Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1 minute clip.
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after supper, she got out her book and learned me how about moses and the bull rushers? And I was in a sweat to find out all about him. But by and by she let it out that moses had been dead a considerable long time. So then I didn't care no more about him because I don't take no stock in dead people. Pretty soon. I wanted to smoke and ask the waiter to let me, but she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean and I must try to not do it anymore. That is just the way with some people, they get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was bothering about moses, which was no kin to her and no use to anybody being gone. You see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff to. Of course that was all right, because she'd done it herself.