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? ? ? ? The widow Douglas put Huck's money out at six per cent, and Judge Thatcher did the same with Tom's at Aunt Polly's request. Each lad had an income, now, that was simply prodigious- a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays. It was just what the minister got- no, it was what he was promised- he generally couldn't collect it. A dollar and a quarter a week would board, lodge and school a boy in those old simple days- and clothe him and wash him, too, for that matter.

? ? ? ? Judge Thatcher had conceived a great opinion of Tom. He said that no commonplace boy would ever have got his daughter out of the cave.


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