DARK SCHEMES.
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"Why, Tom Sawyer, how you talk," I says; "Jim ain't got no use for a rope-ladder."
"He has got use for it." How you talk; you better say you don't know nothing about it. He's got to have a rope-ladder; they all do."
"What in the nation can he do with it?"
ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORITIES.
"Do with it? He can hide it in his bed, can't he? That's what they all do; and he's got to, too. Huck, you don't ever seem to want to do anything that's regular; you want to be starting something fresh all the time. S'pose he don't do nothing with it? ain't it there in his bed, for a clew, after he's gone? and don't you reckon they'll want clews? Of course they will. And you wouldn't leave them any? That would be
