It don’t make no difference how foolish it is, it’s the right way- and it’s the regular way….They always dig out with a case-knife- and not through dirt,..it’s through solid rock. And it took them weeks and weeks and weeks, and for ever and ever. (Twain 268)
In the progress to free Jim from the his second capture because the Duke and the Dauphin sold him, Tom gives ton of reasons to delay