Miss Watson Quotes

Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn’t think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 1. Miss Watson joins in the mission to civilize Huck and teaches him all about Heaven. She believes Huck’s friend Tom is destined for Hell. But Huck likes Tom so much that he is happy to be with him there.

Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks. I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn’t make it work. By and by, one day, I asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn’t make it out no way.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 3. Miss Watson attempts to instil religion into Huck. But she loses all credibility with him when she explains the benefits of praying and he fails to get what he prayed for.
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