Week Three, Creative Post

Dear Tom,
I'm writin' 'cause I ain't been much of a friend to you these past couple weeks here. Sometimes lyin' suits the 'casions, as I'm sure you, Tom, already know; but I couldn't stand no longer makin' you think I was dead when I was livin', and livin' more 'ventures then you coulda shaken a stick at. They ain't been the kinds you like, though - the ones with genies an' all that make-believe pretendin' business you perfer - it's the real kinds I been havin'. Sometimes I's just plum scared at the real 'ventures I been havin' - but don't you go thinkin' me yeller now! - you'da been scared as I was if you'd met up with the kinds of dangers I been faced with! Why, me and Jim--Oh! that's right, I forgot to tell you that I been with Jim, Miss Watson's n***** this whole time. But don't go thinkin' I'm a abolisionist neither now! I ain't one and don't you say I am! But you know how it is - them's good sometimes and Jim's a real friend to me and been what saved my life a couple times too! Well, anyways, I was gonna tell you about our 'ventures! We near got killed by a steamboat, and storms and hurricanes and things, and by them aligators and wild beasts, and by the crossfire of feudin' families as woulda shot your head off afore you'd said, "G'mornin'" if they'd a knowed you was 'a' the other family - but you ain't heard the worst! We come across these two swindlers who call themselves a king and a duke (but I knows they're just fakin' it, though I ain't got the heart to tell Jim so), and they was 'a' lying a barefaced to people in every town we come to. I really been beginnin' to try gettin' away from them cheats because they's almost got me lynched and prisoned nearly I'm sure. Sometimes I give up on honesty, for sure, but they been takin' it so far as to make a body feel sick and want to tell the truth. It's just a hard life, Tom, but it's a good one. I been missin' you a bit, so I hope you read this here letter with enjoyment. I hope we get to see each other afore dyin'.
Sincerely,
Huck

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~Huckleberry's Friend