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Dreams of a Kitten
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boy, I stayed so I can be part of Tom Sawyer's gang. My father,
‘Pap,’ an abusive alcoholic, tried to appropriate my fortune.
When this failed, Pap imprisoned me in a remote cabin.
After a delirium tremens crisis in which Pap tried to kill me, I
faked my own murder and settled on Jackson's Island, where I
reunited with Miss Watson's slave Jim, who had run away after
overhearing she was planning to sell him. Jim and I decided to
go down the Mississippi River to Cairo, in the free state of
Illinois. After a flood, we found a timber raft and a house
floating downstream. Inside the house, Jim found a man who was
shot to death but he prevented me from seeing. I sneaked into
town and discovered there is a reward for Jim's capture and he
is suspected of killing me. Jim and I fled on our raft.