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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

CHAPTERXXV

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But if you was to go to Europe you'd see a raft of 'em hopping around." "Do they hop ?" "Hop ?--your granny! No!" "Well, what did you say they did, for ?" "Shucks, I only meant you'd SEE 'em--not hopping, of course--what do they want to hop for ?--but I mean you'd just see 'em--scattered around, you know, in a kind of a general way.

Like that old humpbacked Richard." "Richard?
What's his other name ?" "He didn't have any other name.

Kings don't have any but a given name." "No ?" "But they don't." "Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don't want to be a king and have only just a given name, like a nigger.

But say--where you going to dig first ?" "Well, I don't know.

S'pose we tackle that old dead-limb tree on the hill t'other side of Still-House branch ?" "I'm agreed." So they got a crippled pick and a shovel, and set out on their three-mile tramp.


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