[Banter] Literary reference, Huck Finn

["David H Ritterskamp" <dhritter@dpcmail.dukepower.com>]

Poster: "David H Ritterskamp" <dhritter@dpcmail.dukepower.com>

     [WARNING:  The following is a humorous continuation of the previous 
     thread.  Those of you without a sense of humor may skip the message.]
     
     since somebody asked... and somebody else tried to clarify & didn't 
     get the whole story:
     [*HARUMPH* assumes professorial air]
     
     > (For an example of 
     > how this works, remember the scene in ... was it Tom Sawyer or Huck 
     Finn? 
     > . when a boy dressed as a girl was "caught out" by how he moved when 
     > something was dropped in his lap.
     
     I think it was Huck and he was trying to thread a needle.
     
     
     
     [There were basically three things that the lady did to Huck to draw 
     him out, as it were: [whether she was deliberately trying to draw him 
     out or not, I don't remember; but it would seem to be the case.]
     
     1.  She made him try to thread a needle, and he threaded it by holding 
     the thread still and pushing the needle at it, instead of the other 
     way around, like a girl "would have done it."
     
     2.  She threw him a lump of lead to throw at mice, and he caught it in 
     the lap of his dress by either opening his legs outward to catch the 
     lead, or by closing his legs to let the skirt do the work, can't 
     remember which.  Whichever, it wasn't "the way a girl would do it."
     
     3.  She told him to throw the lead at a rat, and he did so, which gave 
     him away for sure, since he overhanded it instead of forearming it, 
     "the way a girl would."
     
     There.  Aren't you glad you asked?  Now you can sleep well tonight 
     knowing that you've contributed to the education of a bunch of people.
     
     You there, in the back, I hope you're not sleeping...there'll be a 
     quiz later.
     
     Hell, if it'd been me, I'd have just asked him if he was lost or 
     not...as we all know, males are incapable of admitting this, whereas 
     females are perfectly capable of stopping and asking directions...
     
     Tongue firmly in cheek,
     [but the Huck Finn info is accurate as far as it goes]
     Ld. Jonathan Blackbow
     House O'Shannon

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