Mark Twain

Name: Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10
Author: Mark Twain

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“Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10”, published in 1894, is a work by Mark Twain. It explores elements such as dervish, camel and salve.

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ I reckon there's lots of people like that dervish. They swindle right and left, but they always make the other person seem to swindle himself. They keep inside of the letter of the law all the time, and there ain't no way to git hold of them. They don't put the salve on—oh, no, that would be sin—but they know how to fool you into putting it on, then it's you that blinds yourself. I reckon the dervish and the camel driver was just a pair—a fine, smart, brainy rascal, and a dull, coarse, ignorant one, but both of them rascals, just the same. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ Jim begun to snore—soft and blubbery at first, then a long rasp, then a stronger one, then a half-a-dozen horrible ones like the last water sucking down the plug-hole of a bath-tub, then the same with more power to it, and some big coughs and snorts flung in, the way a cow does that is choking to death; and when the person has got to that point he is at his level best, and can wake up a man that is in the next block with a dipperful of loddanum in him, but can't wake himself up although all that awful noise of his'n ain't but three inches from his own ears. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ So they shook hands on the bargain, and the dervish got out his box and rubbed the salve on the driver's right eye, and the hill opened and he went in, and there, sure enough, was piles and piles of gold and jewels sparkling like all the stars in heaven had fell down.
So him and the dervish laid into it, and they loaded every camel till he couldn't carry no more; then they said good-bye, and each of them started off with his fifty. But pretty soon the camel driver come a-running and overtook the dervish and says:
"You ain't in society, you know, and you don't really need all you've got. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ But Jim was asleep. Tom looked kind of ashamed, because, you know, a person always feels bad when he is talking uncommon fine and thinks the other person is admiring, and that other person goes to sleep that way. Of course he oughtn't to go to sleep, because it's shabby; but the finer a person talks the certainer it is to make you sleep, and so, when you come to look at it, it ain't nobody's fault in particular—both of them's to blame. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ Chapter 10 Tom said it happened like this.
A dervish was stumping it along through the Desert on foot one blazing hot day, and he had come a thousand miles and was pretty poor and hungry, and ornery and tired, and along about where we are now he run across a camel driver with a hundred camels, and asked him for some a'ms. But the camel driver he asked to be excused. The dervish said:
"Don't you own these camels?"
"Yes, they're mine."
"Are you in debt?"
"Who—me? No."
"Well, a man that owns a hundred camels, and ain't in debt, is rich, and not only rich, but very rich. Ain't it so?" ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ Yes, because he knowed the man's character. It was just the kind of a man he was hunting for—a man that never believes in anybody's word or anybody's honorableness, because he ain't got none of his own. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ But, on the other hand, Uncle Abner said that the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ And that is the curiosest thing in the world, seems to me. But you rake a match to light the candle, and that little bit of a noise will fetch him. I wish I knowed what was the reason of that, but there don't seem to be no way to find out. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 10 (1894)

“ He says they've got it in New York, and they put it on country people's eyes and show them all the railroads in the world, and they go in and get them, and then when they rub the salve on the other eye the other man bids them goodbye and goes off with their railroads. ”

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