[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link bookAdventures of Huckleberry Finn CHAPTER XVII 16/18
She called them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker--the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler.
She warn't ever the same after that; she never complained, but she kinder pined away and did not live long.
Poor thing, many's the time I made myself go up to the little room that used to be hers and get out her poor old scrap-book and read in it when her pictures had been aggravating me and I had soured on her a little.
I liked all that family, dead ones and all, and warn't going to let anything come between us.
Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn't seem right that there warn't nobody to make some about her now she was gone; so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself, but I couldn't seem to make it go somehow.
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