Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Stories and Matters

2018

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“We had the sky up there,

all speckled with stars,

and we used to lay on our backs

and look up at them, and discuss

about whether they was made

or only just happened.

Jim he allowed they was made,

but I allowed they happened;

I judged it would have took too long

to make so many.”