almost good enough to be worthy of mention in the same breath with
the two greatest adventure stories--dollar-sized dime novels is
what they really are--that ever were written; written, both of
them, by sure-enough writing men, who, I'm sure, must have based
their moods and their modes upon the memories of the dime novels
which they, they in their turn, read when they were boys of your
age.

"I refer, my son, to a book called Huckleberry Finn, and to a
book called Treasure Island."