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Huck and Jim continue to travel down the river using a raft that they found. Eventually, they see a steamboat wreck called "The Walter Scott." Against Jim's wishes, Huck decides to tie the raft up and explore the boat. Huck always comments about how he wants to be like Tom Sawyer. While he's on the boat, the raft floats away. Huck and Jim find out that they are on the same boat as a gang of criminals. They hide while the men talk. Huck and Jim find a small boat next to the steamboat. They steal it away and use it to help them find their raft. Eventually, they find their raft, and life on the river gets back to normal. Eventually, they cross into Kentucky...
As Huck predicted, his father was in fact back in town. Huck comes home one evening to find his father sitting in his room waiting for him. He demands Huck to read for him, and is disgusted that Huck is smarter than him. Eventually, he takes Huck down to a cabin by the river on the border of Illinois and Missouri. Since his father is either away or drunk most of the time, Huck is able to sufficiently fake his own death and run away. He made sure that there were no holes in his plan, so that he would never be found. Huck finds a canoe hidden in the river grass and makes his great escape.
After leaving the Grangerfords, Huck and Jim cross into Arkansas, where they meet the Duke and Dauphin. They claim to be important royalty from France. The con-men force Jim and Huck to wait on them. They eventually stop at a town along the river. Pretending to be actors, they perform various scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. The Duke and Dauphin mess all of the lines up and steal the money of innocent people. The two men eventually decide to advertise their show as "The Royal Nonesuch." After two shows, the townspeople realize that they've all been tricked, and they show up at the third show seeking revenge. The men hurry back to the boat with Huck and continue their journey down the river.
Huck, Jim, the Duke, and the Dauphin all continue their journey down the river. After gathering the appropriate information from a boy on a boat, the two con-men decide to play yet another trick. They arrive at the funeral of Peter Wilks pretending to be his brothers. At his funeral, the men act completely nonsensical. The rest of the family does not suspect them of being frauds, because they've never met Mr. Wilks' family. The Duke and Dauphin decide to steal the $6,000 inheritance left by Mr. Wilks for his nieces. Huck doesn't want that kind of a trick to be played on the nice girls, so instead, he takes the money and throws it into to coffin. The undertaker seals the coffin before he can tell the nieces what really happened.
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In the next town, Huck, the Duke, and the Dauphin witness the shooting of a man, Boggs. The people in town had kept him around for company, because he was funny to have around, and he never caused any harm to anyone. However, a man named Sherburn shot him and killed him. After toasting Boggs' death, a lynching mob forms. They run over to Sherburn's house and try to find him. However, Sherburn runs outside and delivers a deep speech about human nature. He criticizes the hypocrisy and cowardice of mankind. The depth of his insights cause the townspeople to leave him alone.
After tying the raft up in Kentucky, Huck is led at gunpoint to an aristocratic house, the house of the Grangerfords. The family interrogates him to make sure he is not a Shepherdson, the family they have been feuding with for years. The feud has been going on for so long that they can't even remember what started it. On Church Sunday, the two families attend the same Church. They listen to a preaching on brotherly love while they keep their guns in between their legs. Huck finds a note in the pew after Church. It details the plan of how Sophia Grangerford is eloping with Harney Shepherdson. This news causes a fight to break out, resulting in the death of the Grangerford men, including young Buck.
After paddling the canoe down the river for quite some time, Huck decides to stop at Jackson's Island. Here, he finds Miss Watson's slave, Jim. He ran away because he thought that he was going to be sold to New Orleans. Eventually, Huck wants to find out what people are saying about his disappearance, so he goes across the river and arrives at Judith Loftus' house. Using the alias "Sarah Williams", he talks to Mrs. Loftus about his disappearance. It is suspected the Jim killed Huck because he ran away the night that Huck disappeared. There are people going over to the island to search. After talking to Huck for a while, Mrs. Loftus becomes aware that Huck is not really a girl. He makes up a story as to why he's pretending and leaves. Huck and Jim must leave the island fast, before anyone finds them.
Huck Finn is a young boy living in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He lives with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, who try to "sivilize" him by teaching him prayers, manners, reading, and writing. One night, he hears a soft "me-yow" coming from outside his window. After looking out, he sees that it is his friend, Tom Sawyer. They leave the house together and Tom pulls a prank on one of the slaves, Jim. Tom takes Huck to the meeting place of his "gang," where Tom explains the rules to the boys. When Huck comes home, he hears a rumor that his father, the drunk and abusive Pap Finn, is back in town.