Main Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
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Author: Twain, Mark
First Published: 1884
Publisher Used for Citing: Project Gutenberg
Type: Fiction
Period: 19th Century

Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.


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