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There were three male members of the household: Old Ben, the father, shiftless and dissolute; young Ben, the eldest son a doubtful character, with certain good traits; and Tom that is to say, Huck, who was just as he is described in the book a ruin of rags, a river-rat, kind of heart, and accountable for his conduct to nobody in the world.
Some river-rat the recruiting officers picked up in New York; in the guard-house most of the time; driver for Major McDonald when he happens to be sober enough." "That is where I saw him then, driving the ladies. Knew I had seen that mug before."
And then a river-rat plumped into the stream beneath the willows, and left a long string of bubbles behind him. Nick's ill humor soon wore off as he breathed the fresh air, moist from lush meadows, and sweet from hedges pink and white with hawthorn bloom.
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