Aventures d'Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Thinks I, the old man will be glad when he sees this – she’s worth ten dollars. It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore. I just expected there’d be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they’d raise up and laugh at him.

I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.

Well, all at once here comes a canoe just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck. I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t’other one out for what the rise might fetch along. The June rise used to be always luck for me because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts – sometimes a dozen logs together so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill. I reckoned I would have great times now if I was over at the town. I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down, and a sprinkling of bark so I knowed the river had begun to rise. He unlocked the door, and I cleared out up the river-bank. Don’t stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there’s a fish on the lines for breakfast. “Well, I tried to, but I couldn’t I couldn’t budge you.” “Somebody tried to get in, so I was laying for him.” I judged he didn’t know nothing about what he had been doing, so I says: Pap was standing over me looking sour and sick, too. It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.

Aventures d'Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain