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Chapter XIV

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Next day, towards night, we laid up under ssssssssss

a little willow tow-head out in the ssssssssss

middle, where there was a village on ssssssssss

each side of the river, and the duke ssssssssss

and the king begun to lay out a ssssssssss

plan for working them towns. Jim ssssssssss

he spoke to the duke, and said he ssssssssss

hoped it wouldn't take but a few ssssssssss

hours, because it got mighty heavy ssssssssss

and tiresome to him when he had ssssssssss

to lay all day in the wigwam tied ssssssssss

with the rope. You see, when we ssssssssss

left him all alone we had to tie him, ssssssssss

because if anybody happened on him ssssssssss

all by himself and not tied, it wouldn't ssssssssss

look much like he was a runaway ssssssssss

nigger, you know. So the duke said ssssssssss

it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to

get around it. ssssssssss

He was uncommon bright, the duke was, and he soon struck it. He dressed

Jim up in King Lear's outfit -- it was a long curtain-calico gown, and a white

horse-hair wig and whiskers; and then he took his theatre-paint and painted

Jim's face and hands and ears and neck all over a dead dull solid blue, like a

man that's been drownded nine days. Blamed if he warn't the horriblest looking

outrage I ever see. Then the duke took and wrote out a sign on a shingle so --

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