"
"
,
moving
;
thoughts
,
,
,
fell
petrified
itself
dropped
,
: "Oh, de
po'
-- I'S
DE
! "
17
Utters Dire
Rome,
,
regrets
Michelangelo
;
,
didn't
--Pudd'nhead
's
4
fools
days
proves,
,
per
,
--Pudd'nhead
's
weeks dragged
,
--
,
twins
,
-
,
,
afterward;
,
,
--
,
--
--
,
chucklings
nudgings
winks,
twins
,
,
Driscoll
Tom
closing days
Tom's
-
months
,
trusted
voters,
trusted
sitting
closing
Driscoll,
foreigners
disastrously
rivers
,
forced
meeting
adventures, mountebanks, sideshow
,
freaks;
titles
;
-
barbers disguised
nobilities,
peddlers masquerading
,
-grinders bereft
,
deadliest
;
-
,
closing words:
believed
bunkum,
,
cheers
cries
asking, "
? "
asking
,
;
talking
,
; Tom
hadn't
meant,
,
meant,
asking
meant
,
twins
--
,
,
Tom
St
's Landing
,
,
rumors
Driscoll's
labors
,
Luigi
brothers
,
,
,
streets
18
Roxana Commands
extremities
staying
officials
--Pudd'nhead
's
,
,
,
turkeys
Fiji
turkeys;
plumbers
Fiji
--Pudd'nhead
's
St
,
, apparently trying
-blackened
,
succeeding
Tom Driscoll
,
;
,
entering--
;
Tom
Tom
,
,
,
whistling,
closing
locking
,
,
a-
,
Tom
,
words
,
,
:
"
--I's yo'
! "
Tom
,
gasped
:
"
,
--
;
I meant
,
--
"
Roxana
awhile
mutely
incoherently babbling
-accusations
attempts
;
,
unkept masses
shoulders
"
't
o' yo'n dat dat ain't
,"
, noticing
"
,
! I'm
I
I meant
,
,
, I
"
Roxana
,
words
sobs
lamentingly,
"
pusson
de
--
DE
! --
de bes' ! I wouldn't
! I
en
, en
I
ain't
aroun'
mo',
I
I 'uz trompled
en 'bused
I don't
--
's
Leastways, I's
dat mournin'
mo'
stormin'
"
words
Tom Driscoll,
,
--
lay
,
,
,
,
sounds
beating
panes,
sighing
complaining
winds,
Roxana
sobs
,
"Shet
dat
yit
pusson dat
don't
de
Dah--dat'll
I
whah
, en dat's
I's gwine
de
, en
jes
I
, en
I'll
's
Dat
dat
ain't
;
's
,
planters goes; en
'a'
I'd 'a'
'n
fambly en
'n
:
, en
lookin', en
riz
agin
;
dey sent
de
'mongst de
fiel' han's
Dat
't
wid dat,
de
ag'
'
,
'uz dat
en
;
de
befo'
de mawnin's en
de
dey'uz
; en
's de lashin's I
'ca'se I couldn't
de
o' de stronges'
Dat
wuz
, outen
Englan', en
dat
DEY knows
nigger
, en dey knows
'em
--
'em
dey backs
'
fust
marster
de
de
,
dat 'uz
;
de mistis
, en arter dat I jist ketched
--dey
't
mo'
"
Tom's
--
's
;
, "
,
"
fiercely
,
Roxana
dusk
dazzling
--
;
grieving
's wrongs
feeling
persecutors ? --a
doubting
,
;
, "
de
--
't
; dis'll
en
"
"'
ten
I 'uz sayin'
dat I couldn't las'
mo' weeks I 'uz
wid de
en de lashin's, en
en misable
En I didn't
mo', nuther--
't wuth noth'n'
,
I
dat
,
o'
dat,
? Dey
nigger
'
ten
ole dat 'uz
, en hadn't
mammy, po'
, en I loved
en
loved
; en
whah I uz' workin' en
tater, en
-- robbin'
,
, 'ca'se
knowed de
didn't
--en
ketched
, en
acrost de
wid
,
'uz
, en
' screamin'
de groun', en squirmin' en wallerin' aroun'
de
dat's
I couldn't stan'
de hellfire dat 'uz
'
, en I
de
outen
han' en laid
laid dah moanin' en cussin', en
,
, en de niggers 'uz
sk'yred
Dey
roun'
'p
, en I
hoss en
de
I knowed
dey
wid
en
marster
; en
dey didn't
dat,
'd
furder
de
, en dat's de
I 'lowed
en git
o'
troubles
'uz gitt'n'
I 'uz
de
minutes
, en I
dey ain't
I
;
I ties de hoss
de
o' de
en
de
, keepin'
de
o' de
en prayin'
de
shet
I
'ful
, 'ca'se de
'uz
f'om de
en
'y de
mules
dah
, en
'y niggers
'em, en DEY
't gwine
--dey'd gimme
de
dey
Befo'
de
en
pas'
, en dey couldn't
de hoss en
I
mawnin', en de niggers
'em
de lies dey
'
"
, de
, en I
a-spinnin'
de
I
mo'n
hours,
I
't
mo',
I
paddlin' en
de
, considerin'
I 'uz gwine
I didn't
plans, en
, turnin' 'em
,
'uz
pas'
,
I
, en I
fifteen
twenty
,
de lights o'
layin'
de
, whah dey
't
en
woodyard, en
I ketched de
o' de chimbly tops ag'
' de stars, en
, I '
o'
!
'uz de GRAN'
-- I 'uz
eight seasons
de
en Orleans
I
'
pas'--don't
stirrin' nowhah--
'em a-hammerin'
de
,
I knowed
de
--
o' de
's
I
asho'
de
' de
,
I goes '
, en dey 'uz jes
, en I
' '
de
'uz
'ful
, deckhan's en roustabouts 'uz
aroun'
de fo'cas'l', de
, Jim Bangs,
dah
de bitts wid
,
--'ca'se dat's de
de
stan' de cap'n's
! --en de ole
, Billy
,
'uz a-noddin'
de
;--en I knowed 'em
; en, lan',
dey
! I
, I
marster'd
en
--
yo'
, I's 'mong frien's, I
I tromped
'mongst 'em, en
de b'iler
en '
aft
de ladies'
, en
dah
de
dat I'd
'mos'
hund'd
times, I
; en
'uz jist
ag'
, I
!
"
'
I
de
, en
de
I
de
'
de
,' I
'I
I knows dat
! ' I
de
ag'
'
de
,' I
ag'
'
de
'
ag'
'