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...book which drew such hot blood from one of the stoniest critics of the day was, on the face of it, the simple account of how a boy floated down the "Father of Waters" on a raft in the middle of the last century, and of the adventures he met with on the way. The story is told in the first person, by the boy himself, in a lingo that rolls fresh and sweet off his tongue-the real true talk of Missouri a hundred years ago. Eliot calls the author's style "a new discovery in the English...
...digs. But at one point his voice dropped into solemnity and he said: "These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or on my wife, or on my sons-no, not content with that-they now include my little dog Fala." The audience roared; even the stoniest of Republican faces around U.S. radios cracked into a smile...