The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up. So the longer I went to school the easier it got to be. I was getting sort of used to the widow’s ways, too, and they warn’t so raspy on me. Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometimes, and so that was a rest to me. I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit. The widow said I was coming along slow but sure, and doing very satisfactory. S

Per­sons at­tempt­ing to find a mo­tive in this nar­ra­tive will be pros­e­cuted; per­sons at­tempt­ing to find a moral in it will be ban­ished; per­sons at­tempt­ing to find a plot in it will be shot.
By the or­der of the au­thor
Per G. G., Chief of Ord­nance.