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Updated: June 21, 2025
Poor, vagrant Ben Blankenship, hiding his runaway negro in an Illinois swamp, could not dream that his humanity would one day supply the moral episode for an immortal book! As literature, the story of "Huck Finn" holds a higher place than that of "Tom Sawyer."
Once "Huck" Blankenship had the skin of a 'coon he had captured, and offered to sell it to raise capital. At Selms's store, on Wild Cat Corner, the 'coon-skin would bring ten cents. But this was not enough. The boys thought of a plan to make it bring more. Selms's back window was open, and the place where he kept his pelts was pretty handy.
Mark Twain's own boy life in the little drowsy town of Hannibal, with John Briggs and Tom Blankenship their adventures in and about the cave and river made perfect material. The story is full of pure delight. The camp on the island is a picture of boy heaven. No boy that reads it but longs for the woods and a camp-fire and some bacon strips in the frying-pan.
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