1 I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep.
2 I says to myself, they'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me.
3 We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 4 But he put his foot on the gunnel and rocked her, and shook his head, and said he reckoned he'd look around for a bigger one.
5 Come to think, the logs ain't a-going to do; they don't have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 6 We tramped and clumb around all over it, and by and by found a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois.
7 Jim said the rock was worse than the logs; he said it would take him such a pison long time to dig them into a rock he wouldn't ever get out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 8 Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place, and put two rocks under it and one against it to hold it there, for it was bent up at that place and didn't quite touch ground.
9 Jim he never let on but what it was only just a piece of rock or something like that that's always getting into bread, you know; but after that he never bit into nothing but what he jabbed his fork into it in three or four places first.
10 I landed below where I judged was Phelps's place, and hid my bundle in the woods, and then filled up the canoe with water, and loaded rocks into her and sunk her where I could find her again when I wanted her, about a quarter of a mile below a little steam sawmill that was on the bank.