
occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest
those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn
is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an
individual -- he is a combination of the characteristics of
three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the
composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent
among children and slaves in the West at the period of this
story -- that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
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