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1He got out two or three curtain-calico suits, which he said was meedyevil armor for Richard III. and t'other chap, and a
2long white cotton nightshirt and a ruffled nightcap to match. The king was satisfied; so the duke got out his book and
3read the parts over in the most splendid spread-eagle way, prancing around and acting at the same time, to show how it
4had got to be done; then he give the book to the king and told him to get his part by heart. There was a little
5one-horse town about three mile down the bend, and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to
6run in daylight without it being dangersome for Jim; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing. The
7king allowed he would go, too, and see if he couldn't strike something. We was out of coffee, so Jim said I better go
8along with them in the canoe and get some. When we got there there warn't nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly
9dead and still, like Sunday. We found a sick nigger sunning himself in a back yard, and he said everybody that warn't
10too young or too sick or too old was gone to camp-meeting, about two mile back in the woods. The king got the
11directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too. The duke said what
12he was after was a printing-office. We found it; a little bit of a concern, up over a carpenter shop--carpenters and
13printers all gone to the meeting, and no doors locked. It was a dirty, littered-up place, and had ink marks, and
14handbills with pictures of horses and runaway niggers on them, all over the walls. The duke shed his coat and said he
15was all right now. So me and the king lit out for the camp-meeting. We got there in about a half an hour fairly
16dripping, for it was a most awful hot day. There was as much as a thousand people there from twenty mile around. The
17woods was full of teams and wagons, hitched everywheres, feeding out of the wagon-troughs and stomping to keep off the
18flies. There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell,
19and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. The preaching was going on under the same kinds of sheds,
20only they was bigger and held crowds of people. The benches was made out of outside slabs of logs, with holes bored in
21the round side to drive sticks into for legs. They didn't have no backs. The preachers had high platforms to stand on at
22one end of the sheds. The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of
23the young ones had on calico. Some of the young men was barefooted, and some of the children didn't have on any clothes
24but just a tow-linen shirt. Some of the old women was knitting, and some of the young folks was courting on the sly. The
25first shed we come to the preacher was lining out a hymn. He lined out two lines, everybody sung it, and it was kind of
26grand to hear it, there was so many of them and they done it in such a rousing way; then he lined out two more for them
27to sing--and so on. The people woke up more and more, and sung louder and louder; and towards the end some begun to
28groan, and some begun to shout. Then the preacher begun to preach, and begun in earnest, too; and went weaving first to
29one side of the platform and then the other, and then a-leaning down over the front of it, with his arms and his body
30going all the time, and shouting his words out with all his might; and every now and then he would hold up his Bible and
31spread it open, and kind of pass it around this way and that, shouting, "It's the brazen serpent in the wilderness! Look
32upon it and live!" And people would shout out, "Glory!--A-a-men!" And so he went on, and the people groaning and crying
33and saying amen: "Oh, come to the mourners' bench! come, black with sin! (amen!) come, sick and sore! (amen!) come, lame
34and halt and blind! (amen!) come, pore and needy, sunk in shame! (a-a-men!) come, all that's worn and soiled and
35suffering!--come with a broken spirit! come with a contrite heart! come in your rags and sin and dirt! the waters that
36cleanse is free, the door of heaven stands open--oh, enter in and be at rest!" (a-a-men! glory, glory hallelujah!) And
37so on. You couldn't make out what the preacher said any more, on account of the shouting and crying. Folks got up
38everywheres in the crowd, and worked their way just by main strength to the mourners' bench, with the tears running down
39their faces; and when all the mourners had got up there to the front benches in a crowd, they sung and shouted and flung
40themselves down on the straw, just crazy and wild. Well, the first I knowed the king got a-going, and you could hear him
41over everybody; and next he went a-charging up on to the platform, and the preacher he begged him to speak to the
42people, and he done it. He told them he was a pirate--been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean--and his
43crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home now to take out some fresh men, and thanks to
44goodness he'd been robbed last night and put ashore off of a steamboat without a cent, and he was glad of it; it was the
45blessedest thing that ever happened to him, because he was a changed man now, and happy for the first time in his life;
46and, poor as he was, he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean, and put in the rest of
47his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path; for he could do it better than anybody else, being acquainted
48with all pirate crews in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to get there without money, he would get
49there anyway, and every time he convinced a pirate he would say to him, "Don't you thank me, don't you give me no
50credit; it all belongs to them dear people in Pokeville camp-meeting, natural brothers and benefactors of the race, and
51that dear preacher there, the truest friend a pirate ever had!" And then he busted into tears, and so did everybody.
52Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do
53it, but somebody sings out, "Let him pass the hat around!" Then everybody said it, the preacher too. So the king went
54all through the crowd with his hat swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for
55being so good to the poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls, with the tears
56running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let them kiss him for to remember him by; and he always done
57it; and some of them he hugged and kissed as many as five or six times--and he was invited to stay a week; and everybody
58wanted him to live in their houses, and said they'd think it was an honor; but he said as this was the last day of the
59camp-meeting he couldn't do no good, and besides he was in a sweat to get to the Indian Ocean right off and go to work
60on the pirates. When we got back to the raft and he come to count up he found he had collected eighty-seven dollars and
61seventy-five cents. And then he had fetched away a three-gallon jug of whisky, too, that he found under a wagon when he
62was starting home through the woods. The king said, take it all around, it laid over any day he'd ever put in in the
63missionarying line. He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a
64camp-meeting with.
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