TABLE OF CONTENTS
NOTICE
EXPLANATORY
THE AUTHOR.
CHAPTER I.
Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with...
I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out...
CHAPTER II.
As soon as Tom was back we cut along the...
"Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it...
"Ransomed? What's that?"
I clumb up the shed and crept into my window...
CHAPTER III.
We played robber now and then about a month, and...
"Well," I says, "s'pose we got some genies to help...
CHAPTER IV.
"No, sir," I says; "is there some for me?"
Jim put the quarter under the hair-ball, and got down...
CHAPTER V.
He took up a little blue and yaller picture of...
When he got out the new judge said he was...
CHAPTER VI.
But by and by pap got too handy with his...
The old man made me go to the skiff and...
"Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. Why, looky...
After supper pap took the jug, and said he had...
So he dozed off pretty soon. By and by I...
CHAPTER VII.
While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both...
It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I...
I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed...
I was away below the ferry now. I rose up,...
CHAPTER VIII.
I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke,...
And so for three days and nights. No difference--just the...
"We better camp here if we can find a good...
"It's good daylight. Le's get breakfast. Make up your camp...
"I tuck out en shin down de hill, en 'spec...
"And so you ain't had no meat nor bread to...
"No, I didn't lose it all. I on'y los' 'bout...
CHAPTER IX.
"Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to...
I didn't look at him at all. Jim throwed some...
CHAPTER X.
Jim was laid up for four days and nights. Then...
I started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just...
CHAPTER XI.
"Yes, I reckon so, 'm. I don't see nothing in...
"Oh, that's the way of it?"
"Goshen, child? This ain't Goshen. This is St. Petersburg. Goshen's...
Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for...
CHAPTER XII.
This second night we run between seven and eight hours,...
Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and...
By this time Jim was gone for the raft. I...
"So'm I," says Packard, very quiet.
CHAPTER XIII.
"The first light we see we'll land a hundred yards...
I broke in and says:
Well, before long here comes the wreck, dim and dusky,...
CHAPTER XIV.
"Well, but he WAS the wisest man, anyway; because the...
"Dat's good! But he'll be pooty lonesome--dey ain' no kings...
DAT!"
CHAPTER XV.
The whooping went on, and in about a minute I...
It was a monstrous big river here, with the tallest...
"Dad fetch it, how is I gwyne to dream all...
Then he got up slow and walked to the wigwam,...
CHAPTER XVI.
I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I...
"Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white...
"Hold on, Parker," says the other man, "here's a twenty...
I paddled to the raft. Jim was awful disappointed, but...
I dived--and I aimed to find the bottom, too, for...
CHAPTER XVII.
"Why, bless you, Saul, the poor thing's as wet as...
"Can you spell, Buck?"
They had pictures hung on the walls--mainly Washingtons and Lafayettes,...
This young girl kept a scrap-book when she was alive,...
ODE TO STEPHEN DOWLING BOTS, DEC'D
It was a double house, and the big open place...
CHAPTER XVIII.
Then there was Miss Charlotte; she was twenty-five, and tall...
Soon as I could get Buck down by the corn-cribs...
Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile,...
I went off down to the river, studying over this...
"Why, how did you get hold of the raft again,...
There was four or five men cavorting around on their...
I stayed in the tree till it begun to get...
CHAPTER XIX.
"No; spirits wouldn't say, 'Dern the dern fog.'"
"Don't you do it. I don't hear the dogs and...
"Jour printer by trade; do a little in patent medicines;...
Well, that was all easy, so we done it. All...
The duke done it, and Jim and me was pretty...
CHAPTER XX.
We got away as soon as it was good and...
"But the histrionic muse is the darling. Have you ever...
We got there in about a half an hour fairly...
GLORY HALLELUJAH!)
The duke was thinking HE'D been doing pretty well till...
"No," I says, "I reckon not."
CHAPTER XXI.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare...
Richard III.............Mr. Garrick Richmond................Mr. Kean
"Here, gimme the CHAW, and you take the PLUG."
He was drunk, and weaving about in his saddle; he...
"Boggs!"
Well, by and by somebody said Sherburn ought to be...
CHAPTER XXII.
"You didn't want to come. The average man don't like...
Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing...
Well, that night we had OUR show; but there warn't...
THE KING'S CAMELEOPARD, OR THE ROYAL NONESUCH ! ! !...
LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The third night the house was crammed again--and they warn't...
"But dis one do SMELL so like de nation, Huck."
CHAPTER XXIV.
"Seein' how I'm dressed, I reckon maybe I better arrive...
"Why do you reckon Harvey don't come? Wher' does he...
"Poor things! to be left alone in the cold world...
"If gentlemen kin afford to pay a dollar a mile...
CHAPTER XXV.
And the minute the words were out of his mouth...
The duke allowed it did. They pawed the yaller-boys, and...
Mary Jane she went for him, Susan and the hare-lip...
"I was your father's friend, and I'm your friend; and...
CHAPTER XXVI.
"Why, how you talk--Sheffield ain't on the sea."
"Honest injun, now, hain't you been telling me a lot...
So, thinks I, I'll go and search them rooms. Upstairs...
Well, the king he talked him blind; so at last...
CHAPTER XXVII.
Then the people begun to flock in, and the beats...
Well, the funeral sermon was very good, but pison long...
The thing made a big stir in the town, too,...
The king whirls on me and rips out:
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Then I come back and set down again, and says:
"Good," she says, "I'll do it."
"Gone to see a friend is all right, but I...
Well, Mary Jane she lit out the back way, I...
"Shucks, and stay fooling around here when we could all...
CHAPTER XXIX.
THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and...
CIRCUMSTANCES!"
"Gentlemen, I wish the money was there, for I ain't...
"That 'll fix it. I'll take the order and send...
"Mf! It's a VERY tough question, AIN'T it! YES, sir,...
When they got there they swarmed into the graveyard and...
"Out with you, Jim, and set her loose! Glory be...
CHAPTER XXX.
The duke bristles up now, and says:
CHAPTER XXXI.
"Set her loose, Jim! we're all right now!"
It made me shiver. And I about made up my...
HUCK FINN.
Then I struck up the road, and when I passed...
I had considerable money, so I give him ten cents,...
CHAPTER XXXII.
And behind the woman comes a little nigger girl and...
"No, I didn't see nobody, Aunt Sally. The boat landed...
"Why, Silas! Look yonder!--up the road!--ain't that somebody coming?"
CHAPTER XXXIII.
NIGGER-STEALER!
"Oh, I CAN'T make you so much trouble; I couldn't...
"Why, no; I--I--well, no, I b'lieve I didn't."
On the road Tom he told me all about how...
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that...
"Now we're all right. We'll DIG him out. It 'll...
"No; I ain't heard nobody say nothing."
CHAPTER XXXV.
I says:
"Borrow a shirt, too."
Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till...
"Now, there's SENSE in that," I says. "Letting on don't...
CHAPTER XXXVI.
He had his own by him, but I handed him...
"NOW I know how to fix it. We'll send you...
"Mars Sid, you'll say I's a fool, but if I...
CHAPTER XXXVII.
"Well, it ain't YOUR fault if you haven't, Silas; you'd...
PHELPS!"
"Well, for the life of me I can't remember when...
So we was all right now, as to the shirt...
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
1. Here a captive heart busted. 2. Here a poor...
Our hole was pretty big, but it warn't big enough...
"I k'n stan' DEM, Mars Tom, but blame' 'f I...
"You don't WANT spring water; you want to water it...
CHAPTER XXXIX.
We got a licking every time one of our snakes...
"But looky here, Tom, what do we want to WARN...
So he said, now for the grand bulge! So the...
CHAPTER XL.
"NOTH'N!"
I was up stairs in a second, and down the...
"NOW, old Jim, you're a free man again, and I...
CHAPTER XLI.
"She needn't," I says, "because we was all right. We...
"A DOZEN says you!--FORTY couldn't a done every thing that's...
Says I to myself, I can explain better how we...
"The door ain't going to be locked, Tom, and there's...
CHAPTER XLII.
"Don't be no rougher on him than you're obleeged to,...
Then they come out and locked him up. I hoped...
"Mercy sakes!"
Aunt Sally jumped for her, and most hugged the head...
"Well, I never got 'em, Sis."
"No, he hain't," Tom says; "it's all there yet--six thousand...
