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Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	0	You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or a...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	1	After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by-and-by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people. Pretty soon I wanted to ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	2	Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn’t think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	3	I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke; for the house was all as still as death now, and so the widow wouldn’t know. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom—boom—boom—twelve licks; and all still again—stiller than ever. Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down i...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	4	“Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn’ hear sumf’n. Well, I know what I’s gwyne to do: I’s gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin.” So he set down on the ground betwixt me and Tom. He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine. ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	5	As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by-and-by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn’t wake. Afterwards Jim said the witches bew...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	6	Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hilltop we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand. We went down ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	7	Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it. Some thought it would be good to kill the families of boys that told the secrets. Tom said it was a good ide...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	8	“But how can we do it if we don’t know what it is?” “Why, blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what’s in the books, and get things all muddled up?” “Oh, that’s all very fine to say, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	9	“Well, if that’s the way I’m agreed, but I don’t take no stock in it. Mighty soon we’ll have the cave so cluttered up with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed, that there won’t be no place for the robbers. But go ahead, I ain’t got nothing to say.” Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they waked him up he...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	10	I set down one time back in the woods, and had a long think about it. I says to myself, if a body can get anything they pray for, why don’t Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? Why can’t the widow get back her silver snuffbox that was stole? Why can’t Miss Watson fat up? No, says I to myself, there ain’t not...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	11	Pap he hadn’t been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn’t want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, a...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	12	We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned. All the boys did. We hadn’t robbed nobody, hadn’t killed any people, but only just pretended. We used to hop out of the woods and go charging down on hog-drivers and women in carts taking garden stuff to market, but we never hived any of them. Tom Sawyer...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	13	I didn’t see no di’monds, and I told Tom Sawyer so. He said there was loads of them there, anyway; and he said there was A-rabs there, too, and elephants and things. I said, why couldn’t we see them, then? He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it w...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	14	“How you talk, Huck Finn. Why, you’d have to come when he rubbed it, whether you wanted to or not.” “What! and I as high as a tree and as big as a church? All right, then; I would come; but I lay I’d make that man climb the highest tree there was in the country.” “Shucks, it ain’t no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. You ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	15	One morning I happened to turn over the salt-cellar at breakfast. I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off. She says, “Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making!” The widow put...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	16	He looked surprised. He couldn’t seem to make it out. He says: “Why, what can you mean, my boy?” I says, “Don’t you ask me no questions about it, please. You’ll take it—won’t you?” He says: “Well, I’m puzzled. Is something the matter?” “Please take it,” says I, “and don’t ask me nothing—then I won’t have to tell no lie...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	17	Then he wrote something on a paper and read it over, and says: “There; you see it says ‘for a consideration.’ That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it. Here’s a dollar for you. Now you sign it.” So I signed it, and left. Miss Watson’s nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took o...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	18	“Yo’ ole father doan’ know yit what he’s a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he’ll go ’way, en den agin he spec he’ll stay. De bes’ way is to res’ easy en let de ole man take his own way. Dey’s two angels hoverin’ roun’ ’bout him. One uv ’em is white en shiny, en t’other one is black. De white one gits him to go right a l...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	19	I stood a-looking at him; he set there a-looking at me, with his chair tilted back a little. I set the candle down. I noticed the window was up; so he had clumb in by the shed. He kept a-looking me all over. By-and-by he says: “Starchy clothes—very. You think you’re a good deal of a big-bug, don’t you?” “Maybe I am, ma...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	20	“What’s this?” “It’s something they give me for learning my lessons good.” He tore it up, and says: “I’ll give you something better—I’ll give you a cowhide.” He set there a-mumbling and a-growling a minute, and then he says: “Ain’t you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and a look’n’-glass; and a pie...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	21	Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher’s and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn’t, and then he swore he’d make the law force him. The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge th...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	22	“Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There’s a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain’t so no more; it’s the hand of a man that’s started in on a new life, and’ll die before he’ll go back. You mark them words—don’t forget I said them. It’s a clean hand now; shake it—don’t be afeard.”...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	23	He got to hanging around the widow’s too much and so she told him at last that if he didn’t quit using around there she would make trouble for him. Well, wasn’t he mad? He said he would show who was Huck Finn’s boss. So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mi...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	24	But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick’ry, and I couldn’t stand it. I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome. I judged he had got drownded, and I wasn’t ever going to get out any more. I was scared. I made u...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	25	Pap warn’t in a good humor—so he was his natural self. He said he was down town, and everything was going wrong. His lawyer said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they ever got started on the trial; but then there was ways to put it off a long time, and Judge Thatcher knowed how to do it. And he...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	26	The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got. There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to res...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	27	“Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s son away from him—a man’s own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and be...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	28	“Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there from Ohio—a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain’t a man in that town that’s got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	29	Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old limber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language—mostly hove at the nigger and the govment, though he give the tub some, too, all along, here and ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	30	I don’t know how long I was asleep, but all of a sudden there was an awful scream and I was up. There was pap looking wild, and skipping around every which way and yelling about snakes. He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek—but I couldn’t s...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	31	Then he went down on all fours and crawled off, begging them to let him alone, and he rolled himself up in his blanket and wallowed in under the old pine table, still a-begging; and then he went to crying. I could hear him through the blanket. By-and-by he rolled out and jumped up on his feet looking wild, and he see m...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	32	“Why didn’t you roust me out?” “Well, I tried to, but I couldn’t; I couldn’t budge you.” “Well, all right. Don’t stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there’s a fish on the lines for breakfast. I’ll be along in a minute.” He unlocked the door, and I cleared out up the river-bank. I noticed some pi...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	33	When he got along I was hard at it taking up a “trot” line. He abused me a little for being so slow; but I told him I fell in the river, and that was what made me so long. I knowed he would see I was wet, and then he would be asking questions. We got five catfish off the lines and went home. While we laid off after bre...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	34	I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dippe...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	35	I took the axe and smashed in the door. I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground—hard packed, and no boards. Well, next I took an old ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	36	It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise. I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by-and-by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan. I says to myself, they’ll follow the track of that sackfu...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	37	I didn’t lose no time. The next minute I was a-spinning down stream soft but quick in the shade of the bank. I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river, because pretty soon I would be passing the ferry landing, and people might see me and hail me. I got o...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	38	It didn’t take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore. I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	39	I was pretty hungry, but it warn’t going to do for me to start a fire, because they might see the smoke. So I set there and watched the cannon-smoke and listened to the boom. The river was a mile wide there, and it always looks pretty on a summer morning—so I was having a good enough time seeing them hunt for my remain...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	40	By-and-by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore. Most everybody was on the boat. Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more. Everybody was talking about the murder, but t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	41	When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by-and-by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain’t no better way to put in...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	42	I reckon I was up in the tree two hours; but I didn’t see nothing, I didn’t hear nothing—I only thought I heard and seen as much as a thousand things. Well, I couldn’t stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time. All I could get to eat was berries and what...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	43	So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along down amongst the shadows. The moon was shining, and outside of the shadows it made it most as light as day. I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep. Well, by this time I was most down t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	44	“It’s good daylight. Le’s get breakfast. Make up your camp fire good.” “What’s de use er makin’ up de camp fire to cook strawbries en sich truck? But you got a gun, hain’t you? Den we kin git sumfn better den strawbries.” “Strawberries and such truck,” I says. “Is that what you live on?” “I couldn’ git nuffn else,” he ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	45	“Why, Jim?” “Well, dey’s reasons. But you wouldn’ tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?” “Blamed if I would, Jim.” “Well, I b’lieve you, Huck. I—I run off.” “Jim!” “But mind, you said you wouldn’ tell—you know you said you wouldn’ tell, Huck.” “Well, I did. I said I wouldn’t, and I’ll stick to it. Honest inj...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	46	“I laid dah under de shavin’s all day. I ’uz hungry, but I warn’t afeard; bekase I knowed ole missus en de widder wuz goin’ to start to de camp-meet’n’ right arter breakfas’ en be gone all day, en dey knows I goes off wid de cattle ’bout daylight, so dey wouldn’ ’spec to see me roun’ de place, en so dey wouldn’ miss me...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	47	“But I didn’ have no luck. When we ’uz mos’ down to de head er de islan’ a man begin to come aft wid de lantern, I see it warn’t no use fer to wait, so I slid overboard en struck out fer de islan’. Well, I had a notion I could lan’ mos’ anywhers, but I couldn’t—bank too bluff. I ’uz mos’ to de foot er de islan’ b’fo’ I...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	48	I had heard about some of these things before, but not all of them. Jim knowed all kinds of signs. He said he knowed most everything. I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warn’t any good-luck signs. He says: “Mighty few—an’ dey ain’t no use to a body. What you want t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	49	“So I done it. Den I reck’n’d I’d inves’ de thirty-five dollars right off en keep things a-movin’. Dey wuz a nigger name’ Bob, dat had ketched a wood-flat, en his marster didn’ know it; en I bought it off’n him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en’ er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat n...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	50	I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that I’d found when I was exploring; so we started and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide. This place was a tolerable long, steep hill or ridge about forty foot high. We had a rough time gettin...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	51	The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on. So we built it there and cooked dinner. We spread the blankets inside for a carpet, and eat our dinner in there. We put all the other things handy ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	52	Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe, It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside. We went winding in and out amongst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some other way. Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabb...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	53	He went, and bent down and looked, and says: “It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He’s ben shot in de back. I reck’n he’s ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face—it’s too gashly.” I didn’t look at him at all. Jim throwed some old rags over him, but he needn’t done it; I didn’t want ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	54	And so, take it all around, we made a good haul. When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. I paddled over to the Illinoi...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	55	“Never you mind, honey, never you mind. Don’t you git too peart. It’s a-comin’. Mind I tell you, it’s a-comin’.” It did come, too. It was a Tuesday that we had that talk. Well, after dinner Friday we was laying around in the grass at the upper end of the ridge, and got out of tobacco. I went to the cavern to get some, ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	56	Jim was laid up for four days and nights. Then the swelling was all gone and he was around again. I made up my mind I wouldn’t ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it. Jim said he reckoned I would believe him next time. And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awf...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	57	Next morning I said it was getting slow and dull, and I wanted to get a stirring up some way. I said I reckoned I would slip over the river and find out what was going on. Jim liked that notion; but he said I must go in the dark and look sharp. Then he studied it over and said, couldn’t I put on some of them old things...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	58	“Come in,” says the woman, and I did. She says: “Take a cheer.” I done it. She looked me all over with her little shiny eyes, and says: “What might your name be?” “Sarah Williams.” “Where ’bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?’ “No’m. In Hookerville, seven mile below. I’ve walked all the way and I’m all tired out.” ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	59	“Well, I reckon there’s a right smart chance of people here that’d like to know who killed him. Some think old Finn done it himself.” “No—is that so?” “Most everybody thought it at first. He’ll never know how nigh he come to getting lynched. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigge...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	60	“Oh, no, not everybody. A good many thinks he done it. But they’ll get the nigger pretty soon now, and maybe they can scare it out of him.” “Why, are they after him yet?” “Well, you’re innocent, ain’t you! Does three hundred dollars lay around every day for people to pick up? Some folks think the nigger ain’t far from ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	61	“I didn’t think of that.” The woman kept looking at me pretty curious, and I didn’t feel a bit comfortable. Pretty soon she says, “What did you say your name was, honey?” “M—Mary Williams.” Somehow it didn’t seem to me that I said it was Mary before, so I didn’t look up—seemed to me I said it was Sarah; so I felt sort ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	62	“Keep your eye on the rats. You better have the lead in your lap, handy.” So she dropped the lump into my lap just at that moment, and I clapped my legs together on it and she went on talking. But only about a minute. Then she took off the hank and looked me straight in the face, and very pleasant, and says: “Come, now...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	63	“Goshen, child? This ain’t Goshen. This is St. Petersburg. Goshen’s ten mile further up the river. Who told you this was Goshen?” “Why, a man I met at daybreak this morning, just as I was going to turn into the woods for my regular sleep. He told me when the roads forked I must take the right hand, and five mile would ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	64	“The whole fifteen, mum.” “Well, I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. What’s your real name, now?” “George Peters, mum.” “Well, try to remember it, George. Don’t forget and tell me it’s Elexander before you go, and then get out by saying it’s George Elexander when I ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	65	I went up the bank about fifty yards, and then I doubled on my tracks and slipped back to where my canoe was, a good piece below the house. I jumped in, and was off in a hurry. I went up-stream far enough to make the head of the island, and then started across. I took off the sun-bonnet, for I didn’t want no blinders o...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	66	If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn’t no fault of mine. I played it as low down on them as I could. When the first streak of day began to show we t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	67	When it was beginning to come on dark we poked our heads out of the cottonwood thicket, and looked up and down and across; nothing in sight; so Jim took up some of the top planks of the raft and built a snug wigwam to get under in blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the things dry. Jim made a floor for the wigwam, a...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	68	Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o’clock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents’ worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn’t roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don’t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	69	We shot a water-fowl, now and then, that got up too early in the morning or didn’t go to bed early enough in the evening. Take it all round, we lived pretty high. The fifth night below St. Louis we had a big storm after midnight, with a power of thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in a solid sheet. We staye...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	70	“Le’s land on her, Jim.” But Jim was dead against it at first. He says: “I doan’ want to go fool’n ’long er no wrack. We’s doin’ blame’ well, en we better let blame’ well alone, as de good book says. Like as not dey’s a watchman on dat wrack.” “Watchman your grandmother,” I says; “there ain’t nothing to watch but the t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	71	“Oh, please don’t, boys; I swear I won’t ever tell!” Another voice said, pretty loud: “It’s a lie, Jim Turner. You’ve acted this way before. You always want more’n your share of the truck, and you’ve always got it, too, because you’ve swore ’t if you didn’t you’d tell. But this time you’ve said it jest one time too man...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	72	“But I don’t want him killed, and I’ve got my reasons for it.” “Bless yo’ heart for them words, Jake Packard! I’ll never forgit you long’s I live!” says the man on the floor, sort of blubbering. Packard didn’t take no notice of that, but hung up his lantern on a nail and started towards where I was there in the dark, a...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	73	“You bet it is. But how you goin’ to manage it this time?” “Well, my idea is this: we’ll rustle around and gather up whatever pickins we’ve overlooked in the staterooms, and shove for shore and hide the truck. Then we’ll wait. Now I say it ain’t a-goin’ to be more’n two hours befo’ this wrack breaks up and washes off d...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	74	“Oh, my lordy, lordy! Raf’? Dey ain’ no raf’ no mo’; she done broke loose en gone I—en here we is!” Well, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering. We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and s...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	75	So they got out and went in. The door slammed to because it was on the careened side; and in a half second I was in the boat, and Jim come tumbling after me. I out with my knife and cut the rope, and away we went! We didn’t touch an oar, and we didn’t speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe. We went gliding swift al...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	76	It was the raft, and mighty glad was we to get aboard of it again. We seen a light now away down to the right, on shore. So I said I would go for it. The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck. We hustled it on to the raft in a pile, and I told Jim to float along down, and show a li...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	77	I broke in and says: “They’re in an awful peck of trouble, and—” “Who is?” “Why, pap and mam and sis and Miss Hooker; and if you’d take your ferry-boat and go up there—” “Up where? Where are they?” “On the wreck.” “What wreck?” “Why, there ain’t but one.” “What, you don’t mean the Walter Scott?” “Yes.” “Good land! what...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	78	“By Jackson, I’d like to, and, blame it, I don’t know but I will; but who in the dingnation’s a-going’ to pay for it? Do you reckon your pap—” “Why that’s all right. Miss Hooker she tole me, particular, that her uncle Hornback—” “Great guns! is he her uncle? Looky here, you break for that light over yonder-way, and tur...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	79	It did seem a powerful long time before Jim’s light showed up; and when it did show, it looked like it was a thousand mile off. By the time I got there the sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people. By-a...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	80	“Ain’ dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?” “They don’t do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around.” “No; is dat so?” “Of course it is. They just set around—except, maybe, when there’s a war; then they go to the war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking—just hawking and sp— Sh!—d’ you hear a n...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	81	“I doan k’yer what de widder say, he warn’t no wise man nuther. He had some er de dad-fetchedes’ ways I ever see. Does you know ’bout dat chile dat he ’uz gwyne to chop in two?” “Yes, the widow told me all about it.” “Well, den! Warn’ dat de beatenes’ notion in de worl’? You jes’ take en look at it a minute. Dah’s de s...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	82	I never see such a nigger. If he got a notion in his head once, there warn’t no getting it out again. He was the most down on Solomon of any nigger I ever see. So I went to talking about other kings, and let Solomon slide. I told about Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time ago; and about his lit...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	83	“Is a cat a man, Huck?” “No.” “Well, den, dey ain’t no sense in a cat talkin’ like a man. Is a cow a man?—er is a cow a cat?” “No, she ain’t either of them.” “Well, den, she ain’t got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of ’em. Is a Frenchman a man?” “Yes.” “Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan’ he talk like...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	84	Thinks I, it won’t do to paddle; first I know I’ll run into the bank or a tow-head or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it’s mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. I whooped and listened. Away down there somewheres I hears a small whoop, and up comes my spirits. I went t...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	85	I kept quiet, with my ears cocked, about fifteen minutes, I reckon. I was floating along, of course, four or five miles an hour; but you don’t ever think of that. No, you feel like you are laying dead still on the water; and if a little glimpse of a snag slips by you don’t think to yourself how fast you’re going, but y...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	86	It was a monstrous big river here, with the tallest and the thickest kind of timber on both banks; just a solid wall, as well as I could see by the stars. I looked away down-stream, and seen a black speck on the water. I took after it; but when I got to it it warn’t nothing but a couple of sawlogs made fast together. T...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	87	“No, I didn’t. What tow-head? I hain’t see no tow-head.” “You hain’t seen no tow-head? Looky here, didn’t de line pull loose en de raf’ go a-hummin’ down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog?” “What fog?” “Why, de fog!—de fog dat’s been aroun’ all night. En didn’t you whoop, en didn’t I whoop, tell we go...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	88	“Oh, well, that’s all right, because a dream does tire a body like everything sometimes. But this one was a staving dream; tell me all about it, Jim.” So Jim went to work and told me the whole thing right through, just as it happened, only he painted it up considerable. Then he said he must start in and “’terpret” it, ...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	89	“What do dey stan’ for? I’se gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’ k’yer no’ mo’ what become er me en de raf’. En when I wake up en fine you back agin, all safe en soun’, de tears come, en I could a got d...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	90	We went drifting down into a big bend, and the night clouded up and got hot. The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldn’t see a break in it hardly ever, or a light. We talked about Cairo, and wondered whether we would know it when we got to it. I said likely we wouldn’t, because...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	91	“Dah she is?” But it warn’t. It was Jack-o’-lanterns, or lightning bugs; so he set down again, and went to watching, same as before. Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it th...
Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_-_Mark_Twain	92	It most froze me to hear such talk. He wouldn’t ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, “Give a nigger an inch and he’ll take an ell.” Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was ...

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📚 GutenQA-Recursive

GutenQA-Recursive consists on the same 100 Public Domain Narrative Books used in GutenQA (the proposed benchmark to the paper LumberChunker: Long-Form Narrative Document Segmentation, and serves as one of the baseline chunking approaches utilized on the LumberChunker paper.
In this version, passages are segmented with Langchain's Recursive Character Splitting function.

The dataset is organized into the following columns:

Book Name: The title of the book from which the passage is extracted.
Book ID: A unique integer identifier assigned to each book.
Chunk ID: An integer identifier for each chunk of the book. Chunks are listed in the sequence they appear in the book.
Chunk: Each row contains a group of book passages which, in this dataset, are chunks that result from applying Recursive Character Splitting on GutenQA-Paragraphs.

🔧 Loading the Dataset.

import pandas as pd
dataset = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/LumberChunker/GutenQA_Recursive/GutenQA_recursive.parquet")

# Filter the DataFrame to show only rows with the specified book name
single_book_chunks = dataset[dataset['Book Name'] == 'A_Christmas_Carol_-_Charles_Dickens'].reset_index(drop=True)

💬 Citation

@misc{duarte2024lumberchunker,
      title={LumberChunker: Long-Form Narrative Document Segmentation}, 
      author={André V. Duarte and João Marques and Miguel Graça and Miguel Freire and Lei Li and Arlindo L. Oliveira},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2406.17526},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17526}, 
}

📖 Book References

[1] Twain, M. (2004). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Project Gutenberg.
[2] Carroll, L. (2008). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Project Gutenberg.
[3] Tolstoy, L. (1998). Anna Karenina. Project Gutenberg.
[4] Montgomery, L. (2008). Anne of Green Gables. Project Gutenberg.
[5] Verne, J. (1994). Around the World in Eighty Days. Project Gutenberg.
[6] Dickens, C. (2004). A Christmas Carol. Project Gutenberg.
[7] Twain, M. (2004). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Project Gutenberg.
[8] Hudson, W. (2005). A Crystal Age. Project Gutenberg.
[9] Scott, S. (2006). A Legend Of Montrose. Project Gutenberg.
[10] Joyce, J. (2003). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Project Gutenberg.
[11] Forster, E. (2001). A Room with a View. Project Gutenberg.
[12] Doyle, A. (1995). A Study in Scarlet. Project Gutenberg.
[13] Dickens, C. (1994). A Tale of Two Cities. Project Gutenberg.
[14] Nietzsche, F. (2003). Beyond Good and Evil. Project Gutenberg.
[15] Le Fanu, J. (2003). Carmilla. Project Gutenberg.
[16] Gaskell, E. (1996). Cranford. Project Gutenberg.
[17] Dostoyevsky, F. (2006). Crime and Punishment. Project Gutenberg.
[18] Garis, H. (2005). Daddy takes us to the Garden. Project Gutenberg.
[19] Dickens, C. (1996). David Copperfield. Project Gutenberg.
[20] Stoker, B. (1995). Dracula. Project Gutenberg.
[21] Joyce, J. (2001). Dubliners. Project Gutenberg.
[22] Austen, J. (1994). Emma. Project Gutenberg.
[23] Shelley, M. (1993). Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus. Project Gutenberg.
[24] Dickens, C. (1998). Great Expectations. Project Gutenberg.
[25] Brothers, G. (2001). Grimms' Fairy Tales. Project Gutenberg.
[26] Swift, J. (1997). Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Project Gutenberg.
[27] Conrad, J. (2006). Heart of Darkness. Project Gutenberg.
[28] Jacobs, H. (2004). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Project Gutenberg.
[29] Bronte, C. (1998). Jane Eyre. Project Gutenberg.
[30] Hugo, V. (2008). Les Miserables. Project Gutenberg.
[31] Alcott, L. (1996). Little Women. Project Gutenberg.
[32] Dumas, A. (2001). Louise de la Valliere. Project Gutenberg.
[33] Flaubert, G. (2006). Madame Bovary. Project Gutenberg.
[34] Aurelius, E. (2001). Meditations. Project Gutenberg.
[35] Eliot, G. (1994). Middlemarch. Project Gutenberg.
[36] Melville, H. (2001). Moby Dick Or The Whale. Project Gutenberg.
[37] Wagner, R. (2004). My Life. Project Gutenberg.
[38] Douglass, F. (2006). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Project Gutenberg.
[39] Dickens, C. (1996). Oliver Twist. Project Gutenberg.
[40] Austen, J. (1994). Persuasion. Project Gutenberg.
[41] Barrie, J. (2008). Peter Pan. Project Gutenberg.
[42] Austen, J. (1998). Pride and Prejudice. Project Gutenberg.
[43] Brand, M. (2006). Riders Of The Silences. Project Gutenberg.
[44] Locke, J. (2005). Second Treatise of Government. Project Gutenberg.
[45] Austen, J. (1994). Sense and Sensibility. Project Gutenberg.
[46] Dumas, A. (2001). Ten Years Later. Project Gutenberg.
[47] Smollett, T. (2004). The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Project Gutenberg.
[48] Smollett, T. (2003). The Adventures of Roderick Random. Project Gutenberg.
[49] Doyle, A. (1999). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Project Gutenberg.
[50] Twain, M. (2004). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Project Gutenberg.
[51] Dumas, A. (1997). The Black Tulip. Project Gutenberg.
[52] Montgomery, L. (2022). The Blue Castle. Project Gutenberg.
[53] Couch, A. (2006). The Blue Pavilions. Project Gutenberg.
[54] Dostoyevsky, F. (2009). The Brothers Karamazov. Project Gutenberg.
[55] London, J. (2008). The Call of the Wild. Project Gutenberg.
[56] Augustine, B. (2002). The Confessions of St. Augustine. Project Gutenberg.
[57] Dumas, A. (1998). The Count of Monte Cristo. Project Gutenberg.
[58] Arnim, E. (2005). The Enchanted April. Project Gutenberg.
[59] Leblanc, M. (2004). The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin. Project Gutenberg.
[60] Dostoyevsky, F. (2000). The Gambler. Project Gutenberg.
[61] Fitzgerald, F. (2021). The Great Gatsby. Project Gutenberg.
[62] Doyle, A. (2001). The Hound of the Baskervilles. Project Gutenberg.
[63] Chambers, R. (2005). The King in Yellow. Project Gutenberg.
[64] Defoe, D. (1996). The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Project Gutenberg.
[65] Dumas, A. (2001). The Man in the Iron Mask. Project Gutenberg.
[66] Christie, A. (2022). The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Project Gutenberg.
[67] Christie, A. (2019). The Murder on the Links. Project Gutenberg.
[68] Homer, H. (1999). The Odyssey. Project Gutenberg.
[69] Wilde, O. (1994). The Picture of Dorian Gray. Project Gutenberg.
[70] Machiavelli, N. (2006). The Prince. Project Gutenberg.
[71] Twain, M. (2004). The Prince and the Pauper. Project Gutenberg.
[72] Russell, B. (2004). The Problems of Philosophy. Project Gutenberg.
[73] Gibran, K. (2019). The Prophet. Project Gutenberg.
[74] Rizal, J. (2004). The Reign of Greed. Project Gutenberg.
[75] Plato, P. (1998). The Republic. Project Gutenberg.
[76] Anonymous, A. (2009). The Romance of Lust. Project Gutenberg.
[77] Hawthorne, N. (2008). The Scarlet Letter. Project Gutenberg.
[78] Doyle, A. (2000). The Sign of the Four. Project Gutenberg.
[79] Bois, W. (1996). The Souls of Black Folk. Project Gutenberg.
[80] Stevenson, R. (2008). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Project Gutenberg.
[81] Hemingway, E. (2022). The Sun Also Rises. Project Gutenberg.
[82] Dumas, A. (1998). The Three Musketeers. Project Gutenberg.
[83] Wells, H. (2004). The Time Machine. Project Gutenberg.
[84] Kafka, F. (2005). The Trial. Project Gutenberg.
[85] James, H. (1995). The Turn of the Screw. Project Gutenberg.
[86] Dumas, A. (2001). The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Project Gutenberg.
[87] Wells, H. (2004). The War of the Worlds. Project Gutenberg.
[88] Baum, L. (1993). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Project Gutenberg.
[89] Nietzsche, F. (1999). Thus Spake Zarathustra. Project Gutenberg.
[90] Stevenson, R. (2006). Treasure Island. Project Gutenberg.
[91] Verne, J. (1994). Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Project Gutenberg.
[92] Dumas, A. (1998). Twenty Years After. Project Gutenberg.
[93] Joyce, J. (2003). Ulysses. Project Gutenberg.
[94] Stowe, H. (2006). Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life among the Lowly. Project Gutenberg.
[95] Thoreau, H. (1995). Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience. Project Gutenberg.
[96] Tolstoy, L. (2001). War and Peace. Project Gutenberg.
[97] Brand, M. (2006). Way Of The Lawless. Project Gutenberg.
[98] Dostoyevsky, F. (2011). White Nights and Other Stories. Project Gutenberg.
[99] Milne, A. (2022). Winnie the Pooh. Project Gutenberg.
[100] Bronte, E. (1996). Wuthering Heights. Project Gutenberg.

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LumberChunker: Long-Form Narrative Document Segmentation

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