Eulogy For The Story Of Huckleberry Finn

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Not long ago, a boy strutted into a schoolhouse with the smuggest face you would ever get the chance to see. He did just that very strut right up to Mr. Dobbins, the schoolmaster, and announced that he had been hanging out with Huckleberry Finn, therefore skipping school. That boy was Tom Sawyer, and that boy will be remembered as exactly what he was: an imaginative, good-hearted boy with a degree of mischief that led to his untimely demise. As a good friend of Tom’s, I can confirm that his cleverness was undoubtedly a blessing and a curse. While he could get you out of trouble, chances are he’d weasel himself out and leave you for the dogs at the flip of a coin. But, despite his little quirks that made him predictably unpredictable, his

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