The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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a bell for supper,
and you had to come on time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go
right to eating, but you had to wait for the Widow to tuck down her head
and grumble a little over the vicuals...”
Huck actually got used to living that way, and liked it for a while.
Until one day he said, “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and
allowed she sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time,
considering how dismal regular and decent the Widow was in all her ways;
and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.”
When Huck’s father came along he got scared. He was terrified of
Pap, his father. He wasn’t in town but a couple weeks, and Pap kidnapped
his own son. He took Huck up into a cabin deep into the woods. Huck said,
“He kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run off. We
lived in that old cabin, and he always locked the door and put the key
under his head nights.” “Every little while he locked me in and went down
to the ...

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