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Sorry fomisspelling that's. That's interestingļ¼Thank you very much!
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From: "cchimi"<[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2023 22:57 PM
To: "TWAIN-L"<[log in to unmask]>;
Subject: Re: sucking cne heads
Only a guess but I read "cane" as "sugar cane" and "cane heads" as some sort of candy. But I think it more likely that cane means walking stick. Dweebish sorts of fellows are often described in older literature as sitting and sucking the heads of their canes as a baby does its pacifier.
I don't remember the context here, but the latter seems to fit the case.
Carl
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From: Mark Twain Forum On Behalf Of ben
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2023 10:02 AM
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Subject: sucking cne heads
I'm reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in chapter 5 it read "...for they had stood in the vestibule sucking their cane heads, a circling wall of oiled and simpering admirers...", I don't quite understand what the young men are doing, is "sucking their cane heads " a metaphor? Can someone explain it?
Tks
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