Nascent Drama

[The Dork Lord]

"Why, Huck! En good lan'! ain' dat Misto Tom?"

I just knowed how it would be; I just expected it. I didn't know nothing to do; and if I had I couldn't a done it, because that nigger busted in and says:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Why, de gracious sakes! do he know you genlmen?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

We could see pretty well now. Tom he looked at the nigger, steady and kind of wondering, and says:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Does who know us?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Why, dis-yer runaway nigger."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"I don't reckon he does; but what put that into your head?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"What put it dar? Didn' he jis' dis minute sing out like he knowed you?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

Tom says, in a puzzled-up kind of way:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Well, that's mighty curious. Who sung out? When did he sing out? What did he sing out?" And turns to me, perfectly ca'm, and says, "Did you hear anybody sing out?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

Of course there warn't nothing to be said but the one thing; so I says:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"No; I ain't heard nobody say nothing."

 

[The Dork Lord]

Then he turns to Jim, and looks him over like he never see him before, and says:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Did you sing out?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"No, sah," says Jim; "I hain't said nothing, sah."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Not a word?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"No, sah, I hain't said a word."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Did you ever see us before?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"No, sah; not as I knows on."

 

[The Dork Lord]

So Tom turns to the nigger, which was looking wild and distressed, and says, kind of severe:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"What do you reckon's the matter with you, anyway? What made you think somebody sung out?"