Excerpt from Huck Finn
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Chapter one. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of the adventures of Tom Sawyer. That ain't no matter that book was made by Mr Mark Twain. And he told the truth, mainly there was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That was nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another without it was Aunt Polly or the widow or maybe Mary, Aunt Polly. Tom's Aunt Polly. She is and Mary and the widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book with some stretchers, as I said before. Now, the way the book winds up is this, tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave and it made us rich. We got $6,000 apiece. All gold. It was an awful side of money when it was piled up. Well, judge Thatcher, he took it and put it out at interest and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece. All the year round. More than a body could tell what to do with the widow Douglas. She took me for her son. And allowed, she would civilize me. But it was rough living in the house all the time considering how dismal, regular and decent the widow was in all her ways. And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out, I got into my old rags and my sugar hogshead again and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer, he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.