THE ADVENTURES

OF

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

(TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE)

SCENE: The Mississippi Valley TIME: Forty to Fifty Years Ago

By Mark Twain

CONTENTS

Chap.

Notice

Explanatory

I. I Discover Moses and the Bulrushers.

II.

Our Gang's Dark Oath

III.

We Ambuscade the A-rabs

IV.

The Hair-ball Oracle

V. Pap Starts in on a New Life

VI.

Pap Struggles with the Death Angel

VII.

I Fool Pap and Get Away

VIII.

I Spare Miss Watson's Jim

IX.

The House of Death Floats By

X. What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin

XI.

They're After Us!

XII.

"Better Let Blame Well Alone"

XIII.

Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"

XIV.

Was Solomon Wise?

XV.

Fooling Poor Old Jim

XVI.

The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work

XVII.

The Grangerfords Take Me In

XVIII.

Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat

XIX.

The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard

XX.

What Royalty Did to Parkville

XXI.

An Arkansaw Difficulty

XXII.

Why the Lynching Bee Failed

XXIII.

The Orneriness of Kings

XXIV.

The King Turns Parson

XXV.

All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle

XXVI.

I Steal the King's Plunder

XXVII.

Dead Peter has His Gold

XXVIII.

Overreaching Don't Pay

XXIX.

I Light Out in the Storm

XXX.

The Gold Saves the Thieves

XXXI.

You Can't Pray a Lie

XXXII.

I Have a New Name

XXXIII.

The Pitiful Ending of Royalty

XXXIV.

We Cheer Up Jim

XXXV.

Dark,

Deep-laid Plans

XXXVI.

Trying to Help Jim

XXXVII.

Jim Gets His Witch-pie

XXXVIII.

"Here a Captive Heart Busted"

XXXIX.

Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters

XL.

A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue

XLI.

"Must

'a' Been Sperits"

XLII.

Why They Didn't Hang Jim

Chapter the Last.

Nothing More to Write

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author Huckleberry Finn "'Gimme a Chaw'" Tom Advises a Witch Pie

NOTICE

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;

persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;

persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

By Order of the Author,

Per G. G.,

Chief of Ordnance.

EXPLANATORY

In this book a number of dialects are used,

to wit: the Missouri negro dialect;

the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect;

the ordinary "Pike County" dialect;

and four modified varieties of this last.

The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion,

or by guesswork;

but painstakingly,

and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.

I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.

The Author.