We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didnβt ever feel like talking loud, and it warnβt often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. β¨ Mark Twain (2010). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript, p.78, Univ of California Press
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