Passage:
"'No, you won't. Set down and stay where you are. I ain't going to hurt you, and I ain't going to tell on you, nuther. You just tell me your secret, and trust me. I'll keep it; and what's more, I'll help you. So'll my old man, if you want him to. You see, you're a runaway 'prentice--that's all. It ain't anything. There ain't any harm in it. You've been treated bad, and you made up your mind to cut. Bless you, child, I wouldn't tell on you. Tell me all about it, now--that's a good boy.'"
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Comments and Response:
Maybe it is because of all the stranger danger awareness programs I have been to but I get an uneasy feeling from the lady talking. She kind of sends the wrong vibe to me because of the things she said like "I ain't going to hurt you..." even though she said that it kind of makes me believe that she will. Also nobody is just going to go right out and say that they are going to hurt a person that they just met to them in front of them, they have to bait them in first with "milk and cookies" or things to sweeten the deal. I could be completely wrong however and that she is being sincerely honest and she is not trying to hurt Huck Finn and protect him. It seems that during the time that this was written that the people were more willing to help a person in need.
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