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I need to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn again. Mark Twain had a gift.
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Mark Twain was the greatest!!!!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Bob, back then "stuff". and "truck" was dirty words.
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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I need to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn again. Mark Twain had a gift. Read it here-http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
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Never read it.
I saved my leisure time for Nova and the McNeil Lerher news hour.
I am MAGA.
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Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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Never read them in school, so I got Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on audio books this spring to listen to while working.
Fantastic stuff.
Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
Ecc 10:2
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Loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Read both several times.
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I have Huck Finn on audiobook. One time when taking the family on a cross-country road trip I thought it would be fun to let the kids listen to it. After about 2 minutes I was trying to find the off button. I can't reconcile the language with the kids' schooling. It's a shame because I love Mark Twain but in today's culture I'm afraid to have my kids hear it! Maybe when they are older but not yet for my grade schoolers. I recall reading Tom Sawyer in grade school or middle school.
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Even in his day Twain, yes his name was Mark Clemens, Twain is shorter, took a lot of flack for the lack of what is now political correctness.
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Even in his day Twain, yes his name was Mark Clemens, Twain is shorter, took a lot of flack for the lack of what is now political correctness. Full name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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Thank you Keith, no coffee yet this morning. 
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Kaywoodie was one of his runnin' buddies. 
--- CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE --- A Magic Time To Be An Illegal In America---
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Even in his day Twain, yes his name was Mark Clemens, Twain is shorter, took a lot of flack for the lack of what is now political correctness. His name was SAM Clemens. Mark twain is a navigational term meaning 2 fathoms, or 12' of water, the shallowest considered save for navigation. Clemens was a Mississippi river boat captain and he adopted the term for his pen name.
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Twain was a choir boy compared to the language in what passes for "music" these days.
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Sawyer and Finn were poor boys who spoke the common language of the people at the time. Twain just wrote like people talked. That horribly obscene word nygger was a common word, used by everyone at the time.
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Thank you Keith, no coffee yet this morning. Even in his day Twain, yes his name was Mark Clemens, Twain is shorter, took a lot of flack for the lack of what is now political correctness. Full name was Samuel Langhorne Clemensi No (i) at the end of Clemens either. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/d1xSz945/image.jpg)
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That was this summers reading for my 5th grader, got a 95 on his book report of it
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