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 ‘…showed first 75 words of 675 total…

…showed last 75 words of 675 total…the run-on sentence (next-to-last-paragraph) to both compel and confuse, and weaving in re-hashed Shakespeare with an absurdly comic modern twist. Actual influence was from a feud in Missouri involving a family named Darnell. Feud in HF parrallels feud written about in Life on the Mississippi, including location and similar details (HF, U. of California ed. with expl. footnotes) Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2, 5th ed., 1998, W. W. Norton and Co., New York ,( Chapters 17 and 18 ).