3810. MALVERN CAVERN

 MALVERN CAVERN

Deep down deep they went so far that

out what seeped was the blackest tar.

I'd never seen anything like this before.  
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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer together

could never have made up this yarn :

Aunt Polly was really a man and

Becky did the whole entire town and

that's how the fence got painted.

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I read it in the wagon, between those

two books Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn,

I'd seen it all and mixed it up enough,

and that ! that was my vagrant youth.

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'Oh on the ole' river a'coursin' I went free,

'jes floatin' old Nigger Jim and me, and

them two crazy guys and the Shepardson

girl and the steeple that rang my demise.

An' I a-never know'd nothin' at all after that.

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Say, Huck, ain't that my noose meant a'fer

your neck ? and how could they mix us up?'