THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

‘Say, Huck, if we find a treasure here, what you going to do with your share?’

‘Well, I’ll have a pie and a glass of soda every day, and I’ll go to every circus that comes along.  I’ll bet I’ll have a gay time.’

‘Well, ain’t you going to save any of it?’

‘Save it?  What for?’

‘Why, so as to have something to live on by and by.’

‘Oh, that ain’t any use.  Pap would come back to thish yer town some day and get his claws on it if I didn’t hurry up, and I tell you he’d clean it out pretty quick.  What you going to do with yourn, Tom?’

‘I’m going to buy a new drum, and a sure-‘nough sword, and a red necktie, and a bull pup, and get married.’

‘Married!’

‘That’s it.’

‘Tom, you – why you ain’t in your right mind.’

Twain/Sawyer