Huck & Moses and the Bullrushers

[Michael Bailey]

alice (remember alice?) wrote:
>
>   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.
>

I was thinking maybe she cast herself as the Pharoah's daughter and
Huck as Moses, or had a notion to do so, but was disappointed.


couldn't find the article, though

> see
> Huckleberry Finn: A Mississippi Moses
> Billy G. Collins
> The Journal of Narrative Technique
> Vol. 5, No. 2 (May, 1975), pp. 86-104



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