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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

CHAPTER XVI
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I went along slow then, and I warn't right down certain whether I was glad I started or whether I warn't.

When I was fifty yards off, Jim says: "Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim." Well, I just felt sick.

But I says, I GOT to do it--I can't get OUT of it.

Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped.

One of them says: "What's that yonder ?" "A piece of a raft," I says.
"Do you belong on it ?" "Yes, sir." "Any men on it ?" "Only one, sir." "Well, there's five niggers run off to-night up yonder, above the head of the bend.


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