Kinda Like Huck
Kinda like Huck , this here’s ‘bout true…some stretchin’, but mostly true. Now I don’t know Huck Finn or Mr. Twain personal, but I know ‘bout ‘em. There’s some thangs you oughta know ‘bout the feud he told ‘bout in his story what might put some more paint on the way you picture it. Mr. Twain, he musta hatched up the feud idee off’n the Hatfields and McCoys outta West Virginia ‘bout the same time as he was writin’ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A hillbilly rivalry turn’t into a genu-wine ‘merican legend ‘cause it was wrote up in the newspapers all the time. Near ‘bout any magazine or paper you could name run a story ‘bout soon as gettin’ wind of one thing or ‘nuther outta them hills. Why, people out in California could read ‘bout it in the San Francisco Examiner and folks in New York could pick up The World an’ likely as not find a story on the Hatfield / McCoy business. Sho, jus’ soon as them paper-hawkers hear’d s’ much as a squabble or peep, it’d git put to pencil that day, an’ out in print the next! There’s a reporter come down from some paper in Philly an' tal
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Approximate Word count = 740
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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