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.