"Life is a wink of time" "Heaven's a lonely climb" "The road is so dark and long" "Paved with all kinds of wrong" "And freedom" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "Sun warms the earth below" "Earth drinks the winter snow" "Seas feed the winds that blow" "Rain makes the grain to grow" "And freedom" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "We're all born to live" "With love to give" "Free in the heart and mind" "We're all born to be" "With a soul that's free" "Man made the chains that bind" "Freedom" "Talkin' 'bout freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "God made the sun to rise" "And God made the earth and skies" "God made the seas and plains" "God made the winds and rains" "And freedom" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make" "His own" "Huck, oh, ho, Huckleberry" "Huck, say, hey" "Say, Huckleberry, Huck" "Oh, oh, Huckleberry" "Say, Huckleberry Finn" "Say, Huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn" "To the possum, you're the next of kin" "Hey, Huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn" "Boss is gonna getcha, gonna fetcha home" "Hey, Huck" "Gonna bet you're somewheres off alone" "You all seen Huckleberry?" "No, Jim." "Hey, Huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Marybelle, have you seen Huckleberry?" "No, not around here, I haven't." "All right." "Thank you." "Sun's a-settin' in the same old place" "Moon's about to climb the sky" "You're a-wastin' all my time a-chasin'" "'Cause your supper is about to fry" "Mr. Tomkins... has Huck Finn been in here today?" "No, he hasn't, Jim." "Well, I best go on down to the river, then." "Ho, ho, Huckleberry" "Huck, ho, ho, Huckleberry" "Huck, say, hey" "Hey, Huckleberry, Huck, ho, ho" "Huckleberry, hey, Huckleberry, hey" "Folks are cozying' to home 'bout now" "But you're out mozyin'" "So I've been chozyin'" "To fetch you back to home with me" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Jim!" "Oh, I knew it wasn't no catfish." "Tug was more like a whale." "You got to get home quick." "The ladies are waiting supper on you, and I know you don't want no more punishment, now do you, Huckleberry?" " Heck, no." " All right, then." "Let's go." "And Mr. Dobbins said all you have to do is learn to apply yourself better." "He said you had good natural intelligence and you learn very fast." "He could be the head of the class if he'd only try." "I'd like to see him the head of the Sunday school class." "In fact, I'd just like to see him in his Sunday school class." "Just what was your lesson for next Sunday?" "Mmm..." "Moses a-a-and the bull rushers." "Huckleberry, dear, my sister and I are only concerned about your future." "Judge Thatcher put that buried treasure money that you found into a trust." "When you come of age, you're going to be a young gentlemen of considerable means." "You don't have to end up like your father... a derelict with his body floating down the river." "Sometimes I get the feelin' that Pap ain't dead." "And that body they found floatin' was floatin' face up." "And everybody knows that a dead man floats face down." "Leastwise, that's the feelin' I get." "Better get upstairs and do your studying now, Huckleberry." "Yes, ma'am." "And it wouldn't hurt to take another look at that chapter on Moses and the bull rushers." "Yes, ma'am." "I'm getting more concerned about that boy every day." "Oh, sister." "You worry too much." "You think you're a good deal of a big bug, don't ya?" "Pap!" "You ain't dead!" "You've put on considerable many frills since I've been away." "You can read and write." "Who told you you might meddle with such high-falutin' foolishness, huh?" " The widder." " The widder, eh?" "!" "Who told the widder she could put in her shovel of a thing that ain't none of her business?" "Nobody, Pap." "I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father." "Let on to be better than what he is!" "They say you're rich, eh?" "How's that?" "Well, I found some money, Pap." "They put it in a trust till..." "Liar!" "Mr. Finn!" "What are you doing?" "!" "What do you want?" "What I'm doin' is learnin' my son not to lie." "And what I want is what's rightfully mine." "The money he's lyin' about." "Come on!" "Huckleberry has no money!" "None he can put his hands on..." "All I know is I want $1,000!" "Now, if you ever wanna see this kid again, you have it for me in two days." " Come on!" " We're poor women." "Where would we get that much money?" "You're a poor woman, ain't ya?" "With a big, healthy slave down there who'll fetch a fine piece of money from the slave traders." "Come on!" "Please, Mr. Finn!" "Mr. Finn, please let me talk to you." "Mr. Finn, please!" "Please!" "Don't take him away from me!" "Mr. Finn!" "Two days!" "You have the money here." "I'll be back." " Honey." " Jim." "I gotta go." "I gotta go now." "I gotta get away from here." "Got to go?" "What did you do, Jim?" "I ain't done nothin', but they're gonna sell me to the slave traders." " Not Miss Watson." " She can't help it." "Huck's pap done came and took him away." "And the ladies..." "they need the money to buy Huck back." "Jim, you know what they do to runaway slaves." "They catch you, they whip you, they truss you up like a hog!" "But if they sell me..." "then I may as well be dead." "'Cause I won't never see you no more." "But where will you go?" "Where will you hide?" "I'll try to make it to the free states." "To... well, to Cairo, Illinois." "That's... that's the closest place." "Cairo?" "Why, that must be a thousand miles from here." "Someday there ain't gonna be no more good-byes." "Someday, honey, darlin'" "Won't be tears in your eyes" "And someday we'll be standing" "With our heads held up high" "Smilin' and a-laughin'" "Just for no reason why" "I see it plain that somehow" "I don't know now" "But I know we'll be fine" "Trust me, oh, honey, trust me" "'Cause I've seen me a sign" "That someday, honey, darlin'" "Don't know how long it'd be" "Honey, darlin'" "Honey, darlin'" "You must remember this" "Though I'm goin' far away" "It's gonna be all sunshine" "And singin'" "Someday" "I can't explain, but somehow" "I don't know now" "But I know we'll be fine" "You, me, and the baby" "Oh, I've seen me that sign" "That someday, honey, darlin'" "Don't know how long it'd be" "Honey, darlin'" "Honey, darlin'" "You belong just to me" "Pap!" "Pap!" "Wake up!" "Pap, you was havin' another one of your fits." "It ain't fair." "You sleep sound while I've got the demons chasing me." "Likes I won't get no sleep till I'm dead." "Get yourself down to the lines, see if we got any breakfast." "What's takin' you so long?" "!" "Hurry up!" " We get any fish?" " Yeah, Pa!" "I fell in, Pap." "It ain't so bad, us bein' together again." "Is it, Pap?" "Just don't get too comfortable about it." "As soon as I get that money, I don't care if you go straight to hell." "You've been bad luck for me since the day you was born!" "You killed your mother gettin' born..." "you know that!" "I'm goin' across to Hannibal now." "And your two sweet old ladies better have my $1,000." "My son comes into money" "I'll tell ya what I see" "Two gospel-spoutin' biddies is stealing' it from me" "I never got a tumble, I never got a break" "But now my luck's a-changin'" "I'll get all I can take" "Rotten luck" "Filthy rotten luck" "The only kind of luck I ever had" "Rotten luck" "Stinkin' rotten luck" "But now, at last, my luck" "Ha!" "It ain't so bad!" "They're all liars!" "Runaway slave." "Like hell he run away." "Murder!" "Murder!" "He's been murdered!" "Huck, can you..." "can you hear me?" "Here, sit up." "Take it easy now." "There you are." "You rest easy, right there." "Take it easy." "Here." "Drink this." "Oh, I gave you up for dead almost two days ago." " What happened, Jim?" " Snake bite." "The only thing to do is to cut an X, suck out the poison and pray." "What's this?" "That's... that's a hex." "I ain't stuperstitious or nothin', but, uh..." "Well, with a friend's life, you don't wanna take too many chances." "Gosh, Jim." "Thanks for savin' my life." "Don't thank me." "You best thank that hex." "They been comin' past this island every day shooting' off them cannons tryin' to raise your body." "I heard 'em talkin' from the boats." "You supposed to be murdered." "Well, I just had to get away from Pap." "So I broke out and I killed me this wild pig." "Then I bloodied up the place real smart." "Well, they tell me it's real bad luck makin' out like you're dead." "How'd you come to get here, Jim?" " I ran away, Huck." " You ran away?" "And now you know, and now they your troubles, too." "So, I figure, I die showing' nothin' they sell me down to New Orleans to them slave traders." "So I come here, and I'm just about finished building' me this raft with a wigwam on it and a nice, dry sand on the floor." "Well, anywheres you land they's gonna pick you up for runaway." "Don't you know that?" "Not if I make it to the free states, they ain't." "Free states?" "!" "That's pretty far." "Cairo, Illinois." "We gonna cha-dugga-dugga on down the river to the free states!" "Gotta get away" "To Cairo-airo" "Gotta get away" "To Cairo-airo" "Down the river a thousand miles" "That's where we gonna live in style" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "Gonna get a store in Cairo-airo" " Gonna build a house" " Where?" "In Cairo-airo" "Gonna get a store and sell dry goods" "And build my house in the piney woods" "In Cairo-airo" " Illinois?" " That's it, you got it" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "Gonna catch a boat" "From Cairo-airo" "Down to New Orleans" "From Cairo-airo" "What do you know about New Orleans?" "Gonna ship on out from New Orleans" "Sail to the land of the coffee bean" "From Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "From Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "Gotta get away" "To Cairo-airo" "Gotta get away" "To Cairo-airo" "Down the river a thousand miles" "That's where we gonna live in style" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "Gonna get a-rich" "In Cairo-airo" "Rich as an Egyptian pharaoh-airo" "Gonna buy my child" "Buy my wife" "And we're gonna live that rich, free life" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "Jim!" "Look!" "Hey, looks like a wrecked houseboat." "Looks like she hasn't been a-ground too long." "You know, Huck, we just may be in luck." "You tie her off here and I'll see what we can find." "Oh, we gonna feast fancy tonight!" "Pap." "You find anything?" "Nothin'." "There ain't nothin' in there but... a dead man." "It ain't nothin' but a house of death." "Let's get outta here." "Goshen should be over there." "Huck, we're lost." "Well, let's head for that cove over there." "I'll find out where we are." " Who is it?" " Just me, ma'am." "Well, who's "just me"?" "Sarah Williams, ma'am." "Well, whereabouts you live?" "In this neighborhood?" "In Bookerville." "I've walked all the way, and I'm all tired out." "Hungry, too, I reckon." "I'll fetch you somethin' to eat." "Come in and take a chair." "Thank you, ma'am." "But I ain't hungry." "You see, my mother's down sick and out of money and everything." "And, well, I come to visit my uncle." "And, well, I never been here in Goshen before." "Goshen?" "This ain't Goshen, child." "This is St. Petersburg." "St. Petersburg?" "Goshen's 30 miles up the river." " Who told you this was Goshen?" " Why, a man I met this morning." "Well, he was drunk, I reckon." "And you, poor thing, walkin' around with a murderin' runaway slave hiding' out in these parts." "A murdering' slave?" "Killed a lad named Huck Finn." "Near Hannibal." "It's an $800 reward on his head." "What did you say your name was, honey?" "Mary Williams." "I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in." "Yes, ma'am, I did." "It's Sarah Mary Williams." "Oh, that's the way it is, is it?" "Yes, ma'am." "Maybe you'll find a bigger needle in there." "What's your real name?" "Is it Tom?" "Dick?" "Bob?" "What is it?" "Please don't poke fun at a poor girl like me." "If I'm in your way..." "Just sit right down there." "You're a runaway 'prentice, ain't you?" "Well, ma'am..." "Yes, ma'am." "I won't tell on you." "Don't worry." "Now tell me all about it." "My mother and father's dead." "And the law... well, they bound me out to this mean old farmer in the country, and so I stole some of his daughter's old clothes and cleared out." "When a cow's laying down, which side of it gets up first?" "Hind end, ma'am." " Well, then a horse?" " Forward end, ma'am." "If 15 cows is browsing' on a hillside, how many eat facing' in the same direction?" "Well, the whole 15, ma'am." "Well, I reckon you have lived in the country." "I thought you was tryin' to hocus me again." "No, ma'am." "Tell me, what's your real name?" "George Peters, ma'am." " Well, try to remember it, George." " Yes, ma'am." "You do a girl tolerable poor." "Trot along to your uncle, Sarah-Mary-Williams-George-Peters." "You'll fetch Goshen by goin' through town and following' the river up." "Yes, ma'am." "Thank ya." "Mind you, boy." "Go through town." "Whatever you do, don't cut through that plantation." "No, ma'am." "Good night, ma'am." "Be done, boys!" "Hush!" " Who be ya?" " George Jackson, sir." "Stand up, boy." "Whatcha doin' prowling' round here this time of the night for?" "I'm lost." "Fell overboard off the steamboat." "Jace." "Now, look here." "You're tellin' the truth, you needn't be afraid." " Nobody's gonna hurt you." " Clothes are dry, Pa." "How come your clothes are dry, George Jackson?" "Well, I fell off this afternoon." "George Jackson..." "are you kin to the Shepherdsons?" "No, sir." "You know the Shepherdsons?" "No, sir." "I never heard of 'em." "Mr. Jackson, I'm Colonel Saul Grangerford." "And these are my sons." "It would be my distinct pleasure to have you as our guest here at Grangerford." "Gimme your arm, boy!" "Come in." "Mr. Jackson, sir, my name is Buck." "And whiles you're here at Grangerford Manor," "I will be your personal manservant and valet." "Well, would you mind fetching' me out of this here contraption?" "See, I usually does my body-washin' in the river." "Here at Grangerford Manor, there are only gentlefolks." "And they do all their body-washing inside the house." "What's this?" "This is your nightcap, sir." "All gentlefolks wear this." " 'Night, Mr. Jackson." " Good night." "Jim!" " Good morning, family." " Good morning, Papa." " Sleep well, Mr. Jackson?" " Oh, yes." "Thank you, sir." "But... if it's all right with you, I'd like to leave after breakfast." "Don't worry, boy." "We won't let you outstay your welcome." "Mr. Jackson, you look like a bright young man." "Thank you, sir." "Tell me, Mr. Jackson, where was Moses when the candle went out?" "Well, I don't know." "I never heard of it before." "Was he in the bull rushers?" "Well, guess." "How can I guess if I never heard of it before?" "Well, you can guess, can't ya?" "It's just as easy." " Which candle?" " Any candle." "I don't know where he was." "Where was he?" "Why, he was in the dark..." "that's where he was!" " Miss Charlotte." " Thank you, Mitzi." "I have just composed my finest poem." "It's all about a boy by the name of Stephen Dowling Botts that fell down a well and was drownded." "Drownded?" "Would you like me to read my poem?" "I'd be mighty obliged, Miss Emmeline." ""Ode to Stephen Dowling Botts, deceased."" ""And did young Stephen sicken?" ""And did young Stephen die?" ""And did the sad hearts thicken?" ""And did the mourners cry?" ""No, such was not the fate of young Stephen Dowling Botts." ""His soul did from this cold world fly by falling' down a well."" "Mighty inspirational, Miss Emmeline." "Mighty inspirational." "I'm so worried about Charlotte." "So worried." "Don't fuss, Rachel, honey." "Don't fuss." "Clive, I must apologize for Charlotte." "I came all the way from New Hope." "I know." "And I'm most sorry." "Just a few friends and relations, Mr. Jackson." " Handsome tradition, don't you think?" " Oh, yes, sir." "Drink up, Mr. Jackson." "Good Grangerford punch." "Saul, you don't seem to understand." "I haven't seen hide nor hair of our Charlotte since early afternoon." "And she knows Cousin Clive has come all the way from New Hope to see her." "I sent Jason into town to find her." "Don't fret, Rachel, honey." "She'll be along." "My daughters prepared a little entertainment for you." "So, you all gather around." "I found a rose in a Bible" "Who knows the story it told" "Pressed there with joy or with a tear" "It was just a forgotten souvenir" "Is our love a rose in a Bible?" "A bud that will lose its perfume" "Please tell me no" "Say that our love will grow" "Like a flower" "Forever in bloom" "Now, would all you gentlemen and ladies join us?" "I found a rose in a Bible" "Who knows the story it told" "Pressed there with joy" " Mr. Jackson, sir." " Thank you." "Aren't you going to ask me for a dance, Mr. Jackson?" "Ma'am, I don't rightly know." "Is our love a rose in a Bible?" "A bud that will lose its perfume" "Please tell me no" "Say that our love will grow" "Like a flower" "Forever in..." "Pa!" "She's run off!" "Charlotte!" "She's run off!" "My own sister!" "She's run off and eloped with Harvey Shepherdson." "Horses!" "Weapons!" "We're gonna kill us some Shepherdsons tonight." "Ain't no need for horses, Pa." "The Shepherdsons have surrounded the place now." "Bring out the guns." "All women and children into the wine cellar." "Buck!" "He's my gun bearer and my loader." "Mr. Jackson, I think you're man enough to watch me kill some of those Shepherdsons." "I think you're gonna enjoy it!" "Thank you, Buck." "Stay with me." "Snuff out the lights." "Polluters!" "Defilers of our Shepherdson blood." "Tonight we spill Grangerford blood!" "It's a matter of honor!" "Bull's eye." "Feud is a funny thing, Mr. Jackson." "Man has a quarrel with another man, and he kills him." "And that other man's brother..." "he kills him." "And the other brothers on both sides they go for one another." "Then the cousins chip in." "If you'd be so kind as to rip down that drape and stomp out the fire," "I'd be ever so grateful to ya, Mr. Jackson." "Buck!" "Gimme my pistol." "Williams!" "Bring me some punch." "Take your coat off, Mr. Jackson." "You're in action now!" "Thank you, Buck." "How long's this feud been going on, Colonel?" "Oh, 60 years or somewhere about that." "What was the trouble about?" "I don't rightly know." "It was about some land or something." "Who done the shooting?" "Was it Grangerford or was it Shepherdson?" "That, Mr. Jackson, is entirely beside the point." "It has now become a matter of honor." "Come with me, Mr. Jackson." "Come with me." "Come on, Mr. Jackson." "Now's your chance." "River's down there." "If I was you, Mr. Jackson," "I'd get myself far away from these here gentlefolks." "Thank you, Buck." "I'm much obliged to ya." "Mr. Jackson, sir!" "Mr. Jackson, sir!" "Oh, Mr. Jackson." "I was only playin' possum!" " Good-bye, Buck." " Good-bye." "Is that you?" "Hey, I've never been happier to see somebody in my whole life!" "Thank God you're all right." "I heard them shots last night, I thought they killed you." " What did they do to you?" " Let's not lose any time." "Let's just shove off for the big water as fast as we can." "All right." "That must've been Goshen back there." "We come 30 miles, Jim." "Yep." "You know..." "there ain't no home like a raft." "Other places seem so cramped up and smothery." "But a raft doesn't." "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." "There's only one thing bothering' me." "And that's folks thinkin' that I murdered you." "My being' called a runaway..." "that don't bother me at all." "But I don't wanna be called no murderer." "Well, you know I can't show my face back to Hannibal and tell folks I haven't been murdered." "They'd send me back to Pap for sure." "The way I see it, we just gotta stick together now." "I'm your only evidence." " Turn in this here cove!" " Yes, sir!" "I can't wait till we get to Cairo." "I'm gonna catch me one of them big boats... and gonna ship out as a cabin boy to South America." "And then I'm gonna start my own coffee plantation." "There's lots of money in coffee beans." "But me..." "I'm gonna stay in dry goods." " What's the matter, Jim?" " Slave hunters!" " Who's that yonder?" " It's just a raft, sir." " Any men on it?" " Just one and me." "Hush up, Jim." "Well, there's five niggers run off tonight up yonder above the head of the bend." "Your man white or black?" "He's white, sir." "I reckon we'll see for ourselves." "Catch this here line." "Pap and me is much obliged to ya." "I can tell ya, everybody scoots off when I want 'em to tow this blamed raft ashore." "Well, that's infernal mean." "Odd, too." "Say, boy, what's the matter with your father?" "Well... it ain't anything much." "Boy, you're hidin' somethin'." "What is the matter with your pap?" "Well..." "Please, if you'll just tow us to shore." "You won't have to get near the raft." "Your pap's got the smallpox!" "And you know it precious well!" "Drop that line, boy!" "Confound it!" "I just bet the wind's done blowed it to us!" "Why didn't you come out and say so?" "!" "You wanna spread it all over?" "!" "Well, everybody else I told run off and left us." "Poor devil." "We're downright sorry for ya." "But, well, hang it!" "We don't wanna get the smallpox, don't ya see?" "Let's get outta here." "Goodbye, boy!" "Good luck." "You see any runaway niggers, you get help and nab 'em!" "You can make some good money by it." "Thank you, sir!" "I won't let any runaway get by me if I can help it." "I ain't no damn abolutionist." "Huck..." "Huck, here I am." " Are they outta sight yet?" " Yeah." "I'm gonna roast in hell forever for all the lies I told for you." "You didn't have to get in the water." "Well, I didn't wanna take no chances." "You sure had them scared." "Well..." "We best spend the night on the shore." "Come on." "Get them off this boat." "We'll have none of that kind of thing around here." "Get them off the boat right now." " Take your hands off me!" " Get off my ship." "Stay off." "We'll have none of that..." "none of that riff-raff." "Take the scalawags off." " You'll hear from my law..." " Card sharks!" "River hustlers!" "First you fleece my passengers, but that ain't enough." "Then you start takin' my whole crew!" "Do you know, sir, to whom you are speaking?" "!" "Tell him, Bilgewater!" "I'll have you know, sir, that we are men of title." "The blood of kings flows through our veins." "Your rash, unfounded accusations can only be looked upon with contempt, sir!" "Throw out their luggage!" "Bring it out!" "Throw it overboard." "You go find my hatbox." "Hurry, you lackeys!" "Well, throw it, you idiot!" "That should be done with them." "Raise it up." "I hope that an undeserved fate will haunt you forever, sir!" "You are obviously not fit..." "I told you we shouldn't have pulled the Cincinnati double shuffle on the first night." "It wasn't our performance, dear boy." "It was their pitiful lack of imagination." "Well, what are we gonna do next?" "It's not "what are we gonna do," it is "whom are we going to do."" "Now, don't look now, but the next recipients of our estimable companionship are, at this very moment, coming to our rescue." "Ahoy!" "Ahoy there!" "Oh, alas!" "Oh, woe." "Well, cry, you idiot." "Well, why are you gawking?" "Mocking us in our hour of degradation." "Be gone with you!" "Be gone, I say." "Do you need any help?" "Help?" "What help can you give us when fate has fetched us so low, when we were once so high?" "Let the cruel world do its worst, but there's one thing we know." "There's a grave somewhere for us." "The world will always go on as it always has, and take everything from us." "Money, property, loved ones... everything!" "But they can't take that." "One day we'll lay our poor, broken hearts down in that grave." "The rest... is silence." "Well, what are you heaving your poor, broken hearts at us for?" "We're not blaming you." "It's the world that's brought us down." "Where was you brought down from?" "Oh, you wouldn't believe us." "The world never believes the secrets of our birth." "'Tis no matter." "Let it pass." "Let it pass." "The secrets of your birth?" "Wait a minute." "You have a sympathetic-looking face." "Perhaps you would believe us." "My great-grandmater on my pater's side" "Became a baroness" "Then great-grandpater died" "When later great-grandmater again became a bride" "She wed a duke, so the royal strain was doubled when she wed again their son" "My grand-pere became the rightful heir" "But lost his lofty title in a dubious game of chemin de fer" "What a sad demise for the true Dolphine" "My Daddy was Louie xvii" "Thus I, but for a tragic happenstance" "Am His Majesty, the King of France" "The King of France?" "You're looking at royalty" "Royalty" "Fouled and foiled, slightly soiled, but" "Royalty" "Born to reign" "All in vain" "Fate was cruel, we should be rulin'" "Royalty" "Tell him about yourself, Bilgey." " Well, I..." " Never mind." "The Duke of Bilgewater" "A hundred years gone by" "Braved the broad Atlantic to give the colonies a try" "My grandfather's life was hard and brief" "My mother sold matches and died of grief" "Thus here, but for a cruel, historic fluke" "Is Lord Bilgewater" "A full-fledged Duke" "You're looking at..." "Royalty" "Royalty" "Fouled and foiled" "Slightly soiled" "But royalty" "Born to reign" "All in vain" "Fate was cruel, we should be rulin'" "Royalty" "Well, can't we at least fetch you down to the next town?" "No, no." "We couldn't think of encroaching on your hospitality." "But since you insist, have your manservant tote our belongings aboard, and let's get outta here." "Come on, Jim." "What should I call you?" "Your Grace, My Lord, or Your Lordship?" "Well, we're traveling incognito, you understand." "You simply call me King." "Call him Bilgewater." "You may put that there, my good man." "You're looking at royalty" "Royalty" "Lost our throne, two rolling stones" "But royalty" "Unlike you, our blood is blue" "Fate was cruel, we should be rulin'" "Royalty" "Shove off." "Shove off." "You're lookin' at royalty" "You're lookin' at royalty" "Fouled and foiled, slightly soiled, but" "Royalty" "Worn and torn" "But" "To the manor born" "Fate was cruel, we should be rulin'" "Royalty" "Lower your eyes and bend your knees" "You jack-a-napes are gaping' at royalty" "I was up all night." "Think I'll take a few winks of sleep." "Tell me, Jim." "You're a runaway slave, aren't ya?" "Who?" "Me?" "No, sir." "I ain't no runaway." "I mean you no harm, Jim." "Just seems mighty strange for a young boy and a healthy black like yourself to be shifting' free and easy here on this raft heading' downriver." "Straight for Cairo... which, as any simple-minded fool knows, is exactly where a runaway slave would just naturally gravitate." "Well, uh..." "He ain't no runaway." "You see, King, my folks was livin' in Pike County, Missouri." "It's where I was born." "And they all died off except for me and Pap and my brother Ike and our freeborn manservant here, Jim." "That's right." "He's tellin' it right." "Oh, I know he is." "And he's doing a wonderful job." " Isn't he, though." " Yeah." "Continue..." "what'd you say your name was?" "Jackson." "George Jackson." "Well, we ran into a piece of bad luck a couple of nights ago." "A steamboat ran over the forward end of our raft." "We all fell overboard underneath the wheel." "Jim and me come up all right, but, well," "Pap was drunk, and, well, Ike was only four years old." "Lord rest their souls." "That was a really, very touching story, but..." "I've had a trying morning." "Think I'm gonna join my friend in the arms of Morpheus." "Move your feet, Bilgey." "Move your feet." "What?" "!" "I've had better accommodations than this." "You think he believed us?" "But did you believe him?" "I mean, about them being royalty and all?" "Well, not all of it." "Well, as long as he believes we believe that stretcher he told us," "I figure he'll go along with ours." "Besides, like Miss Watson used to say, them two just may be a blessing in disguise." "And once he gets you into his clutches, my friends, the demon rum will rot ya through and through." "Rot your body, rot your brain, rot your immortal soul." "Ooh, it was spellbinding, I tell ya." "I was the pet of the womenfolk..." "big and little." "'Cause we was makin' it mighty warm for those rummies." "We were takin' in a fortune." "Then somehow or other a little report got out that we was puttin' in time with the jug on the sly." " They run us out..." " Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet." "Then we... then we took to sellin' an article to take the tartar off the teeth." "And it does, too." "And generally the enamel along with it." "We... we got out of there just ahead of the lynch mob." "Enough, Bilgey." "They were a pack of ingrates." "Boy, put mine over there." "May I make a suggestion, gentlemen?" "If I was to make believe to be your slave, why, folks would never question two gentlemen of obvious qualities such as yourselves." "Why, you'd appear to be the owners of a valuable piece of property... namely, me." "And that way, we could all travel together safely." "Brilliant." "Brilliant!" "But... but it needs something." "Let me think." "I've got it!" "You two wanna make it safely to Cairo, right?" "Yes, sir." "It wouldn't hurt to have a little jingle in your pockets when you get there, would it?" "You are now members of the Royal Shakespeare Touring Company." "Good thinkin', King." "Bilgey, I want you to make me up some new posters and tickets..." "lots of tickets." ""For two nights only, David Garrick the younger," ""and Edmund Keene the elder." ""Direct from London in their celebrated performance of The Royal Nonesuch."" "The play's the thing, boys." "Our dear citizens of this fair, charming, quaint city of Clairville..." "Trusting you all know your own names let me tell you mine." "I am David Garrick the younger of the Royal Haymarket Theatre," "White Chapel, Piccadilly, Pudding Lane..." "London!" "Now star and managing director of the Royal Shakespeare Touring Company." "And now, let me introduce you to the members of my illustrious troupe." "First of all, Mr. Edmund Keene the elder of the Drury Lane Theatre, London, right there." "Yes." "And now, my young ward Percival Hepplewhite, III, known throughout Europe as the boy genius of Stratford-Upon-Avon right there." "Thank you for your passionate response, sir." "And now, last but not least, perhaps the world's most brilliant interpreter of Shakespeare's immortal character Caliban, the former king of Huggamugga, King Goonawonga right there." "Assisted by the strength of my entire troupe, with new appointments, new scenery, new props, for just two nights only because of imperative European engagements we will... we will present the thrilling, spine-tingling, inspiring epic" "from the pen of the Bard himself..." "The Royal Nonesuch." "Unfortunately, however, there..." "Unfortunately, however, women and children will not be admitted to either performance." "Under any circumstances." "There must be at least a hundred people in there." "More like 163, including standing room." " Can hardly wait to see the show myself." " Me, neither." "Full house." "Let's go." "You two run along down to the raft with Bilgewater." "Don't we get to see the show?" "His Majesty don't like nobody watching from the wings." "Come on." "Get out." "Why, Tom, you're too young." "Who let you in?" "I let myself in." " Well, let yourself out." " Hey!" "Put me down!" "Bless you." "Gentlemen and gentlemen..." "The Royal Shakespeare Touring Company is proud to present tonight, for your pleasure the least known, yet far greatest work of the Bard of Avon." ""The Royal Nonesuch." Also known as "The Tragedy of the..." " of the King's Camel Leopard."" "Prepare for rolling heads" "Blood that sheds" "Right before your eyes" "Revenge and hate" "The knell of fate" "When everybody dies" "And, ooh, there's so much more" "There's lust and gore" "Laughter" "Tears" "And sin" "The Royal Nonesuch has come to town" "So let the play be..." "Before we raise the curtain on this epic tour de force" "Certain pertinent facts I must convey" "This manuscript lay static" "In a corner of Shakespeare's attic" "Till I by chance discovered it" "Dramatically uncovered it" "It was a cold and rainy night." "I happened to be a house guest at the ancestral cottage of my dear friend Shakespeare." "Alas, sleep would not come, so I spent the night scuffling about amidst the boxes and the barrels in the loft, when..." "Moment of moments..." "I stumbled upon this discarded bundle of parchment." "Breathlessly I blew away 247 years of dust." "And lo..." "there it was." "In the Bard's own hand." "The Royal Nonesuch, a new tragedy by William Shakespeare!" "Oh, ho, there's so much more" "Than love and war in this great Shakes-perience" "The Royal Nonesuch has come to town" "The Royal Nonesuch of much renown" "The Royal Nonesuch won't let you down" "So let" "The play" "Commence" "Come on, come on." "Can't we at least go back and take a look?" "He'd never know." "That was a triumph." "Let's get out of here." " Is the show over already?" " Always leave them wanting more." "Get that boy outta here." "What the devil you doin', boy?" "We threw you out once." "Belay there." "Let the boy speak." "I just come to tell you there'll be no show tonight." "They all run off." "I saw 'em." "The kid's right!" "They're gone!" "There ain't nothin' back there." "No scenery, no costumes... nothin' but the piano player." "I sure don't like this Royal Nonesuch business." "Stealin' poor people's money..." "that's... that's downright dishonest." "Well, you're stealin' yourself from Miss Watson, ain't ya?" "Now, stealing' is stealing', Jim." "Well, there is stealin' and there is stealing'." "But this here... is stealing'." "But the King was right about one thing." "Nobody's lookin' at ya like you're a runaway slave no more, now are they?" "And, besides, we're only a couple of days from Cairo." "Cairo." " Why, that's..." " Money in the bank." "Here." "You hammer up the rest of the posters." "I'm gonna do a little advance promoting'." "God rest ye merry gentlemen." "Good tidings to you all." "One and all, good tidings." "Hip, hip, hip, hip, and all that rot." "Whiskey." "Your best." "You must be the Reverend Wilks all the way from England." "My condolences." "From England, rather, but Reverend Wilks..." "Condolences?" "Condolences for what?" "Your brother just died." "That is, if you was the Reverend Mr. Wilks, your brother just died... leaving all that money." "Money?" "Come here!" "Forget the signs, forget the posters." "What?" "Gentlemen, we are about to raise the curtain on the most lucrative engagement of our careers." "You might even say we were born for these roles." "But we are not gonna perform here in Barrytown." "The stage awaits a few miles downriver in Jackson's Landing." "Come on!" "Now remember, Bilgey, you're deaf and dumb." "Yes, yes, King." "Fine." "And you?" "Rather, I say." "Very good." "And that's all you say, so remember it." "Huckleberry, I have a bad feeling about it." "This time, they've gone too far." "Don't worry." "Everything's gonna be just fine." "If anybody comes nosing' around here, just get in there and moan and groan." "Let me hear you." "Jim, this is the last of it." "Soon as I shuck these two," "I'm gonna cut right back to here, and we'll be in Cairo tomorrow." "All right, Hucky." "I'll be waitin' for you." "Now, you be careful, you hear?" "I won't be long, Jim." "I promise." "Percival, let's get going." "Goodbye, Jim." "Come along, dear boy." "Quick, let's get going." "Jackson's Landing is just around the point." "You row, Bilgey." "Farewell, fellow voyagers." "Parting is such sweet sorrow, but I know that the good Lord, in His kindness, will guide your ship up the river of life." "Bless you, bless you, bless you, ble..." "Bless you, bless you." "Bless you." "Bless you." "My poor, afflicted brother here is expressing our profound gratitude for our safe arrival in this haven of the New World after our tedious pilgrimage all the way from England." "Sheffield, England." "Amen." "Bless you." "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "Hello." "Hello." "Nice day." "Bless you." "Bless you." "Can any of you kind people tell us where Mr. Peter Wilks lives?" "I'm sorry, sir." "The best we can do is tell you where he used to live as of yesterday mornin'." "You mean... our poor brother..." "is gone?" "If only we had a chance to see him." "It's too much to bear!" " Reverend Wilks?" " Yes." "Alas, it is I." "My name is Lot Hovey." "Deacon Lot Hovey." "How often has Peter written of you and your dear wife..." " Margaret." " Margaret." "Of course." "Dear Margaret." "And what of my nieces?" "Poor darlings." "What of them?" "I'd be honored to take you to them." "Lead on, Deacon." "Lead on." "Your uncles are here!" "Mary Jane, Susan..." "we are here." "Poor child." "There, there, there." "Uncle's here." "Don't cry." "Yes, come to Uncle, dear." "That's it." "Oh, that's it." "Yes, Uncle's here." "Don't cry." "Come, come, honey." "Don't cry." "Yes, well, Brother William was just singing a fitting hymn for this solemn..." "Oh, Reverend Wilks, could we hear it?" " Yes, out of respect." " We wanna sing along." " Please." " Please." "Well... well, all right." "All right... gentle souls." "Into His hands, Into His hands" "Some day we must come" "Some day we must come" "Into His wonderful, wonderful hands, Into His heavenly, heavenly hands" "Into His wonderful, heavenly hands" "Some day we must come" "Some day we must come" "Into His hands" "Into His hands" "Into His hands" "Some day we must come" "Into His wonderful, wonderful hands" "Into His heavenly, heavenly hands" "Into His wonderful, heavenly hands" "Into His heavenly, heavenly hands" "Into His hands, Into His hands" "Into His wonderful, heavenly hands" "Some day we must come" "Some day we must come" "Some day" "We must" "Come" "Amen" "So, when we received your dear father's letter, we departed our parish haste post haste, taking our young ward Percival here with us." "He's been such an aid and comfort to us on our journey." "Poor dear." "The only time I get to hear him is when he's eating." "But our main concern is for you, dear children." " Left all alone..." " Oh!" "Uncle Harvey?" "We almost forgot." "There's a letter." "Father's last wishes." "He wanted us to give it to you immediately upon your arrival, but with..." "Completely understandable, my dear." "Go fetch the letter." "Your dear father's last wishes must be carried out forthwith down here." "Because he would not be happy up there knowing that things weren't going right down here." "You're very considerate, Uncle Harvey." "My calling." "Besides, your dear uncles want to unburden you of all concerns." "God rest his generous soul." "I'm explaining to Brother William that your dear father has willed this house and its furnishings plus $3,000 in gold to you, his dear daughters." "And he has willed the tannery, worth $7,000 and another $3,000 in gold to poor, afflicted William and me." "The gold is hidden in two sacks under some bricks in the cellar." "William... has just expressed a sentiment with which I heartily concur." "We cannot accept one shilling of your dear father's beneficence." " It's for you." " No, it's all for you." "No, no, no, no." "It's all yours, dear nieces." "But we will go down to the cellar and fetch it to protect it for you." "So that he may rest cold but joyful." "Those dear, good souls." "Rather." "Be careful." "Ow!" "Careful, you idiot!" "You look over there." "I'll look down here." "Ow!" " These here bricks are loose." " Get 'em." "Golly dang." "This sure beats... this sure beats "Royal Nonesuch" all howdy, don't it?" "Be aware that it's only the first act." "We're gotta play this one out till the final curtain." "This house alone will bring 10,000, not countin' furnishings... and the tannery." " Yeah." " And this $6,000." "Where's the other one?" "Here, move this." "There it is." "By the time this play is over, you and I will be gentlemen of leisure." "It's providence, Bilgey." "Providence." "Being relatives to rich dead men and representatives of foreign heirs." "There's the line for us." "No more small time bilking' hayseeds." "We've found our calling." "By this time tomorrow, we will be rich." "Far away from here." "Who is it?" "It's Mary Jane, Percy." "Oh." "Come in." "I thought you might need this come morning." "It gets awfully cold." "Rather." "You know, Percy, there's something about you that seems mighty strange." "But there is something about you I like." "Guess I've always wanted a little brother to fuss over." "I'm very happy to have you here, Percy." "I do hope we can all stay together for a long, long time." "Good night, Percy." "Good night, Mary Jane." "Bless you." "Mary Jane." "Susan." "How could I ever hurt them?" "Jim's waitin' down on the river." "Gotta get back to him." "What's right?" "What's wrong?" "Try to fight or go along?" "How can you win" "When every day you make the Devil grin?" "Which way is real?" "What you're taught or what you feel?" "What's false?" "What's fine?" "And who's decidin' the dividing' line?" "I don't wanna hurt nobody" "I don't wanna die and burn" "But with the Devil always doggin' at my heels" "How the devil am I gonna learn?" "What's right?" "What's wrong?" "Try to fight or go along?" "How can you tell" "The road to heaven from the one to hell?" "Some folks live wise" "Other folks are livin' lies" "Can't find my way" "But I'll keep tryin'" "Till my dyin' day" "We've been robbed!" "Vandalized!" "Pillaged!" "Plundered!" "We've been robbed!" "We've been robbed!" "Vandalized!" "Pillaged!" "Plundered!" "Give me a hand, Bilgey." "Plundered!" "We've been robbed!" "We've been robbed!" "You've been robbed!" "You've been robbed!" "What happened?" "That river rat... that little swindler." "He took the gold." "The sheriff." "We have got to tell the sheriff." "But I just can't believe it..." "Well, you'd better believe it, my dear." "That scalawag has shifty eyes." "Come on, Bil..." "uh, Brother William." "We have to go roust the sheriff and rescue our nieces' gold." "Also, we have to arrange post haste for the auction." "We should've got out of town last night, like I said." "Now we got nothin'." "First of all, shut your mouth, Bilgey." "Don't you know the biggest half of this loaf is yet to be plucked?" "Sheriff?" "We have a matter of utmost importance to discuss with you." " Are they gone?" " Percy!" "Are they gone?" "They went for the sheriff." "I can't live a lie no more." "I just gotta tell you the truth." "First off, I ain't English." "My real name's George Jackson, and I'm on my way to visit my uncle Abner Moore." "What are you doing with our uncles?" "Them two ain't your uncles." "They's just a couple of river sharks comin' to skin you for everything you got." "I didn't know just what they was into until I was too deep in it." "So I took your gold away from them last night." "I hid it in the safest place I could." "Well, where'd you hide it?" "I can't tell you right now, Miss Susan." "Not till them two's exposed." "'Cause they'd find a way to get it out of ya if you knew." "Sister, we can trust George here." "There's somethin' about him I like." "Friends, all." "Our dear brother Peter... your good friend and neighbor who lays yonder... has done generous well with his poor daughters that he's left behind in this vale of tears." "But these poor, orphan children are twice blighted." "A sneak thief has come in the night and robbed them of all of their cash money, so that all that they have left is what we are to auction here today so that their Uncle William and myself can take them back to England" "with a dowry fitting for them to marry well." "Now, what you see before you is a hand-wrought, hand-chased, hallmarked, sterling silver, genuine antique silver tea service with tray." "Do I hear $50?" "How well I remember this gorgeous, six-piece tea service." "When our dear mother used to serve finger sandwiches and tea on the lawn of our estate in Sheffield, England." "No doubt she and Peter are gazing down on us at this very moment, hoping that one of you dear friends and generous neighbors will bring this priceless heirloom into your home." " $50!" " $50!" "Did you hear that, brother?" "$50!" " Do I hear 60?" " I'll bet 60." "$60, that gentleman right there." " 75." " 75!" "Did you hear that, brother?" "75... that's beautiful. 75." " $100." " $100 right there." " 150." " 150." "That's gorgeous." "Thank you." "150 going once, 150 going twice." " 160." " 160." "Bless you, sir." "Thank you very much." " 165." " What did you say, sir?" "165." "165, the man with the beard." "Thank you very much. 165." " 175." " 175!" "Thank you, sir." " 175 going once." " $200." "Hallelujah!" "Did you hear that, Mother and Brother?" "$200." "$200 going once, $200 going twice..." "Damn!" "Damn!" "Somebody give me a hotfoot." "I thought he was supposed to be deaf and dumb." "The Lord has spoken!" "He has His ways!" "Let us not question them because they are beyond the comprehension of us poor mortals." "Let us pray!" "Dear Lord, what are you trying to tell us?" "What are you trying to say through our poor brother's afflicted mouth?" "What heavenly thi..." "Uh-oh." "Could anyone be so kind as to direct us to the Peter Wilks residence?" "Uncle Harvey!" "Uncle William!" "I'm gonna get the sheriff!" "Thank God you're really here!" "Get them!" "Get them!" "All right, you two frauds." "You're goin' to jail!" "Jail's too good for 'em." "They hoodwinked the whole town." " They oughtta be lynched!" " Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Let's get 'em!" "The idea of you lynching anybody." "Just 'cause you're brave enough to tar and feather some poor outcast women that come along here." "Why, a man's safe in the hands of 10,000 of your kind." "I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North." "So I know the average all around." "The average man's a coward!" "Your mistake is that you didn't bring a man with you to lead you." "You didn't go home and fetch your mask to cover your faces." "Half a man like him there yells, "Lynch him!" "Lynch him!"" "Well, I'll tell ya what you're gonna do." "You're gonna droop your tails and get along home and crawl in a hole." "Any real lynching's gonna be done around here, come back with your masks on!" "Go on, get outta here, and take that half a man there with ya." "King, that really was a great speech." "Not bad." "It was first delivered by a Colonel Sherburne down in Arkansas when they were about to lynch him." "Figured it might come in handy one of these days." "After you, sir." "Well, I knew it weren't the most reverent place to hide a couple of sacks of gold, but there weren't nowhere else, so I hid it in the coffin last night just before you came down to pray." "Well, I hope you explain to your two uncles that I didn't mean to be irreverent." "Well, I gotta go now." "See, somebody's waitin' for me." "My uncle, you know?" "Good-bye, George Jackson." "And if I don't ever see you again, I shan't forget you." "And I'll think about you many and many a time." "And I'll pray for you, too." "Oh, Jim." "Crocker says the barge'll be here in less than two hours." "Ain't soon enough for me." "Don't like this many on our hands." "I never can tell." "Maybe some of them damn John Brown abolitionists is fixin' to ambush 'em on the river." "Happened two months ago near Orangeville." "Got away with 17." " Turned them all loose in Cairo." " That John Brown's an idiot." "Who's gonna feed them and take care of them?" "Set them free." "It's a sin!" "Alls I know, John Brown says owning niggers is a sin." "Yeah, but that only proves he's an idiot." "How many we got this time?" "Twenty-four, counting' the new batch." "Three females and 21 bucks." "All right, let's get 'em ready." "Tie 'em up over here." "Move along now!" "Move along!" "No." "Get away." "No." "She's mighty early, but it looks like the barge is comin'." "Could be." "The river's high, and the current's mighty strong." "Yeah, that's her, all right." "Better get 'em ready." " When did he go?" " Just now." "Nigger Jim, d'you hear me?" "You all come back before I kill every damn nigger in this stockade." "Stand up!" "I know you're in there somewhere." "Jim, no." "All right." "Just you listen to this!" "Other slaves in there are bought and paid for." "He'll never do it." "Now, that's one!" "Now either give yourself up, or I finish off the rest." "Jim, no." "No." "It's a trick." "I swear to ya." "It's a trick, Jim." "Come on." "He ain't gonna fall for that, and you know it." "Once Crocker gets here, we'll put the dogs on him." "Then he won't stand a chance in hell." "Let's get 'em ready for the barge." "Huck..." "Huck, I can't run no more." "I got..." "I gotta rest." "I'm all cramped up from bein' tied." "Jim..." "Your blood's red..." "the same as mine." "You didn't know that before, Huck?" "It was wrong of me..." "I mean, it's wrong for you... for me to let you be out here with me like..." "like this." "Runnin' the risk of bein' caught like a... a damned "abolutionist."" "Huck, I've been lyin' to you all along." "You been lyin'?" "You don't need to run from your pap no more." "You don't need to run from anything'." "You know that... that dead body I found in that wrecked houseboat?" "That was your pap." "I..." "I wanted to tell ya." "I wanted to tell ya right there, but..." "I was..." "I was scared." "I..." "I was scared you'd run off and leave me 'cause you didn't need me no more and... well, I needed you." "You did the right thing back there." "I might've run off on ya." "I probably would've." "But now..." "I don't give a damn what the whole world says." "'Cause if I'm doin' wrong well... well, I hope I roast in hell forever!" " I can't..." " Gimme your shirt, Jim!" " What?" " Just gimme your shirt!" "Now, the raft's on the river, a quarter of a mile or so in the cove." "Now, Cairo's just five miles on the other side." "Ain't you comin' with me?" "When you get there, have somebody write a letter to Judge Thatcher back to Hannibal for ya." "Say where you are, 'cause I'm gonna have the Judge send you your wife and your little girl." "Alls it takes is money, and I still got all of mine saved with the Judge." "I know I can spring enough loose for that." "No, Huck." "That's..." "that's your money." "I can't..." "But, Jim, you're gonna open up a dry-good store in Cairo, ain't ya?" "We'll need them to help us run the business." "We're partners." "Right?" "Partners." "Remember?" "Right." "God bless you." "If there is a God up there..." "and I ain't sure if there is or there ain't... he'll hear me prayin' for ya, Jim." "Life is a wink of time" "Heaven's a lonely climb" "The road is so dark and long" "Paved with all kinds of wrong" "But freedom" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "Sun warms the earth below" "Earth drinks the winter snow" "Seas feed the winds that blow" "And rain makes the grain to grow" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Freedom" "Man's got to make his own" "Man's got to make" "His" "Huck, oh, ho, Huckleberry" "Huck, say, hey" "Hey, Huckleberry, Huck" "Oh, oh, Huckleberry" "Say, Huckleberry Finn" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Huckleberry, where you been?" "Rather." "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois" "Gotta get away to Cairo-airo" "Gotta get away to Cairo-airo" "Down the river a thousand miles" "That's where we're gonna live in style" "In Cairo-airo, Illinois" "In Cairo-airo, Illinois" "Cross that river a thousand miles" "That's where we're gonna live in style" "In Cairo-airo, Illinois" "In Cairo-airo" "Illinois"