Mark Twain

“ I was up stairs in a second, and down the lightning-rod in another one, and shinning through the dark for the lean-to. I couldn't hardly get my words out, I was so anxious; but I told Tom as quick as I could, we must jump for it, now, and not a minute to lose the house full of men, yonder, with guns! His eyes just blazed; and he says:
"No!—is that so? Ain't it bully! Why, Huck, if it was to do over again, I bet I could fetch two hundred! If we could put it off till——"
"Hurry! hurry!" I says. "Where's Jim?"
"Right at your elbow; if you reach out your arm you can touch him. ”

“ I most dropped; and a streak of butter come a trickling down my forehead, and Aunt Sally she see it, and turns white as a sheet, and says:
"For the land's sake what is the matter with the child!—he's got the brain fever as shore as you're born, and they're oozing out!" ”

“ I did wish Aunt Sally would come, and get done with me, and lick me, if she wanted to, and let me get away and tell Tom how we'd overdone this thing, and what a thundering hornet's nest we'd got ourselves into, so we could stop fooling around, straight off, and clear out with Jim before these rips got out of patience and come for us.
EVERY ONE HAD A GUN. At last she come, and begun to ask me questions, but I couldn't answer them straight, I didn't know which end of me was up ”