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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

Pap was agoing on so, he never noticed where his old límber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt, pork, and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language–mostly hove at the nigger and the govment, though he give the tubs some, man standing clutching his ankle
RAISING A HOWL.

too, all along, here and there. He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick. But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it;