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1Next day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow tow-head out in the middle, where there was a village on each
2side of the river, and the duke and the king begun to lay out a plan for working them towns. Jim he spoke to the duke,
3and said he hoped it wouldn't take but a few hours, because it got mighty heavy and tiresome to him when he had to lay
4all day in the wigwam tied with the rope. You see, when we left him all alone we had to tie him, because if anybody
5happened on to him all by himself and not tied it wouldn't look much like he was a runaway nigger, you know. So the duke
6said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it. He was uncommon
7bright, the duke was, and he soon struck it. He dressed Jim up in King Lear's outfit--it was a long curtain-calico gown,
8and a white horse-hair wig and whiskers; and then he took his theater paint and painted Jim's face and hands and ears
9and neck all over a dead, dull, solid blue, like a man that's been drownded nine days. Blamed if he warn't the
10horriblest looking outrage I ever see. Then the duke took and wrote out a sign on a shingle so: Sick Arab--but harmless
11when not out of his head. And he nailed that shingle to a lath, and stood the lath up four or five foot in front of the
12wigwam. Jim was satisfied. He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all
13over every time there was a sound. The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling
14around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned
15they would light out and leave him alone. Which was sound enough judgment; but you take the average man, and he wouldn't
16wait for him to howl. Why, he didn't only look like he was dead, he looked considerable more than that. These
17rapscallions wanted to try the Nonesuch again, because there was so much money in it, but they judged it wouldn't be
18safe, because maybe the news might a worked along down by this time. They couldn't hit no project that suited exactly;
19so at last the duke said he reckoned he'd lay off and work his brains an hour or two and see if he couldn't put up
20something on the Arkansaw village; and the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but
21just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way--meaning the devil, I reckon. We had all bought store clothes
22where we stopped last; and now the king put his'n on, and he told me to put mine on. I done it, of course. The king's
23duds was all black, and he did look real swell and starchy. I never knowed how clothes could change a body before. Why,
24before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a
25bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe
26was old Leviticus himself. Jim cleaned up the canoe, and I got my paddle ready. There was a big steamboat laying at the
27shore away up under the point, about three mile above the town--been there a couple of hours, taking on freight. Says
28the king: "Seein' how I'm dressed, I reckon maybe I better arrive down from St. Louis or Cincinnati, or some other big
29place. Go for the steamboat, Huckleberry; we'll come down to the village on her." I didn't have to be ordered twice to
30go and take a steamboat ride. I fetched the shore a half a mile above the village, and then went scooting along the
31bluff bank in the easy water. Pretty soon we come to a nice innocent-looking young country jake setting on a log
32swabbing the sweat off of his face, for it was powerful warm weather; and he had a couple of big carpet-bags by him.
33"Run her nose in shore," says the king. I done it. "Wher' you bound for, young man?" "For the steamboat; going to
34Orleans." "Git aboard," says the king. "Hold on a minute, my servant 'll he'p you with them bags. Jump out and he'p the
35gentleman, Adolphus"--meaning me, I see. I done so, and then we all three started on again. The young chap was mighty
36thankful; said it was tough work toting his baggage such weather. He asked the king where he was going, and the king
37told him he'd come down the river and landed at the other village this morning, and now he was going up a few mile to
38see an old friend on a farm up there. The young fellow says: "When I first see you I says to myself, 'It's Mr. Wilks,
39sure, and he come mighty near getting here in time.' But then I says again, 'No, I reckon it ain't him, or else he
40wouldn't be paddling up the river.' You ain't him, are you?" "No, my name's Blodgett--Elexander Blodgett--Reverend
41Elexander Blodgett, I s'pose I must say, as I'm one o' the Lord's poor servants. But still I'm jist as able to be sorry
42for Mr. Wilks for not arriving in time, all the same, if he's missed anything by it--which I hope he hasn't." "Well, he
43don't miss any property by it, because he'll get that all right; but he's missed seeing his brother Peter die--which he
44mayn't mind, nobody can tell as to that--but his brother would a give anything in this world to see him before he died;
45never talked about nothing else all these three weeks; hadn't seen him since they was boys together--and hadn't ever
46seen his brother William at all--that's the deef and dumb one--William ain't more than thirty or thirty-five. Peter and
47George were the only ones that come out here; George was the married brother; him and his wife both died last year.
48Harvey and William's the only ones that's left now; and, as I was saying, they haven't got here in time." "Did anybody
49send 'em word?" "Oh, yes; a month or two ago, when Peter was first took; because Peter said then that he sorter felt
50like he warn't going to get well this time. You see, he was pretty old, and George's g'yirls was too young to be much
51company for him, except Mary Jane, the red-headed one; and so he was kinder lonesome after George and his wife died, and
52didn't seem to care much to live. He most desperately wanted to see Harvey--and William, too, for that matter--because
53he was one of them kind that can't bear to make a will. He left a letter behind for Harvey, and said he'd told in it
54where his money was hid, and how he wanted the rest of the property divided up so George's g'yirls would be all
55right--for George didn't leave nothing. And that letter was all they could get him to put a pen to." "Why do you reckon
56Harvey don't come? Wher' does he live?" "Oh, he lives in England--Sheffield--preaches there--hasn't ever been in this
57country. He hasn't had any too much time--and besides he mightn't a got the letter at all, you know." "Too bad, too bad
58he couldn't a lived to see his brothers, poor soul. You going to Orleans, you say?" "Yes, but that ain't only a part of
59it. I'm going in a ship, next Wednesday, for Ryo Janeero, where my uncle lives." "It's a pretty long journey. But it'll
60be lovely; wisht I was a-going. Is Mary Jane the oldest? How old is the others?" "Mary Jane's nineteen, Susan's fifteen,
61and Joanna's about fourteen--that's the one that gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip." "Poor things! to be
62left alone in the cold world so." "Well, they could be worse off. Old Peter had friends, and they ain't going to let
63them come to no harm. There's Hobson, the Babtis' preacher; and Deacon Lot Hovey, and Ben Rucker, and Abner Shackleford,
64and Levi Bell, the lawyer; and Dr. Robinson, and their wives, and the widow Bartley, and--well, there's a lot of them;
65but these are the ones that Peter was thickest with, and used to write about sometimes, when he wrote home; so Harvey
66'll know where to look for friends when he gets here."
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