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"Now, there's sense in that," I says. "Letting on don't cost nothing;

letting on ain't no trouble; and if it's any object, I don't mind letting on we was

at it a hundred and fifty year. It wouldn't strain me none, after I got my hand

in. So I'll mosey along now, and smouch a couple of case-knives."

"Smouch three," he says; "we want one to make a saw out of."

' -- 'Tom, if it ain't unregular and irreligious to sejest it," I says, "there's an

old rusty saw-blade around yonder sticking under the weatherboarding behind

the smoke-house." ssssssssss

He looked kind of weary and discouraged-like, and says:

"It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck. Run along and smouch

the knives -- three of them." So I done it.

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