He's generally drunk enough." Tom said nothing--went on thinking.

Presently he whispered: "Huck, Muff Potter don't know it.

How can he tell ?" "What's the reason he don't know it ?" "Because he'd just got that whack when Injun Joe done it.

D'you reckon he could see anything?
D'you reckon he knowed anything ?" "By hokey, that's so, Tom!" "And besides, look-a-here--maybe that whack done for HIM!" "No, 'taint likely, Tom.

He had liquor in him; I could see that; and besides, he always has.