Miss Watsons Boy

Miss Watson, one of mother figures in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is the strict, old, obnoxious sister of Huck's main guardian, the Widow. Joining in the mission to civilize Huck, she uses a much more severe approach. Huck describes one of his encounters with her - "Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now, with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say,"Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry- set up strait;" and pretty soon she would say,"Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry- Why don't you behave?"(3). She also tries to make him dress in a more respectable way - "Well, I got a good going-over in the morning, from old Miss Watson,on the account of my clothes;"(13). Her constant nagging eventually leads to Huck wanting to runaway again, a sentiment we begin to see when he complains -"Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome"(4).

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"Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry"; and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight"; and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry—why don't you try to behave?"

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