“Well, then, what makes you talk so wild?”

“How does I talk wild?”

“ How? Why, hain’t you been talking about my coming back, and all that stuff, as if I’d been gone away?”

“Huck⁠—Huck Finn, you look me in de eye; look me in de eye. Hain’t you ben gone away?”

“Gone away? Why, what in the nation do you mean? I hain’t been gone anywheres. Where would I go to?”