Miss Watson, one of mother figures in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is the strict, old, obnoxious sister of Huck's main guardian, the Widow Douglas. Joining in the mission to civilize Huck, she uses a much more severe approach. Huck describes one of his encounters with her - "Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now, with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say,"Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry- set up strait;" and pretty soon she would say,"Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckle