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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