A man so dastardly that he finds a way to sell Harold into serving as a soldier for the Union. Figg and his older brother Harold have made the best of living with their nasty ward and uncle Squinton Leach. When you’re stuck living with a scoundrel there’s nothing for it but to make the best of things. And the kid that’s single-handedly going to win the Civil War, whether he intends to or not. Credit Rodman Philbrick then with coming up with a fellow that’s so far North that to go any farther he’d have to be Canadian. They are born below the Mason-Dixon line and are capable of great feats of derring-do, all the while escaping their own much complicated shenanigans. Now the best tellers of untrue tales often come from Southern soil. Is there any more classic character you can name? Whether it’s The Artful Dodger, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Great Brain or Soup from the Soup books, there is always room in the canon for just one more boy fibber (girl fibbers are not yet appearing the same numbers, I’m afraid).
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