was ye, you pup! Tired of our company, hey? I says: No, your majesty, we warn't -- PLEASE don't, your majesty! Quick, then, and tell us what... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling. And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up. But I didn't see no joke about it, and I judged it would stra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 BY and by it was getting-up time. So I come down the ladder and started for down-stairs; but as I come to the girls' room the door was open, and I see Mary Jane setting by her old hair trunk, which was open and she'd been packing things in it -- get... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 I CREPT to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right. There warn't a sound anywheres. I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WELL, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for spare rooms, and she said she had one spare room, which would do for Uncle William, and she'd give her own room to Uncle Harvey, which was a little bigger, and she would tu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 NEXT day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow towhead out in the middle, where there was a village on each side of the river, and the duke and the king begun to lay out a plan for working them towns. Jim he spoke to the duke, and said he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time. When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and wen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THEY swarmed up towards Sherburn's house, awhooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to see. Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IT was after sun-up now, but we went right on and didn't tie up. The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal. After breakfast the king he took a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THEY asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the daytime instead of running -- was Jim a runaway nigger? Says I: Goodness sakes! would a runaway nigger run SOUTH? No, they allowed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 TWO or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put in the time. It was a monstrous big river down there -- sometimes a mile and a half wide; we run nights,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 COL. GRANGERFORD was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IN about a minute somebody spoke out of a window without putting his head out, and says: Be done, boys! Who's there? I says: It's me. Who's me? George Jackson, sir. What do you want? I don't want nothing, sir. I only want to go along by, but the dog... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession. She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried as many as thirty men, likely. She had five big wig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 BY and by, when we got up, we turned over the truck the gang had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars. We hadn't ever been t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. We'd GOT to find that boat now -- had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IT must a been close on to one o'clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow. If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come,... 阅读全文>>