Michael (if I may), Could Pap Finn be seen as symbolically representing the worst of the KKK thinking? Twain's descriptions of him, at least, capture an image that is to evolve a little later. I am especially thinking about chapter five of _HF_, when pap surprises Huck with his appearance behind long and tangled hair, "and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines." And Twain's insistence on the whiteness of pap's face: "it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl." And Colonel Sherburn's insight into the "Southern fashion" of lynching in the dark in Chapter 22 seems to suggest at least one aspect of the Klan's style: "and when they come they'll bring their masks." I know this is not the direct evidence you needed, but I just thought Twain might be pointing indirectly at a certain part of the Southern mentality and perhaps to particular actions. ---Jason Horn