I am assuming that the "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd." in Chapter 17
of HF is a satire on someone.  Huck says, "If Emmeline Grangerford could
make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain't no telling what
she could a done by-and-by.  Buck said she could rattle off poetry like
nothing.  She didn't ever have to stop to think."  This last sentence is,
of course, obvious from the poem.  Can someone tell me who this barb is
directed toward?

Tom in Tokyo
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