…scam, the one that led to him meeting Huck and Jim. While explaining why he was running away from a mob, he said:
> Well, I’d ben a-runnin’ a little temperance revival thar, ’bout a week, and was the pet of the women-folks, big and little, for I was makin’ it mighty warm for the rummies, I tell you, and takin’ as much as five or six dollars a night—ten cents a head, children and ni**ers free—and business a growin’ all the time; when somehow or another a little report got around, last night, that I had a way of puttin’ in my time with a private jug, on the sly (chapter 19 (XIX)).
I’ve already used a dictionary to look up all the words I didn’t know, but I’m still not sure what scam the alleged king was running. Can someone help?
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