Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05

Opening of the book

ADVENTURES
OF
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
(Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
By Mark Twain
Part 1
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CONTENTS.
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.
ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Widows
Moses and the "Bulrushers"
Miss Watson
Huck Stealing Away
They Tip-toed Along
Jim
Tom Sawyer's Band of Robbers
Huck Creeps into his Window
Miss Watson's Lecture
The Robbers Dispersed
Rubbing the Lamp
! ! ! !
Judge Thatcher surprised
Jim Listening
"Pap"
Huck and his Father
Reforming the Drunkard
Falling from Grace
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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.
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Scene:  The Mississippi Valley Time:  Forty to fifty
years ago
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CHAPTER I.
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.

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