Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet;
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
to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.