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 that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.” Widow Douglas “learned” Huck from EXODUS 2:1-10, the Biblical account of Moses’ birth and his mother’s attempt to save her child’s life by placing him in “an ark of bulrushes” and laying it “in the reeds by the river’s bank” anticipating his discovery and hoping for his salvation.