>I'm amazed at the number of people on this list who are willing to take >Mark Twain's word for sources such as for his pen name and for Huck Finn. >He's the last person I would expect to give the whole story, even in his >own journals. The last? Noted...and as soon as I hear of a better authority, I'll gladly give up on my current source. ;-) Stanton Nesbit