In chapter 14, Huck and Jim begin talking “about kings and dukes and earls and such” when the conversation turns to focus on King Solomon: Jim: …dey say Sollermun de wises’ man dat ever live’. I doan’ take no stock in dat… Huck: Well, but he was the wisest man, anyway; because the widow she […]
An Ark of Bulrushes
In chapter one, as Huck tells us about his time living with the Widow Douglas, he recalls one evening when, “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out […]