Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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.

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

Index

Illustrations
CHAPTER I.  Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits.
CHAPTER II. The Boys Escape Jim.—Torn Sawyer's Gang.—Deep-laid Plans.
CHAPTER III. A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—"One of Tom Sawyers's Lies".
CHAPTER IV. Huck and the Judge.—Superstition.
CHAPTER V. Huck's Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform.
CHAPTER VI. He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decided to Leave.—Political
Economy.—Thrashing Around.
CHAPTER VII. Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting.
CHAPTER VIII. Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—Finding
Jim.—Jim's Escape.—Signs.—Balum.
CHAPTER IX. The Cave.—The Floating House.
CHAPTER X. The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise.
CHAPTER XI. Huck and the Woman.
The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen.
CHAPTER XII. 
Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.
Boarding theWreck.—The
Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat.
CHAPTER XIII. Escaping from the Wreck.—The Watchman.—Sinking
CHAPTER XIV. A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French.
CHAPTER XV. 
Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.
Huck Finds theRaft.—Trash.
CHAPTER XVI. Expectation.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by
Cairo.—Swimming Ashore.
CHAPTER XVII. An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen
Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions.
CHAPTER XVIII. Col.Grangerford.—Aristocracy.—Feuds.—TheTestament.
Recovering the Raft.—The Wood—pile.—Pork and Cabbage.
CHAPTER XIX. Tying Up Day—times.—An AstronomicalTheory.—Running a Temperance
Revival.—The Duke of Bridgewater.—The Troubles of Royalty.
CHAPTER XX. Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign.—Working the Camp—meeting.—A
Pirate at the Camp—meeting.—The Duke as a Printer.
CHAPTER XXI. Sword Exercise.—Hamlet's Soliloquy.—They Loafed Around Town.—A Lazy
Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead.
CHAPTER XXII. Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.—The
Thrilling Tragedy.
CHAPTER XXIII. Sold.—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Home-sick.
CHAPTER XXIV. Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Information.—Family Grief.
CHAPTER XXV. Is It Them?—Singing the"Doxologer."—AwfulSquare—Funeral Orgies.—A
Bad Inv  estment .
CHAPTER XXVI. A Pious King.—The King's Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.—Hiding in the
Room.—Huck Takes the Money.
CHAPTER XXVII. The Funeral.—Satisfying Curiosity.—Suspicious of Huck,—Quick Sales and Small.
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Trip to England.—"The Brute!"—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line.
CHAPTER XXIX. Contested Relationship.—The King Explains the Loss.—A Question of
Handwriting.—Digging up the Corpse.—Huck Escapes.
CHAPTER XXX. The King Went for Him.—A Royal Row.—Powerful Mellow.
CHAPTER XXXI. Ominous Plans.—News from Jim.—Old Recollections.—A Sheep
Story.—Valuable Information.
CHAPTER XXXII. Still and Sunday—like.—Mistaken Identity.—Up a Stump.—In a Dilemma.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Nigger Stealer.—Southern Hospitality.—A Pretty Long Blessing.—Tar
and Feathers.
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Hut by the Ash Hopper.—Outrageous.—Climbing the Lightning
Rod.—Troubled with Witches.
CHAPTER XXXV. Escaping Properly.—Dark Schemes.—Discrimination in Stealing.—A Deep
Hole.
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Lightning Rod.—His Level Best.—A Bequest to Posterity.—A High
Figure.
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Last Shirt.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.—The Witch Pie.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A
Tearful Subject.
CHAPTER XXXIX. Rats.—Lively Bed—fellows.—The Straw Dummy.
CHAPTER XL. Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor.
CHAPTER XLI. The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble.
CHAPTER XLII. Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor's Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly
Arrives.—Hand Out Them Letters    .
CHAPTER XLIII. Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Truly, Huck Finn.