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"No, I didn't. What tow-head? I hain't seen no tow-head."

"You hain't seen no tow-head? Looky here -- didn't de line pull loose en de

raf go a hummin' down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog?''

"What fog?" ssssssssss

"Why de fog. De fog dat's ben aroun' all night. En didn't you whoop, en

didn't I whoop, tell we got mix' up in de islands en one un us got los' en 'tother

one was jis' as good as los', 'kase he didn' know whah he wuz? En didn't I bust

up agin a lot er dem islands en have a turrible time en mos' git drownded? Now

ain' dat so, boss -- ain't it so? You answer me dat."

"Well, this is too many for me, Jim. I hain't seen no fog, nor no islands,

nor no troubles, nor nothing. I been setting here talking with you all night till

you went to sleep about ten minutes ago, and I reckon I done the same. You

couldn't a got drunk in that time, so of course you've been dreaming."

"Dad fetch it, how is I gwyne to dream all dat in ten minutes?"

"Well, hang it all, you did dream it, because there didn't any of it happen."

"But Huck, it's all jis' as plain to me as"

"It don't make no difference how plain it is, there ain't nothing in it. I

know, because I've been here all the time."

Jim didn't say nothing for about five minutes, but set there studying over it.

Then he says: ssssssssss

"Well, den, I reck'n I did dream it, Huck; but dog my cats ef it ain't de

powerfullest dream I ever see. En I hain't ever had no dream b'fo' dat's tired

me like dis one." ssssssssss

"Oh, well, that's all right, because a dream does tire a body like everything,

sometimes. But this one was a staving dream -- tell me all about it, Jim."

So Jim went to work and told me the whole thing right through, just as it

happened, only he painted it up considerable. Then he said he must start in

and "'terpret" it, because it was sent for a warning. He said the first tow-head

stood for a man that would try to do us some good, but the current was another

man that would get us away from him. The whoops was warnings that would

come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to under-

stand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it.

The lot of tow-heads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome

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