Main Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
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Author: Twain, Mark
First Published: 1884
Publisher Used for Citing: Project Gutenberg
Type: Fiction
Period: 19th Century

…dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs--where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know.


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