Huckleberry Finn - Chapters 33 & 34

CHAPTER XXXIII & XXXIV

A Nigger Stealer — Southern Hospitality — A Pretty Long Blessing — Tar and Feathers

So I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along.  I says "Hold on!" and it stopped alongside, and his mouth opened up like a trunk, and stayed so; and he swallowed two or three times like a person that's got a dry throat, and then says:

"I hain't ever done you no harm.  You know that.  So, then, what you want to come back and ha'nt ME for?"

I says:

"I hain't come back—I hain't been GONE.”