Sis never wrote to me about anybody coming but him. But it was a mistake, Aunt Sally. This ain't no healthy place for a stranger to come. I don't deny it, I was most putrified with astonishment when you give me that smack. It was a dreadful thing to see.
Human beings CAN be awful cruel to one another.
If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same.