In reply to Ron Allen's question about the near-quotation, "He preached for nothing and it was worth it," here's the exact quotation and the paragraph it appears in (Chapter 33 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Oxford Mark Twain Edition): That's all he said. 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 his preaching, and it was worth it, too. There was plenty other farmer-preachers like that, and done the same way, down South. --Jim Leonard