The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a con­sid­er­able long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, be­cause I don’t take no stock in dead peo­ple.

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t. She said it was a mean prac­tice and wasn’t clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some peo­ple. They get down on a thing when they don’t know noth­ing about it. Here she was a-both­er­ing about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to any­body, be­ing gone, you see, yet find­ing a power of fault with me for do­ing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, be­cause she done it her­self.

After sup­per she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bul­rush­ers, and I was in a