Quotes That Matter – Ch. 1-7
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(1) “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize 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 couldnt 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.” – Chapter 1, pg. #1
(2) “Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitches him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again and hung his hat in a limb to show who had done it. And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and after thatm every time he told it he spread it more and more till by-and-by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle boils.. Jim always kept that five-center piece around his neck with a string and siad it was a charm the devil give to him with own hands and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenver he wanted to, just by saying something to it…. Jim was most ruined, for a servant, because he got so stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches. ” – Chapter 2, pg. #6
(3) “One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hundred camels, and over a thousand “sumter” mules, all loaded down with dimonds, and they didnt have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things. He said we must slick up our swords and guns, and get ready. He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warnt worth a mouthful of ashes more than what they was before. I didnt believe we could lick such a crowd of Spaniards and A-rabs, but I wanted to see the camels and elephants, so I was on hand next day, Saturday, in the ambuscade; and when we got the word we rushed out of the woods and down the hill. But there warnt no Spaniards and A-rabs, and there warnt no camels nor no elephants. It warnt anything but a Sunday-school picnic, and only a primer-class at that…… I didnt see no dimonds, and I told Tom Sawyer so. He said there was loads of them there, anyway; and he said there was A-rabs there, too, and elephants and things. I said, why couldnt we see them, then? He said if I warnt so ignorant, but had read a book called “Don Quixote,” I would know without asking. He said it was all done by enchantment. He said there was hundreds of soldiers there, and elephants and treasure, and so on, but we had enemies which he called magicians; and they had turned the whole thing into an infant Sunday-school, just out of spite. I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians. Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.” – Chapter 3, pg. #12-13
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(5) ” “Dont you give me none o your lip,” says he. “Youve put on considerable many frills since I been away. Ill take you down a peg before I get done with you. Youre educated, too, they say–can read and write. You think youre bettern your father, now, dont you, because he cant? ILL take it out of you. Who told you you might meddle with such hifalutn foolishness, hey?–who told you you could?” …. The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didnt know the old man; so he said courts mustnt interfere and separate families if they could help it; said hed druther not take a child away from its father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit on the business. ”
(6) ” “Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there from Ohio–a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat;