The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Explain what is meant by “there warn’t no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell.” CH 39-end

Explain what is meant by “there warn’t no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell.”

CH 39-end

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Tom and Huck catch some garter snakes and put them in a bag, but after dinner they discover all the snakes escaped in the house. Huck remarks that there was no shortage of snakes in the house for quite a while after that.

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