“ a body that don’t get started right when he’s little ain’t got no show—when the pinch comes there ain’t nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat. ”
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Source | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Topic | work body |
| Date | 1884 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm |
Context
““I won’t let no runaway niggers get by me if I can help it.”
They went off and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don’t get started right when he’s little ain’t got no show—when the pinch comes there ain’t nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad—I’d feel just the same way I do now.”
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