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Busy at War and Love
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Showing Off in Sunday-School
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The Pinch-Bug and His Prey
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Tom Meets Becky
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Tick-Running and a Heartbreak
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A Pirate Bold To Be
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Tragedy in the Graveyard
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Dire Prophecy of the Howling Dog
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Conscience Racks Tom
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The Cat and the Pain-Killer
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The Pirate Crew Set Sail
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Happy Camp of the Freebooters
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Tom's Stealthy Visit Home
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First Pipes—"I've Lost My Knife"
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Pirates at Their Own Funeral
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Tom Reveals His Dream Secret
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The Cruelty of "I Didn't Think"
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Tom Takes Becky's Punishment
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Eloquence—and the Master's Gilded Dome
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Huck Finn Quotes Scripture
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The Salvation of Muff Potter
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Splendid Days and Fearsome Nights
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Seeking the Buried Treasure
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Real Robbers Seize the Box of Gold
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Trembling on the Trail
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In the Lair of Injun Joe
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Huck Saves the Widow
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Tom and Becky in the Cave
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Found and Lost Again
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"Turn Out! They're Found!"
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The Fate of Injun Joe
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Floods of Gold
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Respectable Huck Joins the Gang
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Front Matter
Preface
M
OST of the adventures recorded in this book
really occurred; one or two were experiences
of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates
of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life;
Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he
is a combination of the characteristics of three boys
whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the
composite order of architechture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all
prevalent among children and slaves in the West
at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or
forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the
entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not
be shunned by men and women on that account,
for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly
remind adults of what they once were themselves,
and of how they felt and thought and talked, and
what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
Hartford,
1876.
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