Sorry fomisspelling that's. That's interestingļ¼Thank you very much! ---Original--- From: "cchimi"<[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2023 22:57 PM To: "TWAIN-L"<[log in to unmask]>; Subject: Re: sucking cne heads Only a guess but I read "cane" as "sugar cane" and "cane heads" as some sort of candy. But I think it more likely that cane means walking stick. Dweebish sorts of fellows are often described in older literature as sitting and sucking the heads of their canes as a baby does its pacifier. I don't remember the context here, but the latter seems to fit the case. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum On Behalf Of ben Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2023 10:02 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: sucking cne heads I'm reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in chapter 5 it read "...for they had stood in the vestibule sucking their cane heads, a circling wall of oiled and simpering admirers...", I don't quite understand what the young men are doing, is "sucking their cane heads " a metaphor? Can someone explain it? Tks