"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
by Mark Twain

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     "Shucks, they don't ALL of 'em preach the same day--only ONE of 'em."

     "Well, then, what does the rest of 'em do?"

     "Oh, nothing much. Loll around, pass the plate--and one thing or another. But mainly they don't do nothing."

     "Well, then, what are they FOR?"

     "Why, they're for STYLE. Don't you know nothing?"

     "Well, I don't WANT to know no such foolishness as that. How is servants treated in England? Do they treat 'em better 'n we treat our niggers?"

 

     "NO! A servant ain't nobody there. They treat them worse than dogs."

     "Don't they give 'em holidays, the way we do, Christmas and New Year's week, and Fourth of July?"

     "Oh, just listen! A body could tell YOU hain't ever been to England by that. Why, Hare-l--why, Joanna, they never see a holiday from year's end to year's end; never go to the circus, nor theater, nor nigger shows, nor nowheres."

     "Nor church?"

     "Nor church."

     "But YOU always went to church."

 
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