And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free! and I couldn't ever understand before, until that minute and that talk, how he COULD help a body set a nigger free with his bringing-up.

     Well, Aunt Polly she said that when Aunt Sally wrote to her that Tom and SID had come all right and safe, she says to herself:

     "Look at that, now! I might have expected it, letting him go off that way without anybody to watch him. So now I got to go and trapse all the way down the river, eleven hundred mile, and find out what that creetur's up to THIS time, as long as I couldn't seem to get any answer out of you about it."

     "Why, I never heard nothing from you," says Aunt Sally.

     "Well, I wonder! Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here."

     "Well, I never got 'em, Sis."

     Aunt Polly she turns around slow and severe, and says:

     "You, Tom!"

     "Well--WHAT?" he says, kind of pettish.

     "Don't you what ME, you impudent thing--hand out them letters."