“ there ain’t no better way to put in time when you are lonesome ”
 Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). copy citation

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Author Mark Twain
Source Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Topic time ai
Date 1884
Language English
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“but by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain’t no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can’t stay so, you soon get over it. And so for three days and nights. No difference—just the same thing. But the next day I went exploring around down through the island. I was boss of it; it all belonged to me, so to say, and I wanted to know all about it;” source