“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 injun , I will. People would call me a lowdown Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum⁠—but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le’s know all about it.”