Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain
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in low voices. Tom says:
"They're mostly dim and smoky, or like they're made out of fog, but this one wasn't." "No," I says; "I seen the goggles and the whiskers perfectly plain." "Yes, and the very colors in them loud countrified Sunday clothes--plaid breeches, green and black--" "Cotton velvet westcot, fire-red and yaller squares--" "Leather straps to the bottoms of the breeches legs and one of them hanging unbottoned--" "Yes, and that hat--" "What a hat for a ghost to wear!" You see it was the first season anybody wore that kind--a black stiff-brim stove-pipe, very high, and not smooth, with a round top--just like a sugar-loaf. "Did you notice if its hair was the same, Huck?" "No--seems to me I did, then again it seems to me I didn't." "I didn't either; but it had its bag along, I noticed that." "So did I. How can there be a ghost-bag, Tom?" |
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