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SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and
fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the ...
heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face
and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance
of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff ... pocket, and gave up the
idea of trying
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offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they
would resign.
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change...
... its big door sheathed with boiler
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TUESDAY afternoon came, and waned to the twilight. The village of St.
Petersburg still mourned. The lost children ... Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him
were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind
them, and informed ofthe great news.
Three days and nights of toil and ... told them their situation and their famished condition; how
the men didn't believe the wild tale at first, "because," said they, "you are
five miles down the river below the...
...
candles, by the help ofthe calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and
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THAT was all fixed. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile ... the rest of her soul out about it, and
wouldn't count them again not to save her life; she druther die first.
So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the ... And the shirt ain't all that's gone, nuther. Ther's a spoon gone; and
THAT ain't all. There was ten, and now ther's only nine. The calf got the
shirt, I reckon, but the...
... and the boys entered the hole, Tom in
the lead. They toiled their way to the farther end ofthe tunnel, then made
their spliced kite-strings fast and moved on. A few steps brought them to the ... make them raise all they can, off'n their friends; and after
you've kept them a year, if it ain't raised then you kill them. That's the
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CHAPTER ... left the wagon near the door and followed.
The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any
consequence in the village was there. The Thatchers were there, the Harpers,
the Rogerses,...
... "It's one ofthe widow's parties that she's always having. This time it's for
the Welshman and his sons, on account of that scrape they helped her out of
the other night. And ... that there was another person whose modesty
And so forth and so on. He sprung his secret about Huck's share in the
adventure in the finest dramatic manner he was master of, but the surprise ... little side-tables in the same room, after the fashion of that country and
that day. At the proper time Mr. Jones made his little speech, in which he
thanked the widow for the honor she was doing...
... out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them,
with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for
a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of ... says:
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MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and
Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all. ... 'em they all do. So don't make no more fuss
about it. Prisoners ain't ever without rats. There ain't no instance of it. And
they train them, and pet them, and learn them tricks,...
... dripping from the rafters and places every now and
then; and they generly landed in your plate, or down the back of your neck,
and most ofthe time where you didn't want them. Well, they was ... in the
house and not bother them. I am one ofthe gang, but have got religgion and
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IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a ... and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul
was the pick ofthe flock. I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first
haul was.
We got a splendid stock of sorted...
... to the
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THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty
stir in the poor little village of St. ... while to take up the
story ofthe younger ones again and see what sort of men and women they
turned out to be; therefore it will be wisest not to reveal any of that part of
their lives at present. ... over, glorified,
until the reason of many ofthe citizens tottered under the strain ofthe
unhealthy excitement. Every "haunted" house in St. Petersburg and the
neighboring villages...
... a peculiar bird-like
turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of
the mouth at short intervals in the midst ofthe music the reader probably
remembers how ... looked over them about the
room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never
looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair,
the pride of her ... new and powerful interest bore them down and
drove them out of his mind for the time just as men's misfortunes are
forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This new interest was a...
... when they got pretty close on to us we dodged into the bush
and let them go by, and then dropped in behind them. They'd had all the
dogs shut up, so they wouldn't scare off the robbers; ... some of them talking a little, in a low voice, and all of
them fidgety and uneasy, but trying to look like they warn't; but I knowed
they was, because they was always taking off their ... heels and shoved. Then there was
a rush, and a BANG, BANG, BANG! and the bullets fairly whizzed around
us! We heard them sing out:
"Here they are! They've broke for the river! After...
... Why, they've stole everything
they could lay their hands on and we a-watching all the time, mind you.
They stole that shirt right off o' the line! and as for that sheet they made the ... was all right. We followed the men and
the dogs, but they outrun us, and we lost them; but we thought we heard
them on the water, so we got a canoe and took out after them and crossed
over, but ... post-office to get "Sid"; but just as I suspicioned, he
warn't there; so the old man he got a letter out ofthe office, and we waited
awhile longer, but Sid didn't come; so the...
... "
"They're in the trunk. There, now. And they're just the same as they was
when I got them out ofthe office. I hain't looked into them, I hain't touched
them. But ... we was
out ofthe cabin, and we had to rush, and they heard us and let drive at us,
and I got my share, and we dodged out ofthe path and let them go by, and
when the dogs come they warn't ... they was going to do with Jim; and the old
doctor and Uncle Silas followed after Tom into the house. The men was very
huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other...
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THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of
the evasion? what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion ... planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all
safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures
plumb to the mouth ofthe river, and then tell him about his ... then Tom he talked along and talked along, and says, le's all three slide
out of here one of these nights and get an outfit, and go for howling
adventures amongst the Injuns, over in the...
... used the word ‘state’
similarly in the sense ofthe ‘state ofthe people ofthe Jews’: Alan Harding, Medieval Law and
the Foundations ofthe State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20 02) .
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See ... to
call himself the King of France (the territory) and not the King ofthe Franks (the
people). He then stood ‘in the same relation to the soil of France as the baron
to his estate, the tenant to ... this measure. They were small islands of containable
disruption in the tempestuous seas of other rulers. Furthermore, the Hansa
119 Territorial law and theriseofthe state
122
See generally...