 Chapter 19: As Huck and Jim continue on their journey on the raft, Huck jumps off and gets in their canoe. He continues on, just without Jim. Soon he comes across two men running from a town, both exclaiming that they need Huck's help. Huck takes them a mile downstream to safety and lets them join him and Jim on the raft. Huck and Jim hear the predicaments that both got into while in the town. The younger man sold a paste that supposedly removed tartar from people's teeth. Much to his dismay, it also took much of the enamel with it. The older man ran a temperance revival meeting, but had to flee after the people found out that he drank. These two men then decide to team up and both lie about their real identities to Huck and Jim. One exclaims that he is a duke and the other says he is a dauphin, the long lost son of Louis the XVI of France. Huck, however, figures out that these two are only lying and that none of this is true. He pretends that he believes them, though, to prevent and disputes or problems and to keep the peace on the raft between them.
Chapter 20: Huck explains to the duke and dauphin of how Jim was an "orphaned child" and how they travel by night because of all the people that they'd pass who would ask him if he was a runaway slave. Huck an Jim keep watch that night for a storm. The next morning, the duke and dauphin, looking for money, decide to put on a performance for the town that they come across. When they get to the town, they realize that everyone has gone and that they are holding a religious revival meeting. The dauphin see this as an opportunity to lie once again and believes that it will get him money. After telling the people of how he was a pirate and will return to the Indian ocean as a missionary. Upon hearing this the townspeople give him eighty dollars. Meanwhile, the duke makes some money by selling print jobs, subscriptions, and advertisements in the local newspaper in the deserted printing press. The duke prints a handbill promising a reward if anyone can find Jim and capture him.
 Chapter 17: Huck hears a voice from a house asking who he is. Huck responds by saying his name is George Jackson and approaches the house. After Huck makes it into the house, he meets the Grangerford family. They realize that Huck (or "George") isn't part of the Shepherdson family like they thought he was. The Shepherdson family is the long-standing rival/enemy of the Grangerfords. The family welcomes Huck and gives him food, clothing, and place to sleep. Huck also admires the furniture in the house and reads the many poems and artwork around about people who have died.
Chapter 18: Buck explains to Huck of how their family and the Shepherdsons have been in a long-standing feud after Buck tries to shoot one of the Shepherdsons named Harney. One things that is peculiar about these two families is that they attend the same church. While in church, they seem to get along fine and pretend that there is nothing wrong between them. They learn from the minister about brotherly love. One day at church, Sophia Grangerford has Huck retrieve a bible from a pew. As she looks inside, she reads a note that say "half past two". Huck later finds out that she is running off with a Shepherdson boy, Harney. This is after Huck's slave valet leads him into a swamp and shows him some water mocassins. Here, Huck finds Jim once again. The next day, Huck finds two Grangerfords (one of which is Buck) and two Shepherdsons in a gunfight. Both of the Grangerfords are killed. Huck and Jim then set off once again on their raft.
 Chapter 15: Huck and Jim are not far from their ultimate destination, which is the Ohio River, where they will sell their raft, get on a steamboat, and travel the rest of the way to the free states on the steamboat. The second night on their way, however, thick fog inhibited them from getting any further. As Huck searched for a towhead to tie to, he got separated fromm Jim and the raft while he was in the canoe. Because the fog was so thick, Huck lost the direction in which Jim and raft had gone and tried to paddle back. After a long series of call and response between Huck and Jim used for Huck to find his way back, Huck fell asleep. When he woke up, the sky was dark and filled with the stars. The fog had dissappeared. Huck finally was able to find his way back to the raft, which was only a black speck from far away. As Huck climbed back onto the raft, he saw that Jim was asleep and decided to make it seem like nothing had happened at all and that the whole situation was a dream. Jim believes Huck at first and tells Huck of the thick layers of fog and how they were seperated. Jim figures out that Huck is lying about it all being a dream, though, after he notices the debris and branches on the raft. He gets very angry at Huck for making a fool out of him, but Huck is sure to apologize for what he has done.
Chapter 16: During this chapter, Huck struggles with his conscience- on one side, he feels guilty for carrying Jim with him as an escaped slave from his rightful owner, but on the other hand, he feels that if he were to turn Jim in he would feel just as bad. As the two make their way to the town of Cairo, Jim tells Huck of how he plans on his wife and children gaining independence and coming to the free states with him, too. He says that if their owners won't let them go, he'll have abolitionists kidnap them. Huck also comes across two men that want their raft to be searched for any escaped slaves. At first, Huck wants to give Jim away, but he knows not to after Jim tells him that he is grateful for Huck keeping his promises. Huck drives the men away by explaining how his family is on the raft and is suffering from smallpox. The men are afraid of the spread of the disease and leave after giving Huck forty dollars in gold out of pity. Huck and Jim continue to float along and plan to take the canoe upriver after believing that they may have passed the town of Cairo. In the morning they discover that the canoe has been stolen (more bad luck) and are seperated once again after a steamboat collides with and breaks apart their raft. Huck makes it ashore, but is surrounded by dogs and cornered.
 Chapter 12: Huck and Jim make their way down the river on their raft. Jim builds a wigwam on the raft for them to sleep in and keep their stuff in for protection from rain. On the fifth night they pass by St. Louis and buy, hunt and steal food to use as their own resources. Huck and Jim also come across a steamboat shipwreck one night. Huck persuades Jim to climb aboard the steamboat because he wants to see what is on it and thinks that they can find some food, money, clothing, etc. while on the boat. Huck thinks of it as another part to their adventure and says that it is a risk worth taking. As Huck climbs onto the ship, he hears two murderers threatening to kill the third person so that he wouldn't "tell". The two murderers think that it would be easiest to drown their victim in the river. After Huck hears this, he hurries back to find Jim to tell him of what he heard and how they need to find the murderers' getaway boat so that they are not able to escape. Jim bears some bad news to Huck, too- their own raft has floated away.
Chapter 13: Huck and Jim find the murderers' boat and head off with it quickly. It turns out that the murderers/robbers left some money/items in their boat, and Huck and Jim take them for themselves. They sink the robbers' boat after they find their raft. after they they are far enough away to be safe from the robbers, Huck begins to feel a bit sorry for them and decides to find help ashore. He spots a ferry watchman and tells him a made-up story of how his "family" has been left stranded on the Walter Scott shipwreck. The ferry watchman agrees to help and takes his ferry to come to the aid of Huck's "family" (Huck is really referring to the robbers when speaking about his uncle).
Chapter 14: Huck and Jim take a look at the items that they have obtained from the robbers' boat, including the many books that were found. Huck begins to read to Jim about kings and dukes and earls. Hucks tell him of King Sollermun and how kings can get as much money as they wish without really doing anything. Huck also talks about how they go to war sometimes, but spend most of their time around the harem. Jim doesn't know of any of these things, and Huck explains. Jim thinks that it is silly for King Sollermun to have as many kids as Huck says he does (millions) and thinks that if someone had that many kids, they wouldn't value them as much as someone who only had a few. Huck and Jim then get in an argument about what/who a real man is, and Huck decides to quit- he believes that there's no use in fighting with Jim.
 Chapter 9: Jim and Huck travel up to the middle of the island and set up a new camp in a cavern that they find almost to the top on the side toward Illinois. Jim was right about the birds they saw earlier being a sign that it was going to rain- a furious rain came that night. Luckily, Huck and Jim decided to keep all of their stuff in the cavern and stay there. On a later night, Jim and Huck spotted a two-story frame-house at the head of the island and decided to check it out to see what was in it. As they climbed into the house, they noticed a man in the corner on the ground who happens to be dead. Huck tries to ignore it as best he can because he doesn't want to see the face of the man. The two make some great finds in the house. They find many things that will surely benefit them in the future, including clothing, both men's and women's.
Chapter 10: Huck and Jim rummage through the clothes they had found earlier and realize eight dollars in silver sewn up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat. Huck believes that this is good luck, and what Jim had said about bad luck his way after he touched a snakeskin is all rubbish. Jim assures Huck, however, that his bad luck will come, and indeed it does. Later on Friday night, Huck makes his way to the cavern to get some tobacco when he finds a rattlesnake. He kills it, but leaves it curled up on the foot of Jim's blanket as a prank/scare joke, forgetting that when you kill a snake's mate, the mate comes and curls around it. Jim get bitten by the second rattlesnake, but is in a good enough condition in a few days to move around again. After a while Huck gets bored and decides to go across to the town to see what is going on over there. He decides that a way people will not be able to recognize him is to dress up as a girl. Using the clothes that he and Jim found in the frame-house, Huck makes him way to the town.
Chapter 11: Huck come across and little shanty and is invited in by a 40-year-old women. After Huck lies about his name (Sarah Williams), they get to talking about the murder of Huck Finn and about the rewards for Jim (300 dollars) and Huck's pap (200 dollars) Huck also finds out that the husband of this woman is going over to the island in attempts to find Jim and get the reward. This alarms Huck, and the woman picks up on his nervousness. She asks Huck what his real name is and knows that he isn't a girl for what he seems and acts. Instead of telling the real truth of who he is, Huck tells yet another lie and says that he grew up on a farm 30 miles out with a mean farmer from whom he escaped. Huck states that his "real name" is George Peters and gets on his way quickly so as to get back to the island on time to warn Jim of who is coming to the island to try to find him.
 Chapter 7: Huck ends up falling asleep from the night before, and is startled upon waking up to his pap asking why he is holding the gun like he is. Huck replies that he thought he heard someone coming during the night, so he took the gun for protection. After narrowly escaping from his pap finding out the truth, Huck goes to catch breakfast in the river. While he was doing this, Huck soon comes across a perfect, intact canoe coasting along the river. Before his pap can see, Huck hides it in the bushes/trees. At around twelve o'clock, both pap and Huck comes across part of a long raft, and pap goes into town to sell it for money. Once pap was gone, Huck got himself out of the cabin through the whole he had been cutting away and acted on his plan of escape. He took the canoe and filled it with all of the provisions and paraphernalia that was in the cabin. He then made it seem like the "intruder" he was telling his pap about before had broken into the cabin and killed him. With additional placement of bloody clothing (after smearing the blood of the pig) and a trail of meal to the lake, Huck's plan was complete. He began to make his way down the river to Jackson's Island, but first, had a close encounter with his pap, who was coming back from town on a skiff. At last he was free, and laid down for a nap before breakfast the next day.
Chapter 8: The next day, as Huck is making breakfast, he hears the shot of cannons into the water from a ferry boat. He knows that they are looking for his body. While Huck is watching this all happen, he notices that the ferry is approaching where he is sitting, so he decides to hide behind a fallen tree trunk on the ground. This way they won't be able to see him, but he can still see who is on the ferry. Huck sees that his pap, the widow, Miss Watson, and the Judge are all on the ferry. They were debating on whether they should walk on the island, thinking that Huck may have found his way to shore rather than being murdered, but they kept on sailing after listening to silence from the island. The cannon shots go on for a series of days, and Huck finally decides after a couple of days to explore the island. As he explores, he comes across a campfire other than his own and bolts. There's someone other than himself on the island! When night came, Huck decided that he couldn't stay there by his camp for fear that the other person on the island would find him, so he paddled to the Illinois bank. He decided to paddle back to where he was when he heard two men on horses who decided to rest where he was on the Illinois bank. Huck figured that if he was going to stay on the island that he might as well find out who was on it with him. He set out to find the camp set up in the woods. When he finally came across it once again, he found that Jim, the slave that worked at the widow's, was there, too. They both then proceeded to tell each other why they ran away/escaped from their previous "homes". They find some food to eat together. As the day winds down, Jim tells the story to Huck of how he was once rich and how he plans to get rich once again.
 Chapter 4: Winter has begun and Huck has started school. He states that he doesn't like it, but it begins to grow on him as time passes. After getting scolded by Mrs. Watson for making a mess of the salt that he spilled (he now believes that it is terrible luck), Huck went down to the front only to find footprints in the snow. As soon as he saw that the left boot heel on the footprint had a cross on the bottom, Huck bolted for the Judge Thatcher. He made sure that the Judge kept the six thousand dollars and only took a single dollar from him in return. It seems as though Huck knows that his father, or pap, is near, and he goes to Jim to see if Jim can detect anything in regards to his father with his magic hair-ball. Later that night, Huck goes up to his room with a candle to find that his dad is sitting there in the room.
Chapter 5: Huck's pap is in a rough condition- very dirty, tattered clothes, and unshaven. He proceeds to reprimand Huck and throw insults at his new way of life, which, of course, includes his education. Huck's pap says that there is no room for that and that it is unnecessary, since he is not educated himself. Pap is very resentful towards Huck's overall condition and wishes to change this by threatening to beat him or "give him a cowhide" if he continues to go to school. Huck's pap appears to be very drunk throughout the chapter, as he has a drinking problem. He wants the money that Judge Thatcher has for his own use and for whiskey. Instead, the widow and the judge went to law to get the court to take Huck away from his pap and to let one of them be Huck's guardian. The new judge, however, inhibited this from happening, but pap ended up in jail anyway due to his drinking. Upon getting out of jail, the new judge sought to make a man out of Huck's pap, but pap ended up going back to his old ways in getting drunk. It seems as if Huck's pap is a hopeless case.
Chapter 6: Huck's pap continues to beat Huck for going to school still, but Huck continues to go. The law trial was very slow business, so nothing had yet been accomplished. Huck carries on with borrowing money from Judge Thatcher for his pap to use for drinking. It finally got to the point where the widow had had enough of Huck's pap hanging around the house, and this angered pap. Because he wants to show Huck "who's boss" he takes Huck up the river for three miles in a skiff and into the woods, where it is hard to find anything at all. They reach an old cabin, where Huck is confined and kept under a very watchful eye. Huck soon disregards all of the new things he has learned at the widow's house and forgets his manners. He begins cussing again, just like his pap, and starts to dislike school again more and more each day. Huck wishes to find an escape from the cabin and comes across an old rusty wood saw to use to cut his way out. This is no simple task, and Huck isn't able to finish it right away. His pap comes back and Huck endures another night of his father's wildness and drunkenness. Huck's pap begins to criticize the government and states that they are the reason why the law wants to take Huck away from him. He is unaware of his wrongdoing to Huck, so he doesn't realize that his own actions are the cause of all of the problems. Pap drinks and drinks and continues his long rant. In all of this, Huck falls asleep, but is awoken again by his father yelling. The situation escalates to Huck's pap chasing him around with a knife threatening to kill him because Huck is the "Angel of Death". Huck's pap soon becomes tired and dozes off. Huck will take no chances in the future and lays the gun in the cabin across the turnip-barrel pointing towards his pap. He sits down behind it, lying in wait, watching for his pap to stir.
 Chapter 1: Huckleberry introduces himself and his friend, Tom Sawyer to the reader from the very beginning and describes his family situation and how he lives with the widow and her sister Miss Watson. Huckleberry Finn complains about the teachings of Miss Watson such as Moses and the Bulrushers and the "good place" and the "bad place" (referring to teachings from the Bible) as well as spelling and proper manners. As nightfall approached, Huckleberry describes his lonesome feelings. He tells of his fright from the darkness and sounds of the night and of the spider that crawled on his shoulder. Finally, we learn at the end of the chapter that he sneaks off out his window after hearing his friend Tom Sawyer outside.
Chapter 2: Huckleberry Finn and Tom make their way through the darkness along a path among the trees beside the garden. Although they made sure they were as cautious as they could possibly be (so as to not get caught sneaking out late at night), Huckleberry manages to fall over a root. This grabs the attention of Jim, a black man who works for the widow, who is in the kitchen of the house. Huck and Tom narrowly escape and continue their journey to the edge of the hilltop around the garden fence. As they went down the hill, they met up with the other boys they knew as friends and established their own band of robbers called "Tom Sawyer's Gang". Tom proceeds to explain the rules of the gang and what members were expected to do. After the boys asked any remaining questions, the meeting was ended and Huck started home. He managed to climb back through his window just before daybreak.
Chapter 3: As morning comes, Huck describes the reactions and behaviors of the widow and Miss Watson toward the appearance of himself and his clothes. It is easy to see that the widow is much more sympathetic and soft towards Huck, while Miss Watson is more strict and disappointed. Huck also tells of his pap and how he hasn't seen him for more than a year. Most people think that he is dead and had drowned in river, although Huck doesn't believe so. Tom Sawyer and his gang continue to play their game of robber for another month. Huck and other gang members, however resigned after this point because no robbing or killing of people had occured- it was all pretend. Tom tries to save the game by warning the boys of secret news about Spanish merchants and A-rabs with elephants, mules, camels, diamonds, and soldiers who were coming to their camp the next day. This, too, proved to be pretend, and Huck realizes it is just another of Tom Sawyer's lies.
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