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.Mary Jane she setat the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said howbad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and howornery and tough the fried chickens was and all that kind of rot,the way women always do for to force out compliments; and the peo-174 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N Nple all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so said How do youget biscuits to brown so nice? and Where, for the land s sake, didyou get these amaz n pickles? and all that kind of humbug talky-talk, just the way people always does at a supper, you know.And when it was all done me and the hare-lip hadsupper in the kitchen off of the leavings, whilst the otherswas helping the niggers clean up the things.The hare-lip she got topumping me about England, and blest if I didn t think the ice wasgetting mighty thin sometimes.She says: Did you ever see the king? Who? William Fourth? Well, I bet I have he goes to ourchurch. I knowed he was dead years ago, but I never let on.So whenI says he goes to our church, she says: What regular? Yes regular.His pew s right over opposite ourn on t other sidethe pulpit. I thought he lived in London? Well, he does.Where would he live? But I thought you lived in Sheffield? I see I was up a stump.I had to let on to get choked with a chick-en bone, so as to get time to think how to get down again.Then Isays: I mean he goes to our church regular when he s in Sheffield.That sonly in the summer time, when he comes there to take the seabaths. Why, how you talk Sheffield ain t on the sea. Well, who said it was? Why, you did. I didn t nuther. You did! I didn t. You did. I never said nothing of the kind. Well, what did you say, then? Said he come to take the sea baths that s what I said. Well, then, how s he going to take the sea baths if it ain t on the sea? 175 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N N Looky here, I says; did you ever see any Congress-water? Yes. Well, did you have to go to Congress to get it? Why, no. Well, neither does William Fourth have to go to the sea to get asea bath. How does he get it, then? Gets it the way people down here gets Congress-water in barrels.There in the palace at Sheffield they ve got furnaces, and he wants hiswater hot.They can t bile that amount of water away off there at thesea.They haven t got no conveniences for it. Oh, I see, now.You might a said that in the first place and savedtime. When she said that I see I was out of the woods again, and so I wascomfortable and glad.Next, she says: Do you go to church, too? Yes regular. Where do you set? Why, in our pew. Whose pew? Why, ourn your Uncle Harvey s. His n? What does he want with a pew? Wants it to set in.What did you reckon he wanted with it? Why, I thought he d be in the pulpit. Rot him, I forgot he was a preacher.I see I was up a stump again,so I played another chicken bone and got another think.Then I says: Blame it, do you suppose there ain t but one preacher to achurch? Why, what do they want with more? What! to preach before a king? I never did see such a girl as you.They don t have no less than seventeen. Seventeen! My land! Why, I wouldn t set out such a string as that,not if I never got to glory.It must take em a week. Shucks, they don t ALL of em preach the same day only one of em. Well, then, what does the rest of em do? Oh, nothing much.Loll around, pass the plate176 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N N and one thing or another.But mainly they don t do nothing. Well, then, what are they for? Why, they re for style.Don t you know nothing? Well, I don t want to know no such foolishness as that.How isservants treated in England? Do they treat em better n we treat ourniggers? No! A servant ain t nobody there.They treat them worse than dogs. Don t they give em holidays, the way we do, Christmas and NewYear s week, and Fourth of July? Oh, just listen! A body could tell you hain t ever been to Englandby that.Why, Harel why, Joanna, they never see a holiday fromyear s end to year s end; never go to the circus, nor theater, nor nig-ger shows, nor nowheres. Nor church? Nor church. But you always went to church. Well, I was gone up again.I forgot I was the old man s servant.Butnext minute I whirled in on a kind of an explanation how a valleywas different from a common servant and had to go to churchwhether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on account ofits being the law.But I didn t do it pretty good, and when I got doneI see she warn t satisfied.She says: Honest injun, now, hain t you been telling me a lot of lies? Honest injun, says I. None of it at all? None of it at all.Not a lie in it, says I. Lay your hand on this book and say it. I see it warn t nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it andsaid it.So then she looked a little better satisfied, and says: Well, then, I ll believe some of it; but I hope to gracious if I llbelieve the rest. What is it you won t believe, Joe? says Mary Jane, stepping inwith Susan behind her. It ain t right nor kind for you to talk so tohim, and him a stranger and so far from his people.How would youlike to be treated so? 177 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N N That s always your way, Maim always sailing in to help some-body before they re hurt.I hain t done nothing to him.He s toldsome stretchers, I reckon, and I said I wouldn t swallow it all; andthat s every bit and grain I did say.I reckon he can stand a little thinglike that, can t he? I don t care whether twas little or whether twas big; he s here inour house and a stranger, and it wasn t good of you to say it.If youwas in his place it would make you feel ashamed; and so you ought-n t to say a thing to another person that will make them feelashamed. Why, Maim, he said It don t make no difference what he said that ain t the thing.Thething is for you to treat him kind, and not be saying things to makehim remember he ain t in his own country and amongst his ownfolks. I says to myself, this is a girl that I m letting that old reptle rob herof her money!Then Susan she waltzed in; and if you ll believe me, she did giveHare-lip hark from the tomb!Says I to myself, and this is another one that I m letting him rob herof her money!Then Mary Jane she took another inning, and went in sweet andlovely again which was her way; but when she got done there warn thardly anything left o poor Hare-lip.So she hollered. All right, then, says the other girls; you just ask his pardon. 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.Mary Jane she setat the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said howbad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and howornery and tough the fried chickens was and all that kind of rot,the way women always do for to force out compliments; and the peo-174 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N Nple all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so said How do youget biscuits to brown so nice? and Where, for the land s sake, didyou get these amaz n pickles? and all that kind of humbug talky-talk, just the way people always does at a supper, you know.And when it was all done me and the hare-lip hadsupper in the kitchen off of the leavings, whilst the otherswas helping the niggers clean up the things.The hare-lip she got topumping me about England, and blest if I didn t think the ice wasgetting mighty thin sometimes.She says: Did you ever see the king? Who? William Fourth? Well, I bet I have he goes to ourchurch. I knowed he was dead years ago, but I never let on.So whenI says he goes to our church, she says: What regular? Yes regular.His pew s right over opposite ourn on t other sidethe pulpit. I thought he lived in London? Well, he does.Where would he live? But I thought you lived in Sheffield? I see I was up a stump.I had to let on to get choked with a chick-en bone, so as to get time to think how to get down again.Then Isays: I mean he goes to our church regular when he s in Sheffield.That sonly in the summer time, when he comes there to take the seabaths. Why, how you talk Sheffield ain t on the sea. Well, who said it was? Why, you did. I didn t nuther. You did! I didn t. You did. I never said nothing of the kind. Well, what did you say, then? Said he come to take the sea baths that s what I said. Well, then, how s he going to take the sea baths if it ain t on the sea? 175 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N N Looky here, I says; did you ever see any Congress-water? Yes. Well, did you have to go to Congress to get it? Why, no. Well, neither does William Fourth have to go to the sea to get asea bath. How does he get it, then? Gets it the way people down here gets Congress-water in barrels.There in the palace at Sheffield they ve got furnaces, and he wants hiswater hot.They can t bile that amount of water away off there at thesea.They haven t got no conveniences for it. Oh, I see, now.You might a said that in the first place and savedtime. When she said that I see I was out of the woods again, and so I wascomfortable and glad.Next, she says: Do you go to church, too? Yes regular. Where do you set? Why, in our pew. Whose pew? Why, ourn your Uncle Harvey s. His n? What does he want with a pew? Wants it to set in.What did you reckon he wanted with it? Why, I thought he d be in the pulpit. Rot him, I forgot he was a preacher.I see I was up a stump again,so I played another chicken bone and got another think.Then I says: Blame it, do you suppose there ain t but one preacher to achurch? Why, what do they want with more? What! to preach before a king? I never did see such a girl as you.They don t have no less than seventeen. Seventeen! My land! Why, I wouldn t set out such a string as that,not if I never got to glory.It must take em a week. Shucks, they don t ALL of em preach the same day only one of em. Well, then, what does the rest of em do? Oh, nothing much.Loll around, pass the plate176 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N N and one thing or another.But mainly they don t do nothing. Well, then, what are they for? Why, they re for style.Don t you know nothing? Well, I don t want to know no such foolishness as that.How isservants treated in England? Do they treat em better n we treat ourniggers? No! A servant ain t nobody there.They treat them worse than dogs. Don t they give em holidays, the way we do, Christmas and NewYear s week, and Fourth of July? Oh, just listen! A body could tell you hain t ever been to Englandby that.Why, Harel why, Joanna, they never see a holiday fromyear s end to year s end; never go to the circus, nor theater, nor nig-ger shows, nor nowheres. Nor church? Nor church. But you always went to church. Well, I was gone up again.I forgot I was the old man s servant.Butnext minute I whirled in on a kind of an explanation how a valleywas different from a common servant and had to go to churchwhether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on account ofits being the law.But I didn t do it pretty good, and when I got doneI see she warn t satisfied.She says: Honest injun, now, hain t you been telling me a lot of lies? Honest injun, says I. None of it at all? None of it at all.Not a lie in it, says I. Lay your hand on this book and say it. I see it warn t nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it andsaid it.So then she looked a little better satisfied, and says: Well, then, I ll believe some of it; but I hope to gracious if I llbelieve the rest. What is it you won t believe, Joe? says Mary Jane, stepping inwith Susan behind her. It ain t right nor kind for you to talk so tohim, and him a stranger and so far from his people.How would youlike to be treated so? 177 H U C K L E B E R R Y F I N N That s always your way, Maim always sailing in to help some-body before they re hurt.I hain t done nothing to him.He s toldsome stretchers, I reckon, and I said I wouldn t swallow it all; andthat s every bit and grain I did say.I reckon he can stand a little thinglike that, can t he? I don t care whether twas little or whether twas big; he s here inour house and a stranger, and it wasn t good of you to say it.If youwas in his place it would make you feel ashamed; and so you ought-n t to say a thing to another person that will make them feelashamed. Why, Maim, he said It don t make no difference what he said that ain t the thing.Thething is for you to treat him kind, and not be saying things to makehim remember he ain t in his own country and amongst his ownfolks. I says to myself, this is a girl that I m letting that old reptle rob herof her money!Then Susan she waltzed in; and if you ll believe me, she did giveHare-lip hark from the tomb!Says I to myself, and this is another one that I m letting him rob herof her money!Then Mary Jane she took another inning, and went in sweet andlovely again which was her way; but when she got done there warn thardly anything left o poor Hare-lip.So she hollered. All right, then, says the other girls; you just ask his pardon. 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