The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Undead by Mark Twain & Don Borchert

Author:Mark Twain & Don Borchert
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Boys, Speculative Fiction, Zombies
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2010-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Difficulties in Arkansas

It was after sun-up now, but we went right on drifting and didn’t tie up and hide. The king and the duke turned out in a bit and looked pretty rusty; but after they’d jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal. After breakfast, the king took a seat on the corner of the raft and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by heart. When he got it pretty good, him and the duke begin to practice it together. The duke had to learn him over and over again how to say each speech; and he made him cast his eyes a certain way, and made him sigh, and put his hand over his heart, and after a while he got it pretty good.

Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that the duke had made out of oak laths, and begun to practice the sword fight; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was grand to see. But by and by the king tripped and fell overboard, and Jim and I busted up laughing, which was not the emotion they was going after, so they took a rest, and talked about all kinds of adventures they’d had in other times along the river.

The first chance we got, the duke had some show-bills printed; and after that, the raft was an uncommon lively place as we floated down, for there warn’t nothing but sword-fighting and speechifying going on all the time. One morning, when we was down the state of Arkansas, we come in sight of a little one-horse town by a big bend in the river, so we tied up about a half-mile above it, and all of us but Jim went to see if there was a chance to have our show in that place.

We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus in town that same afternoon, and the country-people was already beginning to come in to town. The circus would leave again before night, so it was perfect. The duke hired out the court-house and we went around that afternoon and stuck up our handbills.

Then we went loafing around town. The stores and houses were most all old, shackly, dried up concerns that hadn’t ever been painted; they was all set three or four feet above the ground on stilts to be out of the water when the river overflowed, which I guess it did regular. The houses had little gardens around them, but none of them held a candle to Aunt Polly’s vegetable and flower batch back home. They had jimpson-weed and sunflowers, and a few tomatoes that warn’t staked so they lay all about the ground, and ash-piles, and pieces of bottles and rags, and played-out tinware. The fences was made of different kinds of boards, and they leaned

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