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sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat. De 'spute warn't

'bout a half a chile, de 'spute was 'bout a whole chile; en de man dat think he

kin settle a 'spute 'bout a whole chile wid a half a chile, doan' know enough to

come in out'n de rain. Doan' talk to me 'bout Sollennun, Huck, I knows him

by de back." ssssssssss

"But I tell you you don't get the point."

"Blame de pint! I reck'n I knows what I knows. En mine you, de real pint

is down furder -- it's down deeper. It lays in de way Sollermun was raised. You

take a man dat's got on'y one er two chillen; is dat man gwyne to be waseful o'

chillen? No, he ain't; he can't 'ford it. He know how to value 'em. But you

take a man dat's got 'bout five million chillen runnin' roun' de house, en it's

diffunt. He as soon chop a chile in two as a cat. Dey's plenty mo'. A chile er

two, mo' er less, warn't no consekens to Sollermun, dad fetch him!"

I never see such a nigger. If he got a notion in his head once, there warn't

no getting it out again. He was the most down on Solomon of any nigger I ever

see. So I went to talking about other kings, and let Solomon slide. I told about

Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time age; and about his

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