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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

CHAPTER XXV
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And when he done it the third time he says: "I say orgies, not because it's the common term, because it ain't -- obsequies bein' the common term--but because orgies is the right term.
Obsequies ain't used in England no more now--it's gone out.

We say orgies now in England.

Orgies is better, because it means the thing you're after more exact.

It's a word that's made up out'n the Greek ORGO, outside, open, abroad; and the Hebrew JEESUM, to plant, cover up; hence inTER.

So, you see, funeral orgies is an open er public funeral." He was the WORST I ever struck.


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