Doug Pensinger wrote:In Chapter 1, I Discover Moses and the Bullrushers, Huck is stuck living with a pair of old maids, The Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson:
Julia Thompson wrote:
Personally, I'd much rather be with Gandhi than Hitler.You been reading Huck Finn?
Julia
Not lately. Why? This was just my gut reaction to the whole thing when I was exposed to that argument (which was the last straw that put the guy on the "OK, not really my friend" list), and I don't think I'd read Huck Finn at that point.
"Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry"; and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry - set up straight"; and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry - why don't you try to behave?" Then she told me all about the bad place and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said, said she wouldn't say it for the whole world, she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble and wouldn't do no good."
8^)
Doug
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