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Fuqua, Archibald (Arch) (b. 1833?), Clemens’s classmate in Dawson’s school, was one of six children of Mary Ann and Nathaniel Fuqua, a tobacco merchant. In his autobiography Clemens remembered envying young Arch’s “great gift”—his ability to crack his big toe with a snap audible at thirty yards (AD, 8 Mar 1906, CU-MARK, in MTA, 2:180). In “Boy’s Manuscript” (12–13) Arch is Archy Thompson, the boy who sells a louse to William Bowen (Marion Census 1850, 318; Marion Census 1860, 750–51; Wecter 1952, 142).
