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Dear Journal: Old Muck Potter's Voice
Jonathan Monaco
Ms. Hanko
English I CP
11 October 2016 Unit Task 2
Dear Journal, Last night I decided to sneak out of bed after being woken up by a crash from Aunt Polly’s room and someone talking outside. I snuck outside through my window and saw Huck. We started talking and eventually decided to go the graveyard. When we approached the graveyard we heard voices. At first we thought these voices were devils, until we saw Muck Potter. “They’re humans! One of ‘em is, anyway. One of ‘em’s old Muck Potter’s voice.”(Twain,52) We were able to figure out the other two voices were Dr.Robinson and Injun Joe. Eventually we figured out they were trying to dig up a grave. After the dirty work was done Injun Joe started to complain
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