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The news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run, fromemendation every which wayemendation, some of them putting on their coatsemendation as they comeexplanatory note. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was like a soldier-marchemendation. The windows and door-yardshistorical collation was full; and every minute somebody would say, over a fence:

“Is it them?

And somebody trotting along with the gang would answer back and say:historical collation

“You bet it is.”

When we got to the house, the street in front of it was packed, and the three girls was standing in the door. Mary Jane was red-headedemendation, but that don’t make no difference, she was most awful beautiful, and her face and her eyes was all lit up like glory, she was so glad her uncles was come. The king he spread his arms, and Mary Jane she jumped for them, and thealteration in the MS hare-lipemendation jumped for the duke, and there they had it! Everybody,historical collation most, leastways women, cried for joy to see them meetemendation at lasttextual note and have such good times.alteration in the MS emendation

Then the kingemendation he hunched the duke, private—I see him do it—and then he looked around and see the coffin, over in the corner on two chairs; so then, him and the duke, with a hand across each other’s shoulder, and t’otheremendation hand to their eyes, walked slow and solemn over there, everybody dropping back to give them room, and all the talk and noise stopping, people saying “Sh!” andalteration in the MS all the men taking their hats off and drooping their heads, so you could a heardhistorical collation [begin page 212] a pin fall. And when they got there, they bent over and looked in the coffin,alteration in the MS and took one sight, and then they bust out a cryinghistorical collation so you could a heardhistorical collation them to Orleans, most; and then they put their arms around each other’s necks, and hung their chins over each other’s shoulders; and then for three minutes, or maybehistorical collation four, I never see two men leak the way they doneemendation. And mind you, everybody was doing the same; and the place was that damp I never see anything like it. Then one of them got on one side of the coffin, and t’other on t’otheremendation side, and they kneeledemendation down and rested their foreheads on the coffin, and let on to pray,historical collation all to their selveshistorical collation. Well, when it come to that, it worked the crowd like you never see anything like it, and soemendation everybody broke down andemendation went to sobbing right out loud—the poor girls, too; and every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up towardshistorical collation the skyemendation, with the tears running down, and thenalteration in the MS busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next womanalteration in the MS a show. I never see anything so disgusting.historical collation

leaking.

Well, by and byhistorical collation the king he getsemendation up and comesemendation forward a little, [begin page 213] and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseasedemendation alive, after the longemendation journey of four thousand mile,emendation but it’shistorical collation a trial that’s sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sympathy and these holy tears,emendation and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother’s heart, because out of their mouths they can’t, words being too weak and cold,emendation and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sickening; and then he blubbers out a pious goody-goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to crying fit to bust.emendation

And the minute the words was out of his mouth somebody overalteration in the MS in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joinedemendation in with all their mightemendation, and it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out. Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwashemendation explanatory note, I never see it freshen up thingsemendation so,historical collation and sound so honest andemendation bully.alteration in the MS

Then the king begins to work his jaw again, and says how him and his niecesalteration in the MS emendation would be glad if a few of the main principalemendation friends of the family would take supper here withalteration in the MS themhistorical collation this evening,historical collation and help setemendation up with the ashes of the diseasedexplanatory note; and says ifemendation hisemendation poor brother laying yonder could speak, he knowsalteration in the MS emendation who he would name,emendation for they was names that was very dear to him, and mentioned often in his letters; and soemendation heemendation will name the same, to-withistorical collation, as follows, vizz:historical collation Rev. Mr. Hobson, and deaconhistorical collation Lot Hovey, and Mr.alteration in the MS Ben Rucker, and Abner Shackleford, and Levi Bell, and Dr.emendation Robinson, and their wives, and the widow Bartley.emendation

Rev.alteration in the MS Hobson and Dr. Robinson was down to the end of the town, a-huntingemendation together;alteration in the MS that is, I mean the doctor was shipping a sick man to t’otheremendation world, and the preacher was pintinghistorical collation him right. Lawyer Bell was awayalteration in the MS up to Louisville on someemendation business. But the rest was on hand, and so they all come and shook hands with the king and thanked him and talked to him; and then they shook hands with the duke, and didn’t say nothing,historical collation but just kept a-smiling and bobbingemendation their heads like a passel of sapheadsalteration in the MS whilst he made all sorts of signs with his handshistorical collation and saidhistorical collation “Goo-goo—goo-goo-gooalteration in the MS,” all the time, like a baby that can’t talk.

So the king he blatted along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dogemendation in town,historical collation by hisemendation name, and mentioned all [begin page 214] sorts of little things that happenedemendation one time or anotheremendation in the town, or to George’s family, or to Peteralteration in the MS; and he always let on that Peter wrote him the things, but that was a lie, hehistorical collation got every blessed one of them out ofemendation that young flathead that we canoed up to the steamboatemendation.

Then Mary Jane she fetched the letter her uncleemendation textual note left behind, and the king he read it out loud and cried over it. It give the dwelling househistorical collation and three thousand dollars, gold, to the girls; and it give the tanyardalteration in the MS,historical collation (which was doing a good business,)historical collation along with some otheralteration in the MS houses and land (worth about sevenalteration in the MS thousand,)historical collation and three thousandalteration in the MS dollars in gold,historical collation to Harvey and William, and told where the six thousand cashalteration in the MS was hid,historical collation down cellar. So these two frauds said they’demendation go and fetch it up, and have everything square and aboveboard;historical collation and told me to come with a candle. We shut the cellar door behindemendation us, and when they found the bag they spiltemendation it out on the floor, and it was a lovely sight, all them yaller-boysemendation. My, the way the king’s eyes did shine! He slaps the duke on the shoulder, and says:

“Ohistorical collation, this ain’t bullyhistorical collation nor noth’n! O,historical collation no, I reckonemendation not! Why, Biljy, it beats the Nonesuch—emendation don’t it!”

The duke allowed it did. They pawed the yaller-boysemendation, and sifted them through their fingers and let them jingle downemendation on the floor; and the king says:

“It ain’t no use talkin’:historical collation bein’alteration in the MS brothers to a rich dead man, and representatives of furrinemendation heirs that’s got left, is the line for you and me, Bilge. Thish-yer comes of trust’n to Providence. It’s the best way, in the long run. I’ve tried ’em all, and ther’emendation ain’t no better way.historical collation

Most everybodyemendation would a beenhistorical collation satisfied with the pile, and took it on trust; but no, they must count it. So they countsemendation it, and it comesemendation out four hundred and fifteenalteration in the MS dollars short. Says the king:

Dern him,historical collation I wonder what he done with that four hunderdemendation and fifteen dollars?”

They worried over that,historical collation a whilehistorical collation, and ransacked all around for it. Then the duke says:

“Well, he was a pretty sick man, and likely he made a mistake—I reckon that’s the way of it. The best way’s to let it go, and keep still about it. We can spare it.”

“Oh, shucks, yes, we can spare it. I don’t k’yer noth’n ’boutemendation that—it’s the count I’m thinkin’emendation about. We want to be awful square and open and aboveboardhistorical collation, here, you know. We want to lug thish-yertextual note emendation [begin page 215] money up stairs and count it before everybody—then ther’emendation ain’t noth’nemendation suspicious. But when the dead man says ther’s six thous’nemendation dollars, you know, we don’t want to—historical collation

“Hold on,” says the duke. “Less make up the deffisitemendation”—and he begun to haulalteration in the MS out yaller-boysemendation out of his pocket.

making up the “deffisit.

“It’s a most amaz’n’emendation good idea, duke—you have got a rattlin’ clever head on you,” says the king. “Blest if the old Nonesuchemendation ain’t a heppin’emendation us out agin”—and he begun to haul out yaller-jacketsemendation and stack them up.

It most busted them, but they made up the sixalteration in the MS thousandalteration in the MS clean and clear.

“Say,” says the duke, “Iemendation got another idea. Le’semendation go up stairshistorical collation and count this money, and then take and give it to the girls alteration in the MS.”

“Good land, duke, lemme hug you! It’s the most dazzlingalteration in the MS emendation idea ’at ever a man struck. You have cert’nly got the most astonishin’ head I ever see. Oemendation, this is the boss dodgeemendation, ther’emendation ain’t no mistake ’boutemendation it. [begin page 216] Let ’em fetch along their suspicions,historical collation now, if they want to—this ’llhistorical collation lay ’em out.”

When wealteration in the MS got up stairshistorical collation, everybody gethered around the table, and the king he counted it and stacked it up, three hundred dollars in a pile—twentyalteration in the MS elegantemendation little piles. Everybody looked hungry at it, and licked their chops. Then theyemendation raked itemendation into the bag again, andalteration in the MS I see the king begin to swell himself up for another speech. He says:

“Friends all, my poor brother that lays yonder,historical collation has done generous by them that’salteration in the MS left behind in the vale of sorrers. He has donealteration in the MS generous by these-yerhistorical collation pooralteration in the MS little lambs that he loved and sheltered, and that’s left fatherless and motherless. Yes, and we that knowed him, knows that he would a donehistorical collation more generous by ’em ifemendation he hadn’t ben afeard o’emendation woundin’alteration in the MS his dear William and me. Now, wouldn’t he? Ther’emendation ain’t no question ’boutemendation it,historical collation in my mind. Well, then—historical collationwhat kind o’emendation brothers would it be,historical collation that ’demendation stand in his way at sech a time? And what kind o’emendation uncles would it be that ’demendation rob—yes, rob—sech poor sweet lambs as these ’atemendation he loved so, at sech a time? Ifemendation I know William—and I think I do—he—well, I’ll jest askemendation him.” He turns around and begins to make a lot of signs to the duke with his hands; andemendation the duke he looksemendation at him stupid and leatherheadedhistorical collation a whilehistorical collation, then all of a sudden he seemsalteration in the MS emendation to catch his meaning, and jumps for the kinghistorical collation goo-gooing with all his might for joy, and hugs himalteration in the MS about fifteen times before he letsemendation up. Then the king says,historical collation “I knowed it; I reckon that alteration in the MS’llhistorical collation convince anybody the way he feels about it. Here, Mary Jane, Susan, Joanner, take the money—take it all. It’s the gift of him that lays yonder, cold but joyful.”

Mary Jane she went for him, Susan and the hare-lipemendation went for the duke, and then such another hugging and kissing I never see yet. And everybody crowded up,historical collation with the tears in their eyes, andalteration in the MS most shook the hands off of them frauds, saying all the time:

“You dear good souls!—how lovely!—how could you!”

Well, then, pretty soonalteration in the MS all hands got to talking about the diseased again, and how good he was, and what a loss he was, and all that; and before long a big iron-jawed man worked himself in there fromemendation outside, and stood a-listeninghistorical collation and looking, and not saying anything; and nobody saying anything to him,historical collation either, because thealteration in the MS king was talking and they was all busy listening. The king was saying—in the middle of something he’d started in on—emendation

[begin page 217] “—they bein’emendation partickler friends o’emendation thealteration in the MS diseased. That’s why they’re invited here this evenin’; but to-morrowemendation we want all to come—everybody; for he respected everybody, he liked everybody, and so it’s fitten that his funeral orgies sh’demendation be public.”

going for him.

And soalteration in the MS he went a-mooning on and on, liking to hear himself talk, and every little while he fetched in his funeral orgies again, till the duke he couldn’temendation stand it no more; so he writesemendation on a little scrap of paper, “obsequies, you old fool,” and foldsemendation it upemendation andalteration in the MS goesemendation to goo-gooingalteration in the MS and reaching it over people’s heads to him. The king he reads it, and puts it in his pocket, and says:

“Poor William, afflicted as he is,alteration in the MS his heart’s alteration in the MS aluzalteration in the MS emendation right. Asks me to invite everybody to come to the funeral—wants me to make ’em all welcome. But he needn’t a worriedhistorical collation—it was jest what I was at.”

Then he weaves along,historical collation again, perfectly ca’memendation, and goes toemendation dropping in his funeral orgies again every now and then, just likeemendation he done before.alteration in the MS And when he done it the third time, he says:

“I sayemendation orgies, not because it’s the common term, because it ain’t— [begin page 218] obsequiesalteration in the MS bein’alteration in the MS the common term—but because orgies isalteration in the MS the right term. Obsequies ain’t used in England no more,historical collation now—it’s gone out. We say orgies, now,historical collation in England. Orgies is better, because it means the thing you’reemendation after, more exact. It’s a word that’s made up out’nemendation the Greek orgo, outside, open, abroad; and the Hebrew jeesum explanatory note, to plant, cover up; hence inter emendation. So, youemendation see, funeral orgies is an open eremendation public funeral.”

He was the worst I ever struck. Well,emendation the iron-jawed man heemendation laughed right in his face. Everybody was shocked. Everybody saysemendation, “Whyhistorical collation doctor!” and Abner Shackleford says:

“Why, Robinson,emendation hain’t you heard the news? This is Harvey Wilks.”

The king heemendation smiled,historical collation eager,alteration in the MS and shovedalteration in the MS out his flapper,alteration in the MS and says:

Is it my poor brother’s dear good friend and physician? I—historical collation

“Keep your hands off of me!” says the doctor. “You talk like an Englishman—don’t you? It’s the worsthistorical collation imitation I ever heard. You Peter Wilks’s brother.emendation You’re a fraud, that’s what you are!”

Well, how they all took on! They crowded around the doctor, and tried to quiet him down, and tried to explain to him, and tell himhistorical collation how Harvey’d showed in forty ways that he was Harvey, and knowedalteration in the MS everybody byalteration in the MS name, and the names of the very dogs, and begged and begged him not to hurtalteration in the MS Harvey’s feelings and the poor girls’emendation feelings, and all that; but it warn’t no use, he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldn’t imitate the lingo no better than what he did, was a fraud and a liar. The poor girls was hanging to the king and crying; and all of a sudden the doctor ups and turns on them. He says:

[begin page 219] “I was your father’s friend, and I’m your friend; and I warn you as a friend, and an honest one, that wants to protect you and keep you out of harm and trouble, to turn your backs on that scoundrel, and have nothing to do with him, the ignorant trampemendation, with his idioticemendation Greek and Hebrew as he calls it. He is the thinnest kind of an imposteremendation—has come here with a lot of empty names and facts which he has picked up somewheresemendation, and you takeemendation them for proofs, and are helped to foolemendation yourselves by these foolishemendation friends here, who ought to know better. Mary Jane Wilks, you know me for your friend, and foremendation your unselfishemendation friend, tooemendation. Now listen to me:historical collation turn this pitiful rascalemendation out—I beg emendation you toemendation do it. Will you?”

Mary Jane straightened herself up, and my, but she was handsomeemendation! She says:

Here emendation is my answer.” She hove up the bag of money,historical collation and put it in the king’s hands, and says,historical collation “Take this sixalteration in the MS thousand dollars, and investemendation for me and my sisters any way you want toemendation, and don’t give us no receipt for it.emendation

Then she put her arm around the king on one side, and Susan and the hare-lipemendation done the same on the other. Everybody clapped their hands and stomped on the floor like a perfect storm, whilst the king held up his head and smiled proud. The doctor says:

“All right;historical collation I wash my hands of the matter. But I warn you all that a time’s coming when you’re going to feelalteration in the MS sick whenever you think of this day”—and away he went.

“All right, doctoralteration in the MS,”emendation says the king, kinder mocking him, “we’ll try and githistorical collation textual note ’em to sendalteration in the MS for you”—which made them all laugh, and they said it was a prime good hit.

the bag of money.
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  widow Bartley. (A Cent)  ●  wid’r Bartley.’ page trimmed  (MS2) 
  a-hunting (A Cent)  ●  hunting (MS2) 
  to t’other (A Cent)  ●  out of the (MS2) 
  some (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  bobbing (A Cent)  ●  nodding (MS2) 
  and dog (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  his (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  happened (A Cent)  ●  had happened (MS2) 
  one time or another (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  out of (A Cent)  ●  from (MS2) 
  steamboat (A Cent)  ●  steam- | boat (MS2) 
  uncle (C)  ●  father (MS2 A Cent) 
  they’d (A Cent)  ●  they would (MS2) 
  behind (A Cent)  ●  after (MS2) 
  spilt (A Cent)  ●  emptied (MS2) 
  yaller-boys (Cent)  ●  yellow-boys (MS2)  yaller- | boys (A) 
  reckon (A Cent)  ●  reckin (MS2) 
  Nonesuch— (C)  ●  Burnin’ Shame— (MS2)  Nonesuch, (A)  None- | such, (Cent) 
  yaller-boys (A Cent)  ●  yellow-boys (MS2) 
  down (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  furrin (A Cent)  ●  foreign (MS2) 
  ther’ (A)  ●  there (MS2) 
  everybody (A Cent)  ●  anybody (MS2) 
  counts (A Cent)  ●  counted (MS2) 
  comes (A Cent)  ●  come (MS2) 
  hunderd (A)  ●  hundred (MS2 Cent) 
  k’yer noth’n ’bout (A Cent)  ●  care nothing about (MS2) 
  thinkin’ (A)  ●  a thinking (MS2)  thinking (Cent) 
  thish-yer (C)  ●  this (MS2)  this h-yer (A Cent) 
  ther’ (A Cent)  ●  there (MS2) 
  noth’n (A Cent)  ●  nothing (MS2) 
  ther’s six thous’n (A Cent)  ●  there’s four thousand and thirty (MS2) 
  deffisit (A Cent)  ●  deffersit (MS2) 
  yaller-boys (Cent)  ●  yellow- | boys (MS2)  yaller- | boys (A) 
  amaz’n’ (A Cent)  ●  amazin (MS2) 
  Nonesuch— (C)  ●  Nonesuch, (Cent)  Burnin’ Shame— (MS2)  None- | such, (A) 
  heppin’ (A)  ●  helpin’ (MS2)  heppen’ (Cent) 
  yaller-jackets (Cent)  ●  yellow-jackets (MS2)  yaller- | jackets (A) 
  I (A Cent)  ●  I’ve (MS2) 
  Le’s (A Cent)  ●  “Less (MS2) 
  dazzling (A Cent)  ●  gorjis (MS2) 
  O (MS2)  ●  Oh (A Cent) 
  dodge (A Cent)  ●  trick (MS2) 
  ther’ (A Cent)  ●  there (MS2) 
  ’bout (A Cent)  ●  about (MS2) 
  elegant (A Cent)  ●  beautiful (MS2) 
  they (A Cent)  ●  ’twas (MS2) 
  it (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  if (A Cent)  ●  ef (MS2) 
  o’ (A Cent)  ●  of (MS2) 
  Ther’ (A Cent)  ●  There (MS2) 
  ’bout (A Cent)  ●  about (MS2) 
  o’ (A Cent)  ●  of (MS2) 
  that ’d (A)  ●  that would (MS2)  that’d (Cent) 
  o’ (A Cent)  ●  of (MS2) 
  that ’d (A)  ●  that would (MS2)  that’d (Cent) 
  ’at (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  If (A Cent)  ●  Ef (MS2) 
  ask (A Cent)  ●  ask  (MS2) 
  hands; and (A Cent)  ●  hands; (MS2) 
  looks (A Cent)  ●  looked (MS2) 
  seems (A Cent)  ●  seem (MS2) 
  lets (A Cent)  ●  let (MS2) 
  hare-lip (A Cent)  ●  hair-lip (MS2) 
  there from (A Cent)  ●  from the (MS2) 
  something . . . on— (A)  ●  a sentence: (MS2)  something . . . on: (Cent) 
  bein’ (A Cent)  ●  being (MS2) 
  o’ (A Cent)  ●  of (MS2) 
  to-morrow (A Cent)  ●  to-morrer (MS2) 
  orgies sh’d (Cent)  ●  orgies should (MS2)  orgies h’d (A) 
  he couldn’t (A Cent)  ●  couldn’t (MS2) 
  writes (A Cent)  ●  wrote (MS2) 
  folds (A Cent)  ●  folded (MS2) 
  up (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  goes (A Cent)  ●  went (MS2) 
  aluz (A Cent)  ●  always (MS2) 
  ca’m (A Cent)  ●  c’am (MS2) 
  goes to (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  like (A Cent)  ●  as (MS2) 
  say (A Cent)  ●  use the word (MS2) 
  you’re (A Cent)  ●  you are (MS2) 
  out’n (A Cent)  ●  out of (MS2) 
  inter  (A Cent)  ●  inter  (MS2) 
  you (A Cent)  ●  as you (MS2) 
  er (A Cent)  ●  or (MS2) 
  Well, (A Cent)  ●  Well, sir, (MS2) 
  he (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  says (A Cent)  ●  said (MS2) 
  Robinson, (A Cent)  ●  Robinson  (MS2) 
  he (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  brother. (A)  ●  brother! (MS2 Cent) 
  girls’ (A Cent)  ●  girls’s (MS2) 
  tramp (A Cent)  ●  hog (MS2) 
  idiotic (A Cent)  ●  putrid and idiotic (MS2) 
  kind of an imposter (C)  ●  of thin imposters (MS2)  kind of an impostor (A Cent) 
  somewheres (A Cent)  ●  somewhere (MS2) 
  take (A Cent)  ●  weakly take (MS2) 
  helped to fool (A Cent)  ●  assisted in deceiving (MS2) 
  foolish (A Cent)  ●  thoughtless unreasoning (MS2) 
  for (A Cent)  ●  not in  (MS2) 
  unselfish (A Cent)  ●  honest and unselfish (MS2) 
  friend, too (A Cent)  ●  friend (MS2) 
  turn this pitiful rascal (A Cent)  ●  cast this paltry villain (MS2) 
  beg  (A Cent)  ●  beg (MS2) 
  you to (A Cent)  ●  you, I beseech you to (MS2) 
  handsome (A Cent)  ●  beautiful (MS2) 
  Here  (A Cent)  ●  Here (MS2) 
  invest (A Cent)  ●  invest it (MS2) 
  want to (A Cent)  ●  like (MS2) 
  it. (A Cent)  ●  it! (MS2) 
  hare-lip (Cent)  ●  hair-lip (MS2)  hare- | lip (A) 
  doctor,” (A Cent)  ●  doctor” (MS2) 
Alterations in the Manuscript Chapter XXV.
 and the] followed by canceled ‘king’.
 

times.] followed by the passage below, which was revised in the MS and then canceled at a later stage. The superior numbers refer to Mark Twain’s revisions, which are listed following the passage: ‘Soon as he could, the duke shook the hairlip, and sampled1 Susan, which was better looking. After the king had kissed Mary Jane fourteen2 or fifteen times, he give the duke a show, and tapered off on the others.’ (emended).

1. sampled] interlined above canceled ‘tried’.

2. fourteen] written over wiped-out ‘consu’.

 “Sh!” and] originally’ “Sh! sh’; the closing quotation marks added and ‘and’ written over wiped-out ‘sh’.
 the coffin,] interlined above a canceled comma.
 then] follows canceled ‘then let go’.
 woman] interlined above canceled ‘heifer’.
 over] interlined.
 bully.] followed by canceled [¶] ‘Then Mary Jane she give the king the letter her father left behind’.
 Then . . . nieces] the MS reads [¶] ‘Then the king says: [¶] “My brother and me, and our nieces,’ (emended); the comma following ‘me’ added, and ‘and our nieces,’ interlined.
 with] written over what appears to be wiped-out ‘thi’.
 knows] the MS reads ‘know’ (emended); written over wiped-out ‘wo’.
 and Mr.] ‘and’ interlined.
 Rev.] interlined.
 together;] followed by what may be canceled ‘and’ and canceled ‘where’.
 away] interlined.
 sapheads] interlined above canceled ‘fools’.
 goo-goo-goo] the first ‘goo’ originally ‘good’; a hyphen written over wiped-out ‘d’.
 to Peter] ‘Peter’ written over wiped-out ‘pe’.
 house . . . tanyard] originally ‘house and the tanyard’; ‘and three niggers’ interlined following ‘house’; ‘niggers’ and ‘and the’ canceled, and ‘thousand dollars, to the girls; and it give the’ interlined preceding ‘tanyard’; ‘gold,’ interlined following ‘dollars,’.
 business,). . . other] originally ‘business,) to the girls, and it give some other’; ‘thousand’ interlined and canceled following ‘business,)’; ‘to . . . some’ canceled and replaced by ‘along with some’ interlined without a caret.
 about seven] interlined above canceled ‘thirteen’.
 three thousand] followed by canceled ‘and thirty’;‘three’ interlined above canceled ‘four’.
 six . . . cash] interlined above canceled ‘gold’.
 bein’] follows canceled ‘being’.
 fifteen] written over wiped-out ‘thi’.
 haul] follows canceled ‘fetch out’.
 six] interlined above canceled ‘four’.
 thousand] originally ‘thousand,’; the comma canceled and ‘and thirty,’ interlined and then canceled.
  give it to the girls] originally’ give . . . girls’; the underline apparently added.
 dazzling] the MS reads ‘gorjis’ (emended); follows canceled ‘gorgis’, which follows canceled ‘gorgis’.
 we] follows canceled ‘they’.
 twenty] interlined following canceled ‘thirteen or fourteen’.
 they raked it into . . . and] the MS reads ‘twas raked into . . . and’ (emended); interlined.
 that’s] ‘ ’s’ interlined.
 done] follows canceled ‘told us in his letter’.
 poor] mended from ‘pore’.
 woundin’] originally ‘wounded’; ‘in’’ written over wiped-out ‘ed’.
 seems] the MS reads ‘seem’ (emended); followed by a canceled apostrophe.
 him] followed by canceled ‘and kisses’.
  that] originally ‘that’; the underline apparently added.
 up . . . and] originally ‘up and’; the comma possibly added following ‘up’, and ‘with . . . eyes,’ interlined.
 pretty soon] interlined.
 the] originally ‘they’ with the partly formed ‘y’ wiped out.
 the] interlined.
 so] ‘s’ written over wiped-out partly formed ‘h’.
 folds it up and] the MS reads ‘folded it and’ (emended); interlined.
 goo-gooing] originally ‘goo-ing’; ‘gooing’ written over wiped-out ‘ing’.
 afflicted . . . is,] interlined.
  heart’s] the underline possibly added.
 aluz] the MS reads ‘always’ (emended); originallyalways’; the underline canceled.
 before.] followed by a canceled end-line dash.
 obsequies] originally ‘obsequees’; ‘i’ written over ‘e’.
 bein’] interlined above canceled ‘is’.
 orgies is] interlined above canceled ‘it’s’.
 eager,] interlined.
 shoved] follows canceled ‘pu’.
 flapper,] interlined above canceled ‘paw’.
 knowed] originally ‘kne’; ‘owed’ written over ‘e’.
 by] interlined.
 hurt] ‘h’ written over partly formed ‘H’.
 six] interlined above canceled ‘four’.
 feel] interlined above canceled ‘be’.
 doctor] interlined; the preceding comma possibly added when the interlineation was made.
 send] follows canceled ‘throw’.
Textual Notes Chapter XXV.
 meet at last] In the manuscript Huck says “Everybody . . . cried for joy to see them meet again at last”, forgetting that the Wilks girls had never before met their uncles Harvey and William Wilks (see 206.5–7). The error was corrected for the first time in HF 1985 and HF 1988.
 uncle] In the manuscript Huck says Mary Jane “fetched the letter her father left behind”, a slip of the tongue, for the “young country jake” who provided the king with his information made it clear that George Wilks, the girls’ father, died penniless, and that their uncle Peter left the testamentary letter (206.9–24). The error was first corrected in HF 1985 and HF 1988.
 thish-yer] The manuscript reads “this”, and the first edition “this h-yer”. Mark Twain’s invariable rendering of the dialect form in his manuscript is “thish-yer” or “dish-yer” (see 95.2–3, 214.24, 295.38, 321.23, and 84.4 [emended]). Most likely when he revised the [begin page 828] typescript, he interlined “h-yer” to follow “this”, and the compositor, unfamiliar with the form, mistook his intention and set the words with a space between them. The same revision and error of interpretation probably accounted for the reading at 164.13–14.
 git] As in the manuscript. The first edition reads “get”. The manuscript shows Mark Twain’s efforts to make the king’s dialect form consistently “git”. In at least two cases, where he had initially written “get”, he altered it to “git” (208.18 [MS2, 229.13 and 229.14]). He overlooked only one instance of “get” in the manuscript, which appears as “git” in the first edition, having doubtless been changed by the author on the typescript (see Emendations and Historical Collation, 227.18). While it is conceivable that in this instance Mark Twain, in order to approximate the king’s assumed accent, changed his preferred manuscript “git” to the more conventional “get”, the king’s dialect does not otherwise seem to have been altered to that purpose. The variant is therefore deemed more likely a sophistication on the part of the typesetter.
Explanatory Notes Chapter XXV.
 some of them putting on their coats as they come] In chapter 55 of Life on the Mississippi and in “Villagers of 1840–3,” Mark Twain recalled a Hannibal saddler who “used to go tearing down the street” to meet the boat, “putting on his coat as he went” (SLC 1883a, 540–41; Inds , 102). For an acute analysis of the style in the opening portion of this chapter, see Henry Nash Smith 1958a, xiii–xvi; see also Blair 1960a, 328–30.
 hogwash] In a letter to John Horner of Belfast, Ireland, dated 12 January 1906, Clemens stated that this word was “a term which was invented by the night foreman of the newspaper whereunto I was attached 40 yrs ago, in the capacity of local reporter, to describe my literary efforts” (CU-MARK). Clemens had evidently forgotten his discovery that one of his favorite writers, Horace Walpole, used the word in a letter dated 22 March 1796 (Clemens’s annotated copy of Walpole, 9:462, CtY-BR; see Baetzhold 1970, 274).
 set up with the ashes of the diseased] The king is speaking figuratively when he refers to Peter Wilks’s remains as “the ashes,” which can be defined as “a dead body or corpse; mortal remains” ( Century Dictionary , 1:336).
 a word that’s made up out’n the Greek orgo . . . and the Hebrew jeesum] The king’s false etymology and pretentious vocabulary were familiar devices in humorous literature. Twice in Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, a book Clemens frequently read, sharper Ephraim Jenkinson supports claims to learning by dropping classical allusions (chapters 14 and 25). In Hamilton W. Pierson’s In the Brush; or, Old-Time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the Southwest, a book whose title Clemens jotted down in his notebook in March 1882 ( N&J2 , 453), a local political candidate tries to settle a contested point and impress his hosts with his erudition: “ ‘The Greek settles that question. Blabtow may not always, in all circumstances, mean ‘immerse,’ but blabtezer, its derivative, means immerse—go in all over—every time. There’s no getting away from that’ ” (Pierson, 137–38). Mark Twain may not have intended “jeesum” to suggest “jism,” a vulgar term for semen. He had, however, used the expression “funeral orgies” with pointed intent in 1866 in one of his letters to the Sacramento Union, in describing the wild and licentious ceremonies attendant on the death of the king of the Sandwich Islands. “The term is coarse,” admitted Mark Twain, “but perhaps it is a better one than a milder one would be” (SLC 1866c; Rasmussen, 345–46).