Barnes and Noble sale

Happy to see Barnes and Noble having a half-price clearance sale because I wanted to buy some classic books for Mr. B. anyway, and thus I saved a bunch of money on unabridged versions of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Story of King Arthur and His Knights. They’re all good. I remember them from my own childhood and, of course, actually took a  college course on Mark Twain. So I especially remember Tom Sawyer’s great trick of getting his friends to not only willingly but also happily perform for him the odious task to which he’d been set: i.e., whitewashing a fence.