Hogsheads
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In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another,
hogsheads
of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
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He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty
hogsheads
in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.
Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty
hogsheads.
Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty
hogsheads
down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.
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