Tom Sawyer and the 'spunk-water'!

Dry Gulch Pete

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Feb 14, 2011, 6:54:33 AM2/14/11

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A cure for warts you find in the woods'
Very interesting - haven't come across spunk-water before.

UK Nick DGP

Peter Duncanson (BrE)

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Feb 14, 2011, 8:18:16 AM2/14/11

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According to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spunk-Water

Spunk-water (sometimes referred to as "stump water") is rainwater
found lying in the open woods within the wood hollow of a rotten
tree trunk, stump, or root cradle. It was made more or less famous
in the writings of Mark Twain - "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer /
Chapter #6; whereas, Tom's favorite mystical superstition tapped
into old folkloric remedies for curing warts as the application of
"stump-water" and that was better than Huck's remedy of flinging a
"dead cat" in a graveyard at midnight, to rid oneself of this common
viral affliction.

...Jam your hand in and say...Barley-corn, Barly corn, Injun
meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts!" [1]

[1] http://www.twainquotes.com/Warts.html

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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

Dry Gulch Pete

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Feb 14, 2011, 9:01:20 AM2/14/11

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"Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote in message
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LOL - highly amusing - I decided not to go into too much of a description or
Bulgarian Pat (a groovy cat) would tell me my writing was 'not wonderful'!

Thanks, Peter. :-)

UK Nick DGP

Steve Hayes

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Feb 14, 2011, 12:22:45 PM2/14/11

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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:54:33 -0000, "Dry Gulch Pete"
<paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:

>A cure for warts you find in the woods'
>Very interesting - haven't come across spunk-water before.

You must be a female virgin.

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Dry Gulch Pete

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Feb 14, 2011, 4:11:18 PM2/14/11

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"Steve Hayes" <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:54:33 -0000, "Dry Gulch Pete"
> <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>>A cure for warts you find in the woods'
>>Very interesting - haven't come across spunk-water before.
>
> You must be a female virgin.
>
>
> --

Naughty boy! :-)

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Patok

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Feb 15, 2011, 4:17:53 PM2/15/11

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Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
> "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote in message

>> "Dry Gulch Pete" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A cure for warts you find in the woods'
>>> Very interesting - haven't come across spunk-water before.
>>>
>>> <from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel L. Clemens>
>>

>> ...Jam your hand in and say...Barley-corn, Barly corn, Injun
>> meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts!" [1]
>

> LOL - highly amusing - I decided not to go into too much of a description or
> Bulgarian Pat (a groovy cat) would tell me my writing was 'not wonderful'!

Well, it wouldn't, would it be, now? BTW, FYI, "patok" means drake - the
male duck. Think Le Canard enchaîné.

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Dry Gulch Pete

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Feb 15, 2011, 9:39:30 PM2/15/11

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"Patok" <crazy.d...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
>> "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote in message
>>> "Dry Gulch Pete" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A cure for warts you find in the woods'
>>>> Very interesting - haven't come across spunk-water before.
>>>>
>>>> <from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel L. Clemens>
>>>
>>> ...Jam your hand in and say...Barley-corn, Barly corn, Injun
>>> meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts!" [1]
>>
>> LOL - highly amusing - I decided not to go into too much of a description
>> or Bulgarian Pat (a groovy cat) would tell me my writing was 'not
>> wonderful'!
>
> Well, it wouldn't, would it be, now?

<g>

BTW, FYI, "patok" means drake - the

> male duck. Think Le Canard encha�n�.
>
> --

Duck chains?

UK Nick DGP

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Don Phillipson

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<agarwal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> IT does not means cure to warts.all comments written above r wrong.tom
> called huckleberry spunk water to tease him

Your question is not clear. Spunk water is a puddle atop a
tree stump (commonly found in newly cleared forest land.)
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Don Phillipson
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Ainslie.Hut...@k12.friscoisd.org

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Jan 30, 2018, 2:38:56 PM1/30/18

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excuse me?

Peter Duncanson [BrE]

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Jan 30, 2018, 3:57:30 PM1/30/18

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:38:54 -0800 (PST),
Ainslie.Hut...@k12.friscoisd.org wrote:

>excuse me?

From the OED:

spunk-water n. U.S. rain-water that collects in hollow tree-stumps,
popularly thought to be a cure for warts.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer vi. 65 Talk about trying
to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame-fool way as that!
1949 Time 29 Aug. 7/2 Spunk-water, spunk-water, wash away my
warts!