The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[Pages:303]THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

BY

MARK TWAIN

A GLASSBOOK CLASSIC

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

The Adventures of

Huckleberry

Finn

(Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

by

Mark Twain

A GLASSBOOK CLASSIC

NOTICE

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.

EXPLANATORY

IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.

I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.

THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

1

CHAPTER TWO

5

CHAPTER THREE

11

CHAPTER FOUR

16

CHAPTER FIVE

20

CHAPTER SIX

25

CHAPTER SEVEN

32

CHAPTER EIGHT

39

CHAPTER NINE

50

CHAPTER TEN

54

CHAPTER ELEVEN

58

CHAPTER TWELVE

66

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

73

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

79

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

84

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

90

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

99

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

108

CHAPTER NINETEEN

120

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER TWENTY

129

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

138

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

148

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

154

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

160

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

166

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

174

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

182

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

189

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

198

CHAPTER THIRTY

208

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

212

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

221

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

227

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

234

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

240

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

247

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

253

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

260

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

267

CHAPTER FORTY

273

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

279

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO

286

THE CHAPTER LAST

294

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CHAPTER ONE

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the

name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece--all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put

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