And you did just right, said the widow. Come with me, boys.
She took them to a bedchamber and said:
Now wash and dress yourselves. Here are two new suits of
clothes shirts, socks, everything complete. They re Huck s no, no
thanks, Huck Mr. Jones bought one and I the other. But they ll fit both
of you. Get into them. We ll wait come down when you are slicked up
enough.
Then she left.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Huck said: Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope. The window ain t
high from the ground.
Shucks! what do you want to slope for?
Well, I ain t used to that kind of a crowd. I can t stand it. I ain t
going down there, Tom.
Oh, bother! It ain t anything. I don t mind it a bit. I ll take care of
you.
Sid appeared.
Tom, said he, auntie has been waiting for you all the afternoon. Mary
got your Sunday clothes ready, and everybody s been fretting about you.
Say ain t this grease and clay, on your clothes?
Now, Mr. Siddy, you jist tend to your own business. What s all this
blowout about, anyway?
It s one of the widow s parties that she s always having. This time
it s for the Welshman and his sons, on account of that scrape they
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