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Humor In Huck Finn

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Mark Twain is known to have humor. like when he was invited to a dinner for Oliver Wendell Holmes 70th old birthday to honor it. He was visiting when someone confronted him on plagiarizing. Mark looked confused he didn't know what the person was talking about. The person told him about the dedication he wrote on his book and then showed him the other persons book for there dedication on it and it was the same as Marks dedication word for word it was all they same. Mark didn't know that he copied everything from one book to another. Mark replied with this saying "for I knew one thing that a certain amount of pride always goes along with a teaspoonful of brains,and that this pride protects a man from deliberately stealing other people's ideas.

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