 I think I get the last word on George because the other night I played Judge Walker and George played the lawyer for the big guys in 8 and I got the last word on George. I'm going to read from Huff Fing. First something that Mark Twain put at the front of his book. In this book a number of dialects are used to wit the Missouri Negro dialect, the extremist form of the Backwood Southwestern dialect, the Ordinary Pike County dialect, and four modified varieties of the less. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion or by guesswork but painstakingly and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. Well this is the fourth most banned book in American history, one month after publication in 1985. The Concord, Massachusetts Public Library, banned it as trash and only suitable for slums. In 1902 the Brooklyn Public Library banned it because of the language again. Huck not only itched but he scratched. He said sweat when he should have said perspiration. And just last year professor of Auburn University published a version of this book where the word nigger has changed to slave over 200 times. Totally changing the character of the book. What is lost by banning Huff Fing or changing its language? Well Jim, nigger Jim, is the noblest character in the book. In many ways it's moral hero. To lose the book is to lose the nobility of his friendship with Huff and his actions. Especially at the end when he risks his freedom to help the wounded Tom Sawyer. His moral turpitude lay in concealing the fact that Jim was already set free by Miss Watson's will. Then forcing him to undergo the trials of Tom's romantic version of escape. Jim and Huff's friendship, once it is fully established in the passage I'm going to read, would be lost. Especially friendship between a white southern boy and an African-American slave in 1885. Other things Mark Twain's clear-sighted vision of this America in the eight years it took him to write this book. The Granger for Jefferson Feud, Colonel Sherburn's cold-blooded shooting robot and the cowardice of the mob when it confronts Sherburn. The scurrilousness of the king and the duke. The brutality of Huff Fing. The uncomfortable piety of especially Miss Watson who's willing to sell Jim down the river and separate his family while she teaches Huff the Bible. The moral degradation of slavery and southern attitudes. When Huff tells in the person of so-called Tom Sawyer tells Mrs. Phillips there was an explosion aboard the river boat as he lies that brought him down river. Huck says we blow it out of cylinder head. She asked, good gracious anybody heard? Huck answers, no, I'm killing a nigger. She replies, well it's lucky because sometimes people do get hurt. This is just part of the book. Huck has undergoes a moral education in the story. When he's on the raft with Jim it's a kind of idyllic perfect world. Every time they go on land there's some kind of terrible thing happens. But before Huck really learns how to love Jim, Huck plays a big trick on him. They're going down the river, they're both escaping. Huck from his father, Jim from Miss Watson and they're looking for where the Ohio River comes in to the Mississippi so they can and they can tell because Ohio is clear in the Mississippi is muddy and they want to go up river on a steamboat because it's free. I mean that's the free state of Ohio and Jim would then be free. Huck already has problems of stealing the slave but there's more to this. They get separated in the fog and they miss the river and the raft gets covered with trash. Huck is off somewhere in a canoe. Jim is on the raft. They're hooping back and forth to each other trying to find each other and they don't. Finally Jim goes to sleep. Huck finally finds the raft and this is what happens. When I got to it Jim was sitting there with his head down between his knees asleep with his right arm hanging over the steering wheel. The other were was smashed off and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt so she had a rough time. I made fast and laid down on the Jim's nose on the raft and began to gap and stretch my fist out against Jim and says hello Jim have I been asleep why don't you stir me up. Goodness gracious is that you Huck and you ain't dead you ain't grounded you go back again it's too good for true honey it's too good for true let me look at you child let me feel with you. No you ain't dead you's back again alive and sound just the same old Huck the same old Huck thanks to goodness. What's the matter with the Jim? You been drinking? Drinking? Has I been drinking? Has I had a chance to be drinking? Well then what makes you talk so wild? How does I talk wild? How? I ain't you been talking about my coming back and all that stuff as if I've been going away. Huck Huck say you look me in the eye look me in the eye ain't you been going away? Going away why what in the nation do you mean I ain't been gone anywhere is where would I go to and I'll just skip a little bit. You ain't seen no Joe head looking here didn't the line pull loose on the raft go humming down the river and leave you in the canoe behind in the fog? Huck says what fog? Why deep fog? The fog has been around all night and didn't you whoop and didn't I whoop till we got mixed up in the islands and one of us got lost and the other one was just as good as lost because he didn't know where he was and didn't I bust up again and a lot of them islands and have a terrible time and most get drowned in now ain't that so lost ain't it you answer me that well says this is too many for me Jim I ain't seen no fog or no islands or no troubles or nothing I've been sat here talking with you all night till you went to sleep about 10 minutes ago and I reckon I'd done the same you couldn't have got drunk in that time so of course you've been dreaming. So Jim then tells Huck his part of the adventures and Jim looks around him on the raft and he sees all the stuff the trash the truck he calls it's on the raft and he starts to wonder what it's doing here. Oh well that's all interpreted well enough as far as it goes Jim I said but what does these things stand for? It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed board you could see them first grade now Jim looked at the trash and then looked at me and back trash again he'd got the dream fixed so strong in his head that he couldn't seem to shake it loose and get the facts back into its place again right away. When he did get the things straight around he looked at me steady without ever smiling and says what do they stand for? I was going to tell you when I got all wore out and working would be calling for you and went to sleep my heart was most broke because you was lost and I didn't care no more what becoming me or the red and when I wake up and find you back again all safe and sound the tears come and I could have got down on my knees and kiss your foot I said thank you and all you was thinking about was how you could make a fool of old Jim with a lie. That truck there is trash and trash is what people is that puts dirt on the head of their friends and makes them ashamed and he got up slow and walked to the week long and went in there without saying anything but that but that was enough it made me feel so mean I could almost kiss his foot together to take it back it was 15 minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger but I've done it and I weren't ever sorry for it afterwards neither I didn't do them no more mean tricks and I wouldn't have done that one if I had known it would make me feel that way