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Summary:
JIm and Huck come across a sinking steamboat. Huck convices Jim to let him check it out. On the boat Huck sees two robbers threatening to kill a third for killing is his partner. Huck and Jim escape by stealing the robbers boat.
Quote:
Then in there I see a man stretched on the floor and tied hand and foot, and two men standing over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the other one hand a pistol. This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor...(80).
Summary:
While Jim and Huck are floating down the river in the fog they realize that they have already passed cairo.
Quote:
"' Maybe we went by Cairo in the fog
that night.'"(110).
Summary:
Huck and Jim get separated when a steamboat runs over their raft. Huck finds himself on shore where a man finds him and takes him to his family. It is revealed that the family is in a feud with another family. After a few days fighting breaks out and many people are killed. Huck escapes with Jim and head down the river again.
Quote:
"Has this one [feud] been going on long, Buck?...' it started thirty years ago, or som'ers along there.'"(127).
Summary:
Huck and Jim come across two con men claiming to be a King and a Duke. Huck and Jim allow them to come on the raft to escape an angry mob
Quote:
"We heard them come along towards the crick, but couldnt see them... One of these fellows was about seventy, or upwards... The other was about thirty and dressed about as ornery."(142).
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Summary:
Huck, Tom, and Jim take their chance to escape through the hole the created in the shack. They are followed by angry farmers that are shooting at them. Tom gets shot in the leg and is nursed by Jim.
Quote:
"But we got under all right, and out through the hole, swift but soft..."(316)
"...but Tom was the gladdest of all, because he had a bullet in the calf of his leg."(318)
Summary:
Huck's dad Pap has taken Huck to his cabin in
the woods. In order to escape his abusive father
Huck fakes his own murder with the use of a
dead pig. He then escapes to Jacksons island where he hides out for a couple days.
Quote:
"I took the axe and smashed in the door--I beat it and hacked it considerable, a-doing it. I fetched the pig in and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed... They won't ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass." (39-41).
Summary:
The group comes to a town where they discover a wealthy man had just died. The Duke and King pretend to be the deceased's brothers in order to trick the daughters and steal their money.
Quote:
"Then he turns around, blubbering , and makes lots of idiotic signs to the duke on his hands, and blamed if he didn't drop a carpet-bag a bust out a crying. If they weren't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that I ever struck."(191).
Summary:
Huck decides to help Jim escape from the Phelps. When he reaches the house he is greeted by Tom Sawyer's aunt and uncle who believe he is Tom Sawyer so he plays along.
Quote:
"She grabbed me and huged me tight and then gripped me by both hands and shook and shook...'Children, it's your cousin Tom!'"(257).
Summary:
When the real Wilkes brothers show up the King and Duke are exposed as frauds. They are run out of town and have to catch up to Huck and Jim who were trying to escape.
Quote:
...I noticed a sound that i knowed very well...It was the King and the Duke."(239)
Summary:
After many failed atempts at Cons in various towns, the King resorts to turning in Jim to a farmer in order to make some money.
Quote:
"'Who nailed him?' 'It was an old fellow--a stranger--and he sold out his chance in him for forty dollars...'"(246).