Huck Finn Chapter 6
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Chapter six. Me and Tom Sawyer most got killed by a gangster, Tom Sawyer said that we was in a place called Compton, which weren't a proper part of Los Angeles, but an even better part. If you are looking for Venture, I told him the best place toe venturing back home was down by the river. So he takes me upon a bridge and says he will show me the river they got well, it weren't like Go River I'd ever seen before. There were no trees or mud, but just some great concrete and kind of like a V shape. And then there was a little bit of water like you might find in a creek, not like a proper river. But there was something beautiful and nice about it anyway. It went. It ran right under the road, and it most seemed like nobody even noticed it. Even though it was right out in the open, it seemed like a place where a body could go if they didn't want to go. No bother. Bother with him. My Aunt Polly Tom says. She says that this water starts up there in the mountains. He pointed off up north, where there were some mountains of for a way off and dripped and dribbled all the way down here on the way to the Pacific Ocean. She's a scientist, your aunt, a lawyer. But that don't mean she don't know about rivers and stuff like that. She's just about the smartest person I ever met. She sure is. You know, once out there in the ocean, right? I don't know Pirates. Well, I I should have thought of that. My eyes followed the river down until it disappeared way down below us. I reckon that the ocean was way out there. And I hope that I get to see it one day and maybe meet some really life pirates. And then I struck another idea. So I says to Tom, the river we got back home has gotten critters and stuff birds and muskrats and Kun's follow me, he says, And I did. And we went down under the bridge and cut through another fence. And there we were is a scampering down on the concrete walls of the river. It was kind of slanted like, and we went down until we were up in the water up to our knees look close, Tom says. There's some critters down here, but Tom Sawyer warrant afraid it. Oh, no more. He comes screaming out of the shadows. Surrender now and I won't make you walk the plank. Now I see now that he had a big piece of wood in his hand, a waving it like a saber. So I grabbed 12 and we got to fighting real good weather savers clack, Gleick. He carried me good, but I made him block him even more. You'll get three years in the brig. Tom says. You'll be eating scraps from the galley and carving your story into the wall with a butter knife. He was a coming at me pretty good, and I was backing up trying to fend him off. And I suppose I got distracted by the story he was telling to. So pretty soon I tripped over something on the floor. Tom Sawyer. He quit talking real abrupt. Well, don't stop now, I said. It's a bully, Pete speech and and you were just getting going. But Tom didn't see none. He was looking at something behind me. I turned and almost fainted. There was a shriveled up hand strike, Rob close to my face. It was sticking out from under a blanket or some such and. And me and Tom, we we know right away that it was dealing with a dead body. I had fallen right on top of him during our saber fight. Well, if that didn't take me but half a second to get up off him. Tom Sawyer me were mighty quiet for a time. Out of respect for the dead, of course, All we could see was a hand on account of he was covered by a blanket and his clothes. His hand didn't look human no more, but more like a witches hand. And we couldn't either tell if it was a regular man or a black man or a Mexican.