kill the FAMILIES of boys that told the secrets. Tom said it was a good idea,
so he took a pencil and wrote it in. Then Ben Rogers says:
"Here's Huck Finn, he hain't got no family; what you going to do 'bout
him?"
"Well, hain't he got a father?" says Tom Sawyer.
"Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him these days. He used
to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these
parts for a year or more."
They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every
boy must have a family or somebody to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and
square for the others. Well, nobody could think of anything to do--everybody
was stumped, and set still. I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought
of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson--they could kill her. Everybody
said:
"Oh, she'll do. That's all right. Huck can come in."
Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get blood to sign with, and I
made my mark on th
