Mark Twain

Name: Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11
Author: Mark Twain

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“Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11”, published in 1894, is a work by Mark Twain. It explores elements such as sand, caravan and Jim.

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ It was a rattler, that caravan, and a most bully sight to look at, next morning, when the sun come a-streaming across the Desert and flung the long shadders of the camels on the gold sand like a thousand granddaddy-longlegses marching in procession. We never went very near it, because we knowed better, now, than to act like that and scare people's camels and break up their caravans. It was the gayest outfit you ever see for rich clothes and nobby style. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ Then the storm thinned, and we see that monstrous wall go a-sailing off across the Desert, awful to look at, I tell you. We dug ourselves out and looked down, and where the caravan was before there wasn't anything but just the sand ocean now, and all still and quiet. All them people and camels was smothered and dead and buried—buried under ten foot of sand, we reckoned—and Tom allowed it might be years before the wind uncovered them, and all that time their friends wouldn't ever know what become of that caravan. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ But as soon as we come to know them good, and like them very much, it warn't Mister, nor Judge, nor nothing, any more, but only Elleck, and Addy, and Jake, and Hattie, and Jerry, and Buck, and so on.
And, you know, the more you join in with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. Now we warn't cold and indifferent, the way most travelers is—we was right down friendly and sociable, and took a chance in everything that was going, and the caravan could depend on us to be on hand every time, it didn't make no difference what it was. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ I couldn't make nothing out of that, neither could Jim. I says:
"What is our duty, Tom? Because if we can't git around it, why can't we just do it? People often has to."
But he says:
"Oh, it ain't that kind of duty. The kind I mean is a tax. Whenever you strike a frontier—that's the border of a country, you know—you find a Custom house there, and the Gov'ment officers comes and rummages amongst your things and charges a big tax, which they call a duty because it's their duty to bust you if they can; and if you don't pay the duty they'll hog your sand. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ Jim allowed he was going to live as good a life as he could, so he could see them again in a better world; and Tom kept still and didn't tell him they was only Mohammedans—it warn't no use to disappoint him, he was feeling bad enough just as it was.
When we woke up next morning we was feeling a little cheerfuller, and had had a most powerful good sleep, because sand is the comfortablest bed there is, and I don't see why people that can afford it don't have it more. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ The longer we traveled with them, and the more we got used to their ways, the better and better we liked them and the gladder and gladder we was that we run across them. We had come to know some of them so well that we called them by name when we was talking about them, and soon got so familiar and sociable that we even dropped the Miss and the Mister and just used their plain names without any handle, and it did not seem unpolite, but just the right thing. ”

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Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad — Chapter 11 (1894)

“ All we got to do is to put it up in vials and float around all over the United States and peddle them out at ten cents apiece. We've got all of ten thousand dollars' worth of sand in this boat."
Me and Jim went all to pieces with joy, and begun to shout whoopjamboreehoo, and Tom says:
"And we can keep on coming back and fetching sand, and coming back and fetching more sand, and just keep it a-going till we've carted this whole Desert over there and sold it out; and there ain't ever going to be any opposition, either, because we'll take out a patent." ”

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