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deck passage 甲板艙位〔最廉價的艙位〕,統艙。

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They all asked me questions , and i told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of arkansaw , and my sister mary ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more , and bill went to hunt them and he warn t heard of no more , and tom and mort died , and then there warn t nobody but just me and pap left , and he was just trimmed down to nothing , on account of his troubles ; so when he died i took what there was left , because the farm didn t belong to us , and started up the river , deck passage , and fell overboard ; and that was how i come to be here 他們都問我一些問題。我告訴他們說,我爸爸我和一家人是怎樣在阿肯色州南頭一個小農莊上的我姐姐瑪麗安怎樣出走,結了婚,從此杳無音訊比爾怎樣出去四處尋找他們,連自己也從此沒有下落湯姆和摩爾怎樣也死了除了我和我爸爸,我們這一家就沒有留下別的人了爸爸磨難重重,也窮得精光。所以等他一死,既然莊子不屬于我們所有,我就把剩下的一點點東西帶著走,打了統艙往上游去,可又掉到了水里,這才投奔到了這里。

That warn t enough to take us fourteen hundred mile , deck passage nor no other way 靠這點兒錢,要走一千四百英里地,不論是買輪船的統艙票,或是別的什么辦法,都是辦不到的。