- Huckleberry Finn: Come on, Doc, hop in, I'll take you there.
- Doctor: Two of us in that dinky old thing? I know doctors are supposed to be a bit doddy, but we're not suicidal.
- Huckleberry Finn: Aw, come on, Doc. Why, on the way over it took three of us.
- Doctor: Three of you?
- Huckleberry Finn: Sure, Sid, me and Ji-... and our guns, that's what I meant.
- Doctor: Still, I probably weigh more than your brother and your guns. Substancially more, I'm afraid.
- Huckleberry Finn: [narrating] Beside, Tom and I had been tellin' so many fibs to so many people, I knew we had to get our stories straightened around or we'd be plum swallowed up in our own lies.
- Tom Sawyer: I'm tellin' the truth, auntie, we set Jim free and we done it plum elegant, too. It was an awful hard job, diggin' that tunnel and hookin' them dresses and things.
- Aunt Sally: [downhearted] Mercy, sick...