Read the following excerpt from chapter thirty-eight of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn.
"Then he took a look to see how me and Jim was getting along with the pens. It was most pesky
tedious hard work and slow, and didn't give my hands no show to get well of the sores, and we
didn't seem to make no headway, hardly."
Using context clues, what is the meaning of the word tedious as it is used in this passage?
Fun and exciting
Easy
Long and slow