In reply to Ron Allan's query re "He preached for nothing and it was worth
it":
        This is Huck Finn's comment about Tom Sawyer's uncle Silas Phelps in
chapter 33 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

"He was the innocentest best old soul I ever see. But it warn't surprising;
because he warn't only just a farmer, he was a preacher, too, and had a
little one-horse log church down back of the plantation, which he built it
himself at his own expense, for  a church and school house, and never
charged nothing for this preaching, and it was worth it, too. There was
plenty other farmer-preachers like that, and done the same way, down South."

                                                Lin Salamo
                                                Mark Twain Papers and Project
                                                UCBerkeley





At 05:21 PM 3/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anybody know if Mark Twain said this, and if so, where?
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