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But me and Jim was consulting -- and thinking. And after we'd thought a

minute, I says: ssssssssss

"Say it, Jim." ssssssssss

So he says: ssssssssss

"Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz him dat 'uz

bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on

en save me, neminine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one? Is dat like Mars

Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You let he wouldn't! Well, den, is Jim

gwyne to say it? No, sah -- I doan' budge a step out'n dis place, 'dout a doctor;

not if it's forty year!" ssssssssss

I knowed he was white inside,

and I reckoned he'd say what he did ssssssssss

say -- so it was all right, now, and I ssssssssss

told Tom I was agoing for a doctor. ssssssssss

He raised considerble row about it, ssssssssss

but me and Jim stuck to it and ssssssssss

wouldn't budge; so he was for crawl- ssssssssss

ing out and setting the raft loose ssssssssss

himself; but we wouldn't let him. ssssssssss

Then he give us a piece of his mind ssssssssss

-- but it didn't do no good. ssssssssss

So when he see me getting the

canoe ready, he says: ssssssssss

"Well, then, if you're bound to

go, I'll tell you the way to do, when ssssssssss

you get to the village. Shut the ssssssssss

door, and blindfold the doctor tight ssssssssss

and fast, and make him swear to be ssssssssss

silent as the grave, and put a purse ssssssssss

full of gold in his hand, and then ssssssssss

take and lead him all around the back alleys and everywheres, in the dark, and

then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands,

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