I am working on Vol III of MARK TWAIN AND HIS ILLUSTRATORS which will
include
Huck Finn.  I have two questions for Forum scholars:
1.  The caption "HE HAD A RAT!" in the Cal 03 and in Hearn it is in italics.
In CENTURY  1885, in Oxford, and in my personal ist edition it is not in
italics.  Is this an "issue  point" interesting to bibliographers on dating
the
editions?
2.  In the MARK TWAIN JOURNAL, Fall 1984, Richard Barksdale (p. 18) writes
that the   word nigger is used 160 times in Huck.  Kevin MacDonnell in
FIRSTS
counts 211 times.  What is the correct count?  Does it include the words on
the CONTENTS page    (12), the illustration page (13), the caption on p. 72
and the page heading on p. 284?    I am using the Oxford edition for
pagination.