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Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry -- set up straight;" window was up; so he had She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm. Why, there ain't no end to your airs -- they say you're rich. Hey? -- how's that?" When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry -- why don't you try to behave?" Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. I stood a-looking at him; he set there a-looking at me, with his chair tilted back a little. I set the candle down. I noticed the you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, -- that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. A big double loaf come along, and I most got it with a long stick, but my foot slipped and she floated out further. Of course I was where the current set in the closest to the shore -- I knowed enough for that. But by and by along comes another one, and this time I won. If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine. I played it as low down on them as I could.
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