The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


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I ain't ever going to shake 'em any more. Tom, I wouldn't ever got into  
all this trouble if it hadn't 'a' ben for that money; now you just take  
my sheer of it along with your'n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes--not  
many times, becuz I don't give a dern for a thing 'thout it's tollable  
hard to git--and you go and beg off for me with the widder."  
"Oh, Huck, you know I can't do that. '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."  
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