[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer CHAPTERXVI
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"Just think of the fishing that's here." "I don't care for fishing.
I want to go home." "But, Joe, there ain't such another swimming-place anywhere." "Swimming's no good.
I don't seem to care for it, somehow, when there ain't anybody to say I sha'n't go in.
I mean to go home." "Oh, shucks! Baby! You want to see your mother, I reckon." "Yes, I DO want to see my mother--and you would, too, if you had one. I ain't any more baby than you are." And Joe snuffled a little. "Well, we'll let the cry-baby go home to his mother, won't we, Huck? Poor thing--does it want to see its mother? And so it shall.
You like it here, don't you, Huck? We'll stay, won't we ?" Huck said, "Y-e-s"-- without any heart in it. "I'll never speak to you again as long as I live," said Joe, rising. "There now!" And he moved moodily away and began to dress himself. "Who cares!" said Tom.
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