Chapter 1
Huck is now living with the Widow Douglas. She fixes him up after he finds his fortune that was in the previous book. Her sister Miss Wilson moves in with them and scolds Huck a lot. He doesn't much care for her. There are many rules in the house he doesn't like, like no smoking, he sometimes misses his old life. At the end of the chapter he is up in his room and begins to get frightened by all the darkness and scary noises outside. A spider burns in his candle which he takes as a bad omen for the future. Then he goes and meets Tom Sawyer in th woods.
Chapter 2
Tom sawyer and Huck sneak out but, Jim hears them and waits for them to come out of their hiding places. He eventually falls asleep and Tom decides to play a prank on him. Tom hangs his hat on a tree branch and Jim thinks that he has been possessed by witches to do their bidding and gets a lot of attention from everyone. Mean while Tom starts a gang of robbers with Huck and their friends. They decide they are going to kill and rob people and everyone who joins must write their name in blood. after that Huck returns home at dawn.
Chapter 3
In the morning after a long night out with Tom, Huck gets scolded for his dirty clothes. Tom Sawyer and his gang go and rob gardeners of their turnips and play pretend which doesn't appeal to what the other boys were expecting, so now everyone wants to quit. Tom wanting them to stay tells them that a group of Spaniards and A-rabs are coming through with diamonds, camels and elephants. It ends up being just being a school group. Tom Sawyer lies again. Tom also tells Huck all about genies and the wishes they grant when you rub a lamp. Huck tries with his own lamp and it does not work.
Chapter 4
Huck starts school and actually likes it. In the snow he see's some foot prints and discovers to his horror that his Pap is back.He runs to the judge and gives him his money so his father can't have it. He then talks to Jim's magic fur ball for advice and what his future holds about his father. The chapter ends when he finds his father in his room!
Chapter 5
Huck's Pap is back and meaner than ever and says that he wants all of Huck's money and for him to stop going to school. The Widow Douglas goes to court to become Huck's legal guardian but the case isn't going well. Through out the book he gets beaten by his father several times for going to school and because his father is drunk. The Judge take him in and tries to make him into a better man but it does not work.
Chapter 6
Huck's Pap and the Widow douglas are fighting over being Huck's guardian. His father then kidnaps him and take him down the river to a small cabin in the woods and locks him in. Huck reverts back to his old life style and actually enjoys being there except for the beatings he gets from his father. While his father is out he does try to find a way to escape. He finds a saw and begins to cut but his father comes home before he can finish. The father then gets very drunk and complains about the government. Then he goes nuts and tries to kill Huck! He finally falls asleep and Huck gets the gun to protect himself.
Chapter 7
Huck wakes up with the gun in his hands and decides that after last nights episode with his father it's time to run away. On the river he finds a canoe and hides it so he can escape with it later.His father goes to town to sell some lumber and Huck goes to work on his escape from the cabin. He decides to take everything in the cabin and to fake his own death so no one will come after him.He kills a pig and use its carcase to make the perfect scene on the crime. He then takes his canoe and floats to Jackson island.
Chapter 8
He stays on the island and enjoys himself for the time being. He then hears a cannon and see's that the town people are out looking for his body, so he hides. After they go he investigates and stumbles upon a camp fire! He ends up finding Jim and is very happy to see him because he was getting lonely. Jim tells Huck has run off from the Widow Douglas, and they become run away's together.
Chapter 9
Jim and Huck take cover in a cave and make it there new home. It rains a lot and the river floods up many feet. Huck and Jim canoe around the island and spot a floating house. They go inside and find a dead man. They cover the man up and loot the place and return back to their cave.
Chapter 10
Huck plays a prank on Jim that goes horribly wrong. He hides a dead snake in his bed hoping to spook him but, the mate come and bites Jim. He does all this superstitious stuff to heal himself and it works. The river returns to normal and Huck is curious about what is going on in town. He decides to go to town disguised as a girl to find out about his murder among other things.
Chapter 11
Huck goes into town about night fall and see's a new person has moved in to town. He thinks this is the perfect opportunity to find out local gossip. He goes into her house disguised as a girl to obtain this information, he does not want to be recognized. He finds out that most everyone thinks that Jim killed him and there is three-hundred dollar reward. His father is also a suspect but only has a two-hundred dollar reward. His father skips town and no one knows where he is. The lady can tell he's bluffing about his gender so she puts him through test until he tells her a somewhat truth, he lies about his name though.She tells him that if he ever needs help to contact her and Jim and him runaway.
Chapter 12
Huck and Jim build a wigwam on the raft and spend a number of days drifting and trying to not be seen. They end up having to steal things to survive. They feel bad about it so they give up some items as a moral sacrifice. They come upon a wrecked steam boat and Huck goes aboard against Jim's wishes. While he is looting the place he overhears that the robbers, also aboard, are going to kill one of their companions. He tells Jim that they should cut the robber's boat loose so that they can't escape. Little does he know that their raft has broken loose and floated away.
Chapter 13
Huck and Jim take the robber's boat along with some stolen items. Huck feels bad about stranding them so they stop ashore so Huck can get them some help. He tells the ferry watchmen this elaborate tall tale that a family is stranded on the steam boat so that the ferry man would help. Huck feels proud of his good deed and thinks that the Widow Douglas would be proud too. Jim an Huck then sink the robber's boat because the have found their own and go to sleep.
Chapter 14
Huck and Jim find lots of valuable item among the robber's bounty. As they relax in the woods to rest before traveling again, Huck finds a book and reads it. The two discuss their own adventures so far. Jim says he doesn't enjoy their adventures because he might get killed or captured. Huck then shares the stories of different kings and throws in some his own made up ones. He also tells him about the "dolphin", dalphin (son of the executed King Louis the XVl of France), and how he is rumored to be wandering America. They then argue about that the French can not speak english like Huck says. Huck tries to prove his point but ends up defeated.
chapter 15
Huck and Jim approach the Ohio river, their goal. It's foggy out and Huck is in the the canoe while Jim is on the raft. They get separated and Huck can't find his sense of direction in the fog. After drifting awhile Huck reunites with Jim, who fell asleep on the raft. They are both happy to see each other. Huck always a trickster tries to convince Jim that he dreamed up the whole thing. It works until Jim notices the debris that collected over time on his raft. He gets mad at Huck for trying to trick him after he worried so much about him. Huck then apologizes and actually means it.
chapter 16
Huck and Jim are worried they might miss their stop at Cairo which runs into the free states. Jim is paddling on and on about becoming a free man and making enough money to free his wife and kids. Huck on the other hand is having conflicting feelings about helping him. He feels bad about taking Jim from his "rightful owner". He decides that is going to give Jim up until he hears Jim call him his only friend, the only one to keep a promise to him, this softens Huck's heart. Some men in a boat want to search his raft for escaped slaves. Huck makes up a lie about how he is going to get help for him and his family because they have small pox. The men not wanting to catch it leave them alone. Huck still feels a little conflicted but decides to worry about it later. They stop for the night and find in the morning that their canoe is gone. Then a steamboat collides with their raft and they are once again separated. Huck makes it ashore but finds himself cornered by dogs.
chapter 17
A man calls of the dogs and saves Huck. Huck introduces himself as George Jackson and is welcomed into the house of the Grangerfords. The family accuses him of being a Shepherdson, an apparent rival of the family but decide against it. Huck plays with their son Buck who is about his age. Huck makes up an elaborate story to explain how he was orphaned. Buck's family offer to let Huck stay with them as long as he likes. Huck really likes it there and thinks to himself that "nothing couldn't bo better" than living in this comfortable house.
chapter 18
Huck loves living on the Grangerford estate. One day Huck finds Buck trying to shoot a young man named Harney shepherdson. When Huck ask's why he explains that the two families are in a feud even though no one remembers why. One day after church sophia Grangerford has Huck recieve a copy of the bible from the pew. Inside she finds a note the reads "half past two", she is delighted. Later Huck's slave valet leads Huck deep into the swamp where he finds Jim. Jim says that he followed Huck ashore but did not call out for fear that he might get caught. The next day Huck learns that Sophia Grangerford has run off with Harney Shepherdson! In the woods Huck finds Buck and another Grangerford in a gun fight with the Shephersons. Both Grangerfords get killed. Apualed, Huck heads for Jim and the raft and shoves off.
Chapter 19
On the river Huck comes along two men on the shore fleeing from trouble and begging to be let on thwe raft. Huck being kind lets them on. The men even thoughthey do not know each other find themselves in similar predicaments. The older man with whiskers use to run a temperance revival meeting but had to fleeafter word got out that he drank. The other younger man about thirty, use to sell a paste that was meant to remove tartar from teeth but took off too much enamle with it. He had to flee to avoid the local's rath. After hearing each others stories the two con artists decide to team up. The younger man declares himself a Duke. while the older man tells them that his true identity is non other than the dauphin, the long lost son of of king Louis the XVI of france. Huck and Jim wait on them and treat them like royalty. They even call them "Duke" and "your majesty". Huck relizes the men are liars but does not want to start a fight so he says nothing.
Chapter 20
More shenanigans occur from the two con artists Huck and Jim are accompanying. The two make Huck and Jim give up their beds while they have to stand watch against the storm. They decide to go into town and find that everyone has gone to a religious revival meeting in the woods. During the session the "Dauphin" gets up and tells the crowd that he is a former pirate, now reformed by the revival meeting, who will return to the indian ocean as a missonary. The crowd cheers and takes up a collection, getting the "pirate" more than eighty dollars and many kisses form pretty young women. Meanwhile, the " Duke" takes over the deserted print office in town and earns some money by selling printing jobs, subsciptions and advertisments in the local newspaper. He also prints up a handbil offering a reward for Jim's capture, which will allow them to travle freely by day and tell anyone that questions them that they are getting a reward. Meanwhile Jim has been asking the so called Dauphin of France to speak french but he claims that he has forgotten the language.
Chapter 21
After a night of drinking the Duke and King wake up decide to practice the balcony scene from romeo and juliet, the sword fight from Richard the III and the Duke recites the "to be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, though he gets some of it mixed up from macbeth. Huck thinks they posses great talent. They then go and visit a town in Arkansas. The town is full of lazy drunken men who like to argue. The duke posts handbills for a theatrical performance whlie Huck watches the
Chapter 22
The mob charges to Sherburn's house where they are ready to lynch him. However they quickly back down because he is on the roof with a rifle in hand ready to shoot who ever he wants. He then gives a boastful speech about how they won't lynch him in the daytime and makes them all feel like cowards so they leave. Huck then goes to the circus and see's a funny clown who's act is hanging onto a house for dear life. Everyone laughs except for Huck because he is afraid the man might hurt himself. At the dukes performance only twelve people show and jeer the entire time. He then prints another handbill that states " Women and children not permitted" to peak the public's interest.
Chapter 23
The royal non-such play has a full house! Everyone wants to see this supposed outrageous play only to find out how short it is. They are very angry that they got ripped off but decide to pretend it was a good show in order not to look foolish in front of others who haven't seen it. They tell everyone to go see the show too so that they also get ripped off and everyone is then equally foolish. The duke and dauphin earn a whopping $465.00 in their three night run. Jim is shocked that the royals are such "rapscallions". Huck tells him that this is how rulers have often been in history. Still not breaking the news to Jim that they are fakes.
Chapter 24
They decide to go to the next town in style with new clothes, even Jim is dressed up in some tribal get-up with a sign that reads "sick Arab but harmless when not out of his head". They go aboard a steamboat and meet a talkative young ma who tells the dauphin about the Wilks family that has had a deceased relative and has left much of fortune to his two English brothers who no one has met. After arriving in the town the two con men look up the Wilks and act as if they are the brothers. When the family tells them the news that writhe in anguish at the loss of their fake dear brother. The dauphin even does fake sign language to the duke who is pretending to be deaf. This makes Huck feel very ashamed of the human race.
Chapter 25
The three neices of Wilkes tearfully greet the Duke and Dauphine, whom they believe are their British uncles. They read a letter that says their father has left behind and bequeathed the house and $3000 to his neices. Also, $3000 and real estate to his "brothers". After they find the money in the basement as the letter instructed, the Duke and Dauphine count the money and find that there is a shortage of money promised. They hand all the money over to the Wilke's sisters making a great show to the townspeople. Dr. Robinson, a friend of the Wilkes' declares that the Duke and Dauphine are fakes. He asks the oldest sister, Mary Jane, to listen to him. Instead she gives the entire $6000 to the Dauphine to invest as he sees fit.
Chapter 26
The Dauphine arranges for them to stay the night in the Wilkes' house. Huck has supper with JoAnne, the youngest Wilkes sister. She tests Huck's knowledge of England. Huck makes many slip ups until JoAnne accuses him of making the whole thing up. Her sisters instruct her to be more courteous to their guest and she apologizes to Huck. Huck feels terrible taking money from such sweet girls. So, he goes into the Duke and Dauphine's room to search for the money. When they enter the room, he hides and he overhears the Dauphine say that he wants to get the property also. After they leave the room Huck finds the money and takes it to his sleeping cubby and sneaks out late in the night.
Chapter 27
Huck hides the money in Peter Wilkes coffin when Mary Jane enters crying. Huck does not get another opportunity to remove the money. So, he does not know who might find it or take it. During the funeral, a dog starts barking. The undertaker slips out. Every one hears a whack sound and the undertaker says the dog caught a rat. He then closes and seals the coffin without looking inside. Huck will never know if the Duke and the Dauphine got the money back. He wonders if he should write to Mary Jane to dig it up after he leaves. The Dauphine sells off the estate and slaves, telling the sisters he is taking them to England. He separates a family of slaves which upsets the Wilkes sisters. The con-men then question Huck about the missing money. He leads them to believe that the Wilkes' family slaves took it.
Chapter 28
The next morning, Huck finds a very distressed Mary Jane crying in her bedroom. She is sad over the separation of the slave family. Feeling touched, Huck without thinking, tells her they will be reunited soon. A very joyful Mary Jane asks him to explain. Huck not used to telling the truth, feels uneasy in the practice. He tells her the truth but asks her to go to a friends house so he has time to get away because another persons fate also hangs in the balance ( Jim ). Because her face might give them away he tells her not to see her "uncles". He leaves Mary Jane a note with the location of the money. After Mary Jane leaves, her sisters question him at the door about where she is. He gets them to also keep quiet about the plan. Later that day, a mob interrupts the auction of the family positions held by the Dauphine. Among them are the real Wilkes' uncles.
Chapter 29
The real Wilkes' uncles, are now back in the picture and explain why they were delayed. Their luggage was lost and the mute brother broke his arm making him unable to communicate. The crowd is not sure who the real uncles are so they take the Duke and the Dauphine and the real Wilkes' uncles to the tavern. A lawyer friend of the deceased makes each of them write to compare writing samples. He then exposes the fraud: the Duke and the Dauphine. The Dauphine refusing to give up, argues for their innocence and the crowd is confused once again. To put an end to the confusion, the real Harvey Wilkes says that he knows of a tatoo on his brother's chest. the Dauphine chimes in too but each gives a different description. The undertaker says, he does not remember a tatoo which angers the crowd. They finally exume the body to put a stop to all the nonsense. When they do, they find all the money in the coffin. In all the excitement, Huck excapes with Jim on the raft. He thinks he is finally rid of the con-men until he sees them approach in a boat.
Chapter 30
When the Duke and the Dauphine approach and mount the raft, the Dauphine goes at Huck with extreme rage. He nearly strangles him but the Duke stops him. They explain that they made their getaway after the money was found in the coffin. They both believe that the other one double crossed the other by hiding the money in the coffin to retrieve it later. They start a fight but eventually make up and go to sleep.
Chapter 31
They all start to travel down the river several days without stopping to try to out distance any rumors they pulled with the Wilkes'. They try several scams through various town but have no success. In one town the Duke and the Dauphine get into a fight at the tavern. Huck sneaks away back to the raft. When he gets there, there is no sight of Jim. A boy tells Huck that a man fitting the Dauphine's description sold the runaway to a farmer named Silas Phelps. Huck decides to write to Tom Sawyer to tell Miss Watson where Jim is but he realizes she would sell him anyway. Plus when word got out that he had helped a black man, he would be forever ashamed. He feels to conflicted and upset with what to do that he decides this must be God's punishment for helping Jim. He starts to pray for forgiveness, but it just doesn't feel right. He then remembers how kind Jim was and how they became such good friends on this journey. He comes to the conclusion that he will steal Jim out of slavery and is willing to go to hell for him. He goes on his way to the Phelps Farm.
Chapter 32
Huck finds the Phelps Farm where Jim is supposedly being held. A pack of dogs is there to scare and greet Huck. A slave woman calls them off. He then meets the lady of the house, Sally who thinks Huck is her nephew, Tom. When she asks "Tom" why he was so late, Huck makes up another elaborate story about a steamboat and an explosion. Huck is not sure whether he can keep this charade up. However, when he meets Sally's husband Silas, he happily figures out that Tom is actually Tom Sawyer, his best friend. He tells the couple he is now going down to
Chapter 33
Huck meets Tom's wagon coming down the road. At first Tom is frightened of Huck thinking he was dead. He is eventually convinced that Huck is truly alive. Tom then agrees to help Huck free Jim which shocks Huck. Together they go back to the Phelps Farm. The Phelps' are happy to have another guest. The real Tom introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio on his way to visit his own uncle. The two boys wait the rest of the day for the couple to mention the runaway slave being held on their property but have no luck. However, when one of their children asks to see a show that is passing through, the Duke and the Dauphine's, Silas says that the runaway told him the show is a con. That night Tom and Huck sneak out of the house. As they walk down the road, they see a mob of townspeople running a tarred and feathered Duke and Dauphine out of town on a rail. Huck feels bad for them.
Chapter 34
Tom remembers seeing a black man delivering food to a shed on the Phelps farm that evening and deduces that the shed is where they are stashing Jim. An impressed Huck then hatches a plan to steal the key to the shed and make off with Jim in the middle of the night. Tom belittles this plan for its lack of showmanship and simplicity. Tom comes up with a wild plan that Huck admits is fifteen times more stylish but may get the three of them killed. Huck and Tom, get Jim's keeper a superstitious slave, to let them see Jim. When Huck calls out in recognition, Tom protects their secret by convincing the keeper that the witches made him say it. Tom and Huck promise to get Jim out and make preparations.
Chapter 35
Tom is disappointed that Silas Phelps has taken such few precautions to guard Jim. He says that he and Huck will have to make their own obstacles in rescuing Jim. He says they must saw Jim's chains off instead of lifting them off the bed frame work because that is how it is done in the books. Tom prattles on about other things that are allegedly necessary in plotting an escape. Since they are pressed for time, they will dig Jim out with large table knives that will make it difficult. Despite all the theft that Tom's plan entails, Tom gets upset at Huck for stealing the slave's watermelon out of the garden. He makes Huck give them a dime for compensation.
Chapter 36
Later that night, Tom and Huck give up on digging with knives and switch to pick axes instead. The next day, the boys gather up candlesticks, spoons and pie tins. Tom says that Jim can etch a declaration of his captivity on a plate and throw it out the window just like in Tom's novel. This pleases him. That night they dig their way to Jim who is very happy to see them. Jim doesn't quite understand the boys' crazy plan but goes along with it anyways. Tom then convinces Jim's superstitious keeper, who believes witches are chasing him, that the only way to cure it is to bake a witch pie and give it to Jim. Tom plans to put a rope ladder in the pie.
Chapter 37
Aunt Sally notices all the missing things that Tom and Huck stole for their plan. She takes her anger out on everyone except the boys. She believes the rats are to blame. So, Huck and Tom seal up all the rat holes. By removing and the replacing the items they stole, the boys confuse Aunt Sally so much that she loses track of how many items are missing. The trying task of baking the witch pie is completed and they send it to Jim.
Chapter 38
Tom wants Jim to scratch an inscription bearing his coat of arms on the walls of the shed like the book says. They have to complete the task by using candlesticks and spoons as pens but they manage to complete it . Tom is upset that their coat of arms is written on wood instead of stone. So, the boys try to steal some milestone but it is too heavy for them. So, they sneak Jim out to help them. Huck and Jim end up struggling with the milestone as Tom supervises. Huck takes note to this. Tom tries to get Jim to take a rattlesnake or rat with him to tame and to grow a flower with water from his tears. When Jim protests against this unnecessary amount of trouble, Tom replies, his ideas present opportunities of greatness.
Chapter 39
Huck and Tom capture rats and snakes to put in the shed with Jim. The vermin also make their way into the Pheps house. Aunt Sally gets in a tizzy over the disorder of her house hold. Meanwhile, Silas has not heard back from the plantation that will supposedly reward him for Jim's capture. He plans to advertise his capture in the New Orleans newspaper. This worries the boys because Miss Watson is sure to see it. So Tom once again following his book puts the last part of his plan into action. He writes letters from an unknown friend that warns the Phelps family of trouble. He finishes with a longer letter pretending to be a member of a band of gangsters who plan to steal Jim. The letter the family that the person writing has found religion and wants to help them. It then goes on to to tell them the details of how the theft will take place.
Chapter 40
Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas are scared of the warnings in the ominous letter so they send the boys to bed right after dinner. Later that night Huck sees a group of armed farmers gather in the front room of the house. He gets to the shed to warn Jim and Tom but the news only excites Tom more. Suddenly the men attack the shed and they all escape through a hole they cut in the wall. As they escape Tom attracts attention to them and they get shot at! As they ride off in the canoe Tom is delighted at their daring escape and the bullet he got in his leg as a souvinear. Huck and Jim are worried about Tom's wound. Jim says they should see a doctor but this might endanger them further.
Chapter 41
Huck leaves Jim and Tom on the raft to go find a doctor for Tom's wound. He finds one and sends him to Tom in a canoe. He then runs into Silas the next morning and he takes him straight home. Inside the house he finds the place filled with farmers and their wives discussing the events of the bizarre things they found in the shed and the escape. Huck wants to go find Tom but Aunt Sally doesn't want to let him go because she doesn't want to let him go because she doesn't want to risk loosing another boy. Huck touched by her concern, promises never to hurt her again,
Chapter 42
Aunt Polly writes to Aunt Sally, her sister, telling her Tom "Sid" is alright. He came home semi-conscious from the bullet wound and was accompanied by Jim, who is now in chains. Jim has risked his freedom to nurse Tom but the crowd still treated him pretty roughly. When Tom wakes, he tells of his adventure in setting Jim free. He becomes quite upset by the fact that Jim is now in chains. However, as it turns out, Miss Watson, Jim's owner, has passed away and in her will she granted Jim his freedom! Aunt Sally and Aunt Polly then uncover the boys as them real selves. They get scolded for their misadventures.
Chapter 43
Now that the story is near done, Huck asks Tom what he plans to do once they free Jim. Tom says he is going to pay Jim back for all his troubles which he does. Once he is free, Tom gives Jim $40. The Phelps family and Aunt Polly treat Jim like a king once they hear the assistance he gave the doctor with Tom. Once Tom is all healed, and Jim is free, Huck and Tom agree to go on another adventure to Indian Territory! They get onto the topic of Huck's Pap. Jim reveals that the dead body they found was his Pap. Huck is glad the story is ending because writing a book was quite a trying task. From here on out, he is heading West immediately because Aunt Sally is trying to civilize him and he has had enough of that. THE END.