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Nascent Drama

Well, Aunt Polly she said that when Aunt Sally wrote to her that Tom and Sid had come all right and safe, she says to herself:
 
"Look at that, now! I might have expected it, letting him go off that way without anybody to watch him. So now I got to go and trapse all the way down the river, eleven hundred mile, and find out what that creetur's up to this time, as long as I couldn't seem to get any answer out of you about it."
 
"Why, I never heard nothing from you," says Aunt Sally.
 
"Well, I wonder! Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here."
 
Aunt Polly she turns around slow and severe, and says:
 
"Well -- what?" he says, kind of pettish.
 
"Don t you what me, you impudent thing -- hand out them letters."
 
"Them letters. I be bound, if I have to take a-holt of you I'll -- "
 
"They're in the trunk. There, now. And they're just the same as they was when I got them out of the office. I hain't looked into them, I hain't touched them. But I knowed they'd make trouble, and I thought if you warn't in no hurry, I'd -- "
 
"Well, you do need skinning, there ain't no mistake about it. And I wrote another one to tell you I was coming; and I s'pose he -- "
 
"No, it come yesterday; I hain't read it yet, but it's all right, I've got that one."
 
I wanted to offer to bet two dollars she hadn't, but I reckoned maybe it was just as safe to not to. So I never said nothing.
 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Chapter 43
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THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?
 
-- what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a ###### free that was already free before?
 
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