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? > > Ron > > Ron Allan > Assistant to the Dean for > Research and Data Services > Office of Student Financial Services > Georgetown University > Washington, DC 20057 > >1 **********************************************************= >****** > * Internet: [log in to unmask] * > * Phone: 202-687-8967 = > * > * Fax: 202-687-6542 = > * > * "Sara Murphy was right." = > * > ***********************************************************= >****** > >