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Summary (these are our summaries of the chapaters.) Chapters #1-4: Huck first gives a little background information. Huck tells you about how he and Tom Sawyer, Huck's best friend, came across a good amount of money and how the Judge Thatcher is holding to it for them and they get a certain amont a day and so on. He lives with the Widow Douglas, who is trying to turn him into a young man. Miss Watson is teaching Huck. She and the Widow Douglas are trying to get Huck into religion, which isn't in Huck's interest. Huck shows you what he is more interested in by sneaking out to meet up Tom. Huck and Tom go to meet up with their friends at their sercet spot. On the way, they accidently wake up Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Jim calls out, who's there and everything. When no one answers he decides to sit down and wait. He eventually falls asleep and Huck and Tom continue on their way, but first Tom wants to play a joke on Jim, like tying him to a tree, but Huck is against it so they don't. The boys need some candles, so Tom sneaks into the kitchen, on his way back, he decides to play a joke on Jim. He hangs Jim's hat on tree limb above. Jim thinks it's the Witches, when really it wasn't, but everyone just goes along with it. The boys meet up with their friends and Tom tells them his idea. He wants to start a gang of robbers. All the boys are for it and they come up with the rules. Huck lets you know a little about his father. The town thinks he's dead but Huck knows he's not. As the story goes on, the boys are robbing people, who are mainly women with garden carts. Tom tells them that Arabs are coming and planning to camp in their cave so they need to go and stop them. Well when the boys come down the hill they find out that it's just a sunday school class. Yet Tom keeps saying that they are Arabs. Tom and Huck fight about genies and stuff like that and whether they are real or not. Tom says they are, Huck doesn't. Huck's on his way out and notices some fresh tracks in the snow. He looks more carefully at them and see that there is a cross in the left heel made out of nails, it's way to keep the devil off. Well when he sees that he takes off to Judge Thatcher's. He tells the Judge to take all his money, he's giving it to him because he doesn't want Pap to get it. He believes that the tracks are Pap's, so he goes see Jim. Jim has a hair ball that he claims he can do magic with. Huck asks what Pap plans to do, Jim tells him not to worry, that Pap doesn't know what he is going to do. When Huck goes up to his room there is Pap sitting on his bed.

Chapters #5-9: Huck was scared at first when he first saw Pap, but realized that he had no reason to be scared after looking at how old Pap was. Well the Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher try to get Huck away from Pap but they can't. So the Judge takes Pap in. He was going to make Pap into a man. Pap gets all clean and says he was sorry and he'd do better and everything. Pap ends up sneaking out, gets drunk and doesn't change one bit. Pap is trying to get Huck's money, he's trying to get Huck whenever he can, like hiding and waits for Huck on his way to school. Eventually Pap "kidnapps" Huck and takes him to a little cabin in the woods by the river where no one can find it. Pap kept Huck with him at all times, and when he had to go into town he'd locked Huck in. He removed every thing that Huck could use to escape. Well Huck found and old saw that he cleaned up and hid. Pap gets drunks, starts acting like an idiot, and eventually passes out. After he does that Huck gets the gun and waits. Pap freaks out at Huck about the gun when he wakes, then tells him to go check the lines. While Huck is doing that he finds a canoe, so he hides it. While they are checking the lines a skiff of logs comes by, so they grab them and Pap decides to take them into town for some money, he locks Huck in first. Huck saws himself out, then steals all the supplies and stuff from the house. He fakes his death by killing a hog, spilling the blood on the ground, throwing it in the river, dragging a bag of rocks to make it look like a body was dragged, making a trail with the meal to fool them. Then he hides until dark, and sneaks to Jackson island. Huck just lies around, watching the town search for him. He goes exploring and finds fresh campfire ashes. Huck's a little worried, so he goes and makes it look like his ashes are old. Then he is walking around and finds Jim sleeping. At first Jim thinks that Huck is dead because of the whole murder thing, but Huck shows him that he's not. Huck tells him the story about how he faked his death and Jim tells Huck why he ran away. Huck and Jim go exploring and find a cavern. So they decide to move into that because nobody with be able to find them there unless they had dogs. A storm comes, so they stay in for awhile, then they go exploring some more. They find a house floating down the river and decide to go into it. Once they got in they found a dead guy in it. So Jim tells Huck not to look, covers the body. They take some supplies from the house and take it back to the cavern.   Chapters #10-14: The guys get on the subject of bad luck and Jim tells Huck that they would be having some soon. Huck decides to play a joke on Jim. He kills a rattlesnake and puts it on Jim's bed. Huck forgot that a rattlesnake's mate will come look for it, so when Jim laid down, it's mate bite him. It took Jim a few days to recover from the bite. They decided that Huck should go into town and check out what the news is. The only thing is though, is that Huck has to dress up like a girl. Huck dress up and heads into town. He comes to a house and knocked on the door. The lady who lived there lets Huck in. Huck tells her this story of way he there and everything. She starts talking about Huck's murder and how they think either Pap or the runaway slave, Jim, did it. The women goes on telling Huck about how she has seen smoke coming from Jackson island and how she thinks Jim is there, so her husband and some other guys are going to check it out. After that she goes on talking about how she has to live and how there are a lot of rats. Then she tries to hit one with a chuck of lead but miss, so Huck tries. She figures out that Huck is a boy, she gives him some advice and food, and tells him if he gets into trouble ask for Judith Loftus, which is the women. Huck heads back to the island to warn Jim. The guys are floating down the river and come across a wreaked steamboat. Huck wants to go on, but Jim does. Huck gets his way, when they get on there, they find that they're not the only ones on the boat. Theres a gang on there too, Jim leaves but Huck stays. Jim comes back and tells Huck the raft is gone. So they take the other two guys' boat. Huck is feeling bad about leaving those men on there waiting for their death even though they are murders themselves. So Huck finds a watchman and tells him it's his family on the boat and this huge story. So the watchman goes and gets the gang, a few minutes later the wreak comes floating by. Huck and Jim are floating down the river again, just talking about kings, dukes, stuff like that. Chapters #15-19: Huck and Jim get lost in the fog and seperated. Huck and Jim are making whooping noises to try to find eachother. Eventually Huck doesn't hear them anymore and decides to lay down in the canoe and sleep. When he wakes he finds Jim, Huck kind of plays a joke on Jim. Jim says, Huck is that you?, you've come back. Huck just says pretty much that he's been there the whole time only asleep. He tells Jim he must have been dreaming, that didn't sit so well with Jim. Once again Jim and Huck are floating down the river. They come up to a town and Huck takes the canoe to find out if the town they are looking for. Huck gets stopped by some men on other raft. They ask him a whole bunch of questions like if thats his raft and if there is anyone on it and if there is if they are black. Huck answers telling them it's pap and he is sick and wishes they'd go look at him. The guys ask what pap has. Huck says all this junk and the guys say it's smallpox and don't want to go near. They tell Huck to go to the town to get help and gave him some money. While they are on their way to the town a steamboat hits the raft, Huck and Jim are seperated again. Huck calls for Jim and then finally heads ashore to a house. The people in the house are being very careful, they ask Huck a bunch of questions. They determen that Huck isn't a Shepherdsons, who is a family this family is fighting with. They take Huck in, and Huck meets Buck, a boy about his age. Huck tells you about Buck's sister Emmeline, who is dead, and how she make some wonderful drawers and poems. Huck and Buck are out walking and Buck tells Huck to get into the woods. Harney Shepherdson comes by on his horse and Buck shots his hat off. Huck asks some questions about the family feud, but Buck doesn't know the answers. When they return home Miss Sophia asks Huck if he could ran back to the church because she forgot her testament there. Huck grabs it and finds a note that said half pass two on it. Miss Sophia tells Huck it's just a bookmark. Huck goes for a little walk and notices that his servant is following him. His servent takes Huck to Jim. They are both happy to see eachother. Huck then realizes that Buck is missing. His servant tells him that Miss Sophia ran away with Harney and the families where fighting eachother. Huck takes off and finds where they are. After the gun shots are gone Huck walks to river and finds that Buck is dead. He heads back to Jim and they take off again. While they are floating down the river, they come across two men, who ask for them to help them. They come aboard and tell Huck and Jim that they are a King and Duke. Chapters #20-24: The King and Duck decide to do a Shakespearn revival. When they get to a town they go ashore and make the stuff up that they need for it. Huck and the King go to a camp-meeting and the King gets everyone to give him some money. The Duke makes up a flier that says that Jim is a runway slave, so they can't get in trouble for having him. The King and Duke are working on their pieces and then they come across a town where they can do their show. When they get into town a guy named Boggs was drunk and was bugging this other guy named Sherburn. well eventually Sherburn is sick of Boggs and shoots him. The whole town is angry and starts a mob and heads to Sherburn's house to lynch him. Sherburn gives them this big speech and talks them out it. After all that was done Huck decides to go to the circus. Huck enjoyed himself at the circus, then it was time for their show. The show turned out to be a big flop so the King and Duke come up with a new idea for a show. Their new show filled the house up, but at the end the townpeople realized that they've been sold. So they come up with a plan to get back at the King and Duke. Of course the King and Duke had a plan if something like this happened. They snuck away with everyones money. Jim tells them he is sick of being tied up all day, so they come up with a new plan for him. They dress him up like a sick arab. The King, Duke, and Huck head down the river to catch a steamboat on the way they come across a young man. The man at first thinks that they are the Wilks brothers, but realizes they aren't. He goes on to tell them about the Wilks brothers and their brother Peter, who had just died.

Chapters #25-29: The King and Duke go to Peter Wilk's house pretending to be Harvey and William Wilk, Peter's two brothers from england. Everyone is glad to see them there. Mary Jane, Peter's oldest daughter, gives the King a letter to read from Peter. It tells that he left the land and stuff to his brothers and where he had hid the $6,000 for his girls. The men go and get, count it and take it to the girls. Mary Jane tells them to take it and invest it for them and they don't need a recipt for it. They are shown their rooms and head for supper. Huck is talking with Joanna about england and how the King goes to his church when he is in their town and all these other lies. She doesn't believe Huck at all. Huck is starting to feel bad about taking the money from the girls, so he decides to steal it, hide it, and later tell Mary Jane where it is. Huck finds out where the King and Duke hid the money, waits until everyone is a sleep and sneaks out to steal it. While Huck is looking for a place to hide the money, he hears someone coming, it was Mary Jane. He throws the money into the coffin and hides. The next day the money is closed in with Peter because no one knew where it was. The King and Duke pull Huck aside and ask if he had been their room. Huck says no. So they figure that the servants took it. They had just sold the servants too. The King and Duke tell the girls that they are going to England with them. Huck finds Mary Jane packing and decides to tell her who the King and Duke really are. She goes to a neighbor's to get someone. Huck tells her sisters that she went there because someone was sick. Later that day they held the auction and the real Wilk brothers show up. The towns people do a few tests to determin who is the really family. Huck sneaks out and heads back to Jim. They think that they are finally free of the other two but a little bit later they come paddling down the river. Chapters #30-34: The King and Duke are fighting with eachother. They each think that the other took the money and hid it. The King finally says that he took it just to get the Duke to shut up. Once again they are floating down the river, they stop at a few towns and try their show but it doesn't work. When they get to Pikesville, the King goes ashore to find if this would be a good place to do the show. When it's time for the Duke and Huck to go find the King Huck finds out that the men have sold Jim. Huck finds a boy who tells Huck where Jim is. Huck takes the raft and tries to figure out what to do. He decides the best thing to do is to go free Jim, so he heads to the Phelps farm. Huck arrives at the farm and a woman comes running out saying, it's you at last. Huck just say yes it's him. The woman turned out to be Tom's Aunt Sally, and she thinks Huck is Tom. On his way into town to "get" his stuff, Huck passes Tom. He tells Tom whats going on and Tom tells him that he wants to help free Jim. Huck heads back to the farm and a little while later Tom shows up pretending to be Sid, his older brother. Tom and Huck sneak out, Huck finds that the King and Duke have been caught. The boys find where Jim is and come up with a plan. Huck wants to do it simple, fast, and easy, Tom on the other hand wants it to be this huge adventure, Tom wins.

Chapters #35-39: The boys are working on their plan and getting everything ready for it. They start digging with case-knifes, Tom realizes after awhile that they are going to work so well so they switch to shovels. They get through, the next day they are down talking to Jim and discover that they had forgotten to shut the door to the lean to so the dogs found their hole and came into Jim's cabin. The servant who takes Jim his food claims it's witchcraft and is freaking out about it. They boys fool Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas by taking some stuff, then putting it back and taking it again. Now Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas won't suspect the boys. The boys made their rope pie for Jim and give it to him. Tom decides that Jim needs to do an inscription and a coat of arms. Huck and Jim try to talk Tom out of since Jim can't write but Tom finally gets his way and Jim does it. Tom also decides that Jim needs some strange pets, so they start collecting rats, bugs, and snakes. They all get loose in the house and Aunt Sally freaks. The boys writes some letters to scare Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas. They hung them on the door and it worked. Chapters #40-43: Huck and Tom are finally setting Jim free. Tom sneaks out to get Jim ready, Huck sneaks down to the cellar to get some butter that they need. On his way up he gets caught by Aunt Sally. She pulls him into the setting room and theres a whole mob of men there. She asks Huck some questions then sends him upstairs. Huck sneaks out to tell Tom they've got trouble. The mob reaches the cabin before they can escape but it's dark enough in the cabin that they can sneak out. While they are climbing over a fence Tom gets stuck and the mob hears them and takes off after them. They reach the raft and take off, Tom finds out that he's been shot in the leg. Huck gets the doctor but has to stay where he is because the doctor tells him that there is no room in the canoe that it was only ment for one person. Huck falls asleeps, when he wakes up he heads to the doctor's house and runs into Uncle Silas. Uncle Silas makes Huck go back to the farm. They wait and wait for Tom to show up, but he doesn't. Then they see the doctor, and a group of men carring Tom, with Jim behind them. The doctor tells the men not to be so hard on Jim because he helped care for Tom. For a few days Tom is out of his mind, but when he comes around, he tells Aunt Sally that they were the ones who freed Jim, and that Jim was a free man the whole time because Miss Watson had sat him free. Then Aunt Polly shows up and they find out that Huck is Huck and Tom is Tom. They tell Jim that he is a free man and Tom gets better. Jim tells Huck that he doesn't have to worry about Pap anymore because he was the dead guy in the house that was floating down the river when they were on the run. Aunt Sally wants to adopt Huck and sivilize him, Huck's not too happy about that.