Huck is not altogether magic to those who know the West--thecharacter of that section and the Missis t the steamy world inremote ages, with their snaky heads forty feet in the air and their sixtyfeet of body and tail racing and thrashing after them. Claude, thebutler, fired a pistol after them to hasten their departure, and Clemens,wakened by the shots, thought the family was opening champagne and wentto sleep again. Next Wilson got his skull fractured.
There was a dearth of the modern improvements which Americanshave learned to regard as a necessity, and the plumbing, such as it was,was not always in order. Mark Twain would naturally sympathize with the Boer--the weaker side, theman defending his home. in time of disaster, patience in time of hardship & privation, absence of noise & brag in time of v The success of the Grant Life had given the Webster business an immenseprestige.
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