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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

and said all sorts of kind things to them, and carried their carpet-bags up the bill for them, and let them lean on them and cry, and told the king all about his brother's last moments, and the king he told it all over again on his hands to the duke, and both of them took on about that dead tanner like they'd lost the twelve disciples. Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a bigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.