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Quotation from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last (Project Gutenberg #76 text)
The closing lines return to the opening: Huck refuses once more to be civilized and looks west to the Indian Territory.
Citation: "But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before." — Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last (Project Gutenberg #76 text). (id adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-q8)
Portrait: Huckleberry Finn book, E. W. Kemble, Public domain.
