THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 8 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 8 THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes but mostly it was big trees all about and gloomy in there amongst them. There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves and the freckled places swapped about a little showing there was a little breeze up there. A couple of squirrels set on a limb and jabbered at me very friendly. I was powerful lazy and comfortable -- didn t want to get up and cook breakfast. Well I was dozing off again when I thinks I hears a deep sound of boom away up the river. I rouses up and rests on my elbow and listens pretty soon I hears it again. I hopped up and went and looked out at a hole in the leaves and I see a bunch of smoke laying on the water a long ways up -- about abreast the ferry. And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down. I knowed what was the matter now. Boom I see the white smoke squirt out of the ferryboat s side. You see they was firing cannon over the water trying to make my carcass come to the top. I was pretty hungry but it warn t going to do for me to start a fire because they might see the smoke. So I set there and watched the cannon-smoke and listened to the boom. The river was a mile wide there and it always looks pretty on a summer morning -- so I was having a good enough time seeing them hunt for my remainders if I only had a bite to eat. Well then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there. So says I I ll keep a lookout and if any of them s floating around after me I ll give them a show. I changed to the Illinois edge of the island to see what luck I could have and I warn t disappointed. A big double loaf
