The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Name the 2 things Col. Sherburn compares the mob at his house to

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"a hundred masked cowards."

"COWARDS."

An army..........

"The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is—a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness. Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole."