“Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain’ dead — you ain’ drownded — you’s back ag’in? It’s too good for true, honey, it’s too good for true. Lemme look at you chile, lemme feel o’ you. No, you ain’ dead! You’s back ag’in, ’live en soun’, jis de same ole Huck — de same ole Huck, thanks to goodness!”

“What’s the matter with you, Jim?

You been a-drinking?”

“Drinkin’? Has I ben a-drinkin’? Has I had a chance to be a-drinkin’?”

“Well, then, what makes you talk so wild?”

“How does I talk wild?”