'Tain't fair; and besides if you'll try this thing just a while longer you'll come to like it." "Like it! Yes--the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough.

No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.

I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.

Blame it all! just as we'd got guns, and a cave, and all just fixed to rob, here this dern foolishness has got to come up and spile it all!" Tom saw his opportunity-- "Lookyhere, Huck, being rich ain't going to keep me back from turning robber." "No! Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom ?" "Just as dead earnest as I'm sitting here.

But Huck, we can't let you into the gang if you ain't respectable, you know." Huck's joy was quenched.
"Can't let me in, Tom?
Didn't you let me go for a pirate ?" "Yes, but that's different.