Thanks much, guys.  I heard the comment for years at the Wednesday Luncheon of a French church I belonged to here in Washington, given as an excuse by the pastor for charging for the luncheon.  But he never told us it came form Huck Finn.

                                          Ron

>>> Jeff Steinbrink <[log in to unmask]> 03/16 9:18 AM >>>
Dear Ron Allen,

        It's in Chapter 33 of Huck Finn--if you've got the California 
paperback, on p. 285.  Huck says of Silas Phelps, "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 his preaching, and it was worth it, too."
        Best to you--

Jeff Steinbrink