'THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN'

摘要

About once a year some piouspublic library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always-that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals.Two or three years ago I was near by when one of these banishments was decreed and advertised, and I went over and asked the librarian about it, and he said yes, Huck was banished for lying. I asked,"Is there nothing else against him?""No, I think not."