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Chapter I

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You don't know about me, without you ssssssssss

have read a book by the name of "The ssssssssss

Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ssssssssss

ain't no matter. That book was made ssssssssss

by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the ssssssssss

truth, mainly. There was things ssssssssss

which he stretched, but mainly he ssssssssss

told the truth. That is nothing. I ssssssssss

never seen anybody but lied, one time ssssssssss

or another, without it was Aunt Polly, ssssssssss

or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt ssssssssss

Polly -- Tom's Aunt Polly, she is -- and ssssssssss

Mary, and the Widow Douglas, is all ssssssssss

told about in that book -- which is ssssssssss

mostly a true book; with some stretch- ssssssssss

ers, as I said before. ssssssssss

Now the way that the book winds

up, is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave,

and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece -- all gold. It was an

awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher, he took it

and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece, all the year

round -- more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas, she

took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living

in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow

was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got

into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But

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