| mee Huckleberry Finn Fin iHUCKLEBERRY FINN “I never had a home,” writes Hac, “or went to school Like all the other boys. I slepe in the streets or in the woods, and I could do what I waoted, when I wanted, Te was a fine life” So when Huck goes to live with the Widow Douglas, he doesn't like it ar all. He has to be clean and cidy, be good all the time, and go to school. Then his father comes and takes him away to live inthe woods. At first ‘Huck is pleased, but his father is always hitting him so Huck decides to run away. ‘When he meets Jim, a runaway slave, they devide to travel together down the great Mississippi River on a raft. They run into all kinds of trouble and danger, of course, but Huck is happy. Life on the river is so free and easy and comfortable...~ Classics Huckleberry Finn Stage 2700 headers) Founder Editor, Trica Hedge Serie Fitor: Jennifer Bassett Activites Editors Jenifer asst and Alison Baxtersh Ley ins ptr oft ie of Oso en i ie ‘Sofas Shingot Tape Tago Toa et ib vane ‘hsp con © Ose Lari Pon 20 A on on es pe of nro Neumann sie ra No phen hr oes em ye os ped where oni te nm cin Stern tg act Stn Ay mb eon hi bon he palin nd ap yd See Trad Seay Ugo CONTENTS Huck in trouble luck escapes and finds a friend “Huck and Jim travel south “The Duke and the King, “The plan ro free Jim activins: Before Reading actives: While Reading. AcrIVTis: After Reading 0 v 8 2 4s 6 2 s1 Huck in trouble Y a don’t know about me if you haven't read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mr Mark Twain wrote the book and most of its true. In that book robbers stole some money andhid it ina very secret placein thewoods. But Tom Sawyer and foundit,andafterthatwe were rich, We got six thousand dollars each all gold. Inthose days never hada home or went to school ike Tom andl the other boys in Se Petersburg, Pop wasalveays drank, and he moved around alot, so he wasn't a very good father. Buti didn’t matter to me. | sleptin te srets or inthe woods, and [could do what I wanted, when I wanted. It wasa fnelif 1 could do what Iwanted, when I wanted. Itwasa fine life. L‘When we gotall that money, Tom and Lwere famous for awhile. Judge Thatcher, who was an importaneman in our town, kept my money in the bank for me. And the Widow Douglas took metolivein her house and said Icould be her son. She was very nice and kind, but it was a hard life because Ihad to wear new clothes and be good ll the time. In the end, put on my old clothes and ran away. But Tom came after me and said that I had to go back, but thar I could be in his gang of robbers. So, I went back, and the widow cried and I had to put on those new clothes again, I didn’t like it at all. Her sister, Miss ‘Watson, lived there too. She was always saying, ‘Don't put your feet there, Huckleberry,’ and ‘Don’t do that, Huckleberry.” It was terible ‘When went up to bed that night, Isat down ina chair by the window. Isat there a good long time, and I was really unhappy. But just after midnight I heard ‘mee-yow! mee- yow!” outside. Very softly, | answered, ‘mee-yow! mee- yow!” Quietly, I put out the light and got out through the ‘window. In te trees, Tom Sawyer was waiting for me. We went through the trees to the end of the widow's garden. Soon we were on topofabillon the otherside ofthe house. Below uswecould see theriverand the town. Oneor ‘wo lights were stil on, but everything was quiet. We went down theilland found Joe Harper, Ben Rogersand two or three more ofthe boys. Then Tom took usdowntheriverby 2 Huck in trouble boat tohis secret place, which was a cave deep in the side of ahill. When we got there, Tom told us al his plan, ‘Now, we'llhave this gang of robbers, hesaid, and we'll calli Tom Sawyer’s Gang, Ifsomebody hurts one of us, the others will kill him and his family. And if boy from the Tom's secret place was.a cave, deep in the side of abilHuckleberry Finn gang tells other people our secrets, we'll kill him and his family, too. We all thought this was wonderful, and we wrote our names in blood from our fingers. Then Ben Rogers said, “Now, what's the gang going to do?” “Nothing,” replied ‘Tom. ‘Just rob ani kill. We stop people onthe road, and we kill them, and take their money and things. But we can keep a few of the people, and then their friends can pay money to get them back. That’s what they do in the stories in books.” But Ben wasn’t happy. ‘What about women?” he asked. ‘Do we kill them, too?" “Oh, no,’ Tom answered. “We're very nice to them, and they all love us, and they don’t want to go home.’ “Then the cave wil be fll of women, and people waiting, and well have to watch them all night...” “Wel all go home now,’ Tom said, ‘and we'll meet next week, and well kill somebody and rob somebody. Ben wanted to begin on Sunday, but the others said no. It was bad to kill and rob on a Sunday. Myclothes were very dirty and was ery tired when got back. Of course, the next morning Miss Watson was angry with me because of my dirty clothes, but the widow just looked unhappy. Soonafterthat westopped playingrobbers because we never robbed people and we never killed them. 4 Huck in trouble Miss Watson was angry, but the widow jus looked unhappy. ‘Time went on and wintercame.Iwent to school mostofthe time and I was leaning to read and write a ile. It wasn’t toobad, and the widow was leased with me. Miss Watson hada slave, an old man called Jim, and he and | were good friends. Loften sat talking to fim, but till didn't ike living ina house and slepingina bed. 5Huckleberry Finn Then, one morning, there was some new snow on the sroundandoutsdethe back garden Icouldse footpeintsin the snow. I went out to look at them more carefully. They ‘were Pop's footprints! ae They were Pop’s footprints! A minute later, I was running down the hill to Judge ‘Thatcher's house. When he opened the door, I cried, ‘Sir, ‘want you to take all my money. L want to give itto you.’ 6 Huck in trouble He looked surprised. “Why, whats the matter?” “Please, sr, take it! Don’t ask me why!” Intheend he said, Well, youcan slit tome, then.” And hhegavemea dollarandl wrote my nameona piece of paper forhim. ‘That night when I went up to my room, Pop was siting there, waiting for met I saw thatthe window was open, 50 that was how he gorin. He wasalmost fifty andhe looked old. Hishair was ong and dirty and his face was a terrible white colour. His clothes were old and dirty, too, and two of his toes were comingthroughhisshoe. Helooked atmeallloverforalong time, and then he said, “Wel, just look at those clean, tidy clothes! And they ay youcanread and writenow. Whosaid youcould goto school?” “The widow ...’ Hbegan. “Oh, she did, did she? Wel, youcan forget about school, can’t read and your mother couldn’t read; no one in our family could read before they died,so whodoyou think you are? Go on, take that book and read to me!” T began to read, bute hitthe book and it flew out of my hhand, across the room. Then he shouted, “They say you're rich—how’s thar?” “Itisn’t true!” “You give me that money! I want it, Get it for me tomorrow!”Huckleberry Finos “Thaven’t got any money. Ask Judge Thatcher. Hel tell you. [haven't got any money: “Wel, give me what you've got in your pocket now. ‘Come on, give it tome! ‘T've only got a dollar, and I want that to. “Give ito me, do you hear?” He took it, and then he said he was going out to get a dink. When he was outside the window, he put his head back n and shouted, ‘And stop going othat school, or you know what you'll get!” The next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher to get my money. The judge wouldn't give it to him. BurPop didn’t stop ryingand every ew daysl gottwo cor three dollas from the judge to stop Pop from hitting me. But when Pop had money, he got drunk again and made trouble in town. He was always coming to the widow's Then Pop gotreally angry and one day he caught me and took me house, and she got angry and told him to stay away along way up the river in a boat. fhad to stay with him ina hut in the woods and I couldn’t go out by myself. He watched me all the time. The widow sent a man to find me and bring me home, but Pop went after him witha gun, and, the man ran away. Huck in trouble Thad to stay with bm ina but nthe woods2 Huck escapes and finds a friend M ostly it was a lazy, comfortable kind of life, but after about two months Pop began to hit me too much with hisstick. He often wentaway into town too, and then he always locked mein the hut. Once he was away for three days and I though I was never going to get out again. ‘When he came back that time, he was drunk and angry. ‘He wanted my money, but Judge Thatcher wouldn't give it tohim, The judge wanted to send me to live with the widow again, Poptold me. [wasn't very pleased aboutthat. didn't want to go back there. So I decided to escape and go down the river and live in the woods somewhere. When Pop was out, [began to cut a hole in the wooden wall ofthe hut. Ina few days, when the hole was bigger, [could take the wood out, escape through the hole, and put the wood back. ‘One morning Pop sent me down to the river to earch somefish for breakfast. Tomy surprise, there wasacanoein the water and there was no one in it. Immediately, Ijumped into theriverand brought the canoe tothe side. Irwas lucky thatPop didn’t see me, and decided tohide thecanoe under some trees and useit when I escaped. That afternoon, Pop locked me in and went off to town. 10 “He won't be back tonight,’ thought, so I began to work hard at my hole. Soon I could get out through it, and I carried food and drink and Pop’s gun down to the canoe. ‘Then [putback the wood tohide the hole, took the gun and "Huckleberry Finn ‘wentinto the woods. There shot wild pigand tookit hack to the hut with me. Next, I broke down the door with an axe, I carried the pig into the hut and put some ofits blood ‘on the ground. Then I put some big stones in a sack and pulled it along behind meto the river. Lastofall, Iputsome I broke down the door with an axe, 12 Huck escapes and finds. blood and some of my hair on the axe. Heft the axe in a corner ofthe hut and I took the pig down tothe river. “They won't know it’s only a pig inthe river, I said to myself. They'll think it’s me.” Then I took the canoe and went down the river to Jackson's Island. By chen ic was nearly dark, so I hid the ‘canoe under some tres and went to sleep. Itwasafter eighto’clock when Iwoke upthe nextday and the sun was high in the sky. 1 was warm and comfortable and didn’t want to getup. Suddenly, [heard a noise up the river, Carefully, looked through the trees, and Isaw a boat fullof people. There was Pop, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer and his Aunt Polly and his brother Sid, and lots of others. ‘They werelooking for my body in the river. watched them, but they didn’t see me, and in the end they went away. knew that nobody was going to come and look for me again. [found a good place under the trees to sleep and to put my things. Then Icaughta fish and cooked itover fire. Iived like that for three days, and then I decided to have «look round the island, So went into the woods. ‘This is my island,” I thought. I'm the only person on it Suddenly, justin front of me, Isaw a fire, and it was ill smoking. There was somebody on my island! I didn’ wait. Irurnedand went straight back. But couldn’tsleep. Aftera time, I said to myself,‘ can live like this. must find out who itis” BHuckleberry Finn Silently, I moved along the riverin my canoe, under the darkness ofthe trees. And then Istopped. Through the rees Icould seethelight ofa fire. fraid, left my canoeand went nearer. There was a man lying by the fre. Suddenly, he sat up and {saw that it was Jim, Miss Watson's slavet I was really happy o ee him! “Hello Jim,’ ered, and Ijumped ‘out from behind the tre. Jim fell this knees. ‘Please don'thureme! hecried. Te alaysbeen good dead peopl Jom fll ois knees. Please don’t burt me!’ he cred. 4 Huck escapes and finds a friend “Iesall eight, Jim. 'm not dead, Isaid. ‘Bue why are you here on the island? Lasked “Well, Huck," he began. ‘Old Miss Watson wanted to sell ‘me, A man came into town and told Miss Watson thathe'd >buy me for eight hundred dollars. She couldn’t say no, sol ran away. Iran down to the river to hide, but everybody in thetownwasthere. They said you were dead, Huck. Ihadto waitall day to getaway. When it was dark, got on toa big boat and hid. When we came near this island, Ijumped into the water and swam here.” Jim finished his story and then we both carried all our things intoa cave and hid the canoe under some trees. We ‘were justin time because then the rains came. It rained for days, andthe river gothigher and higher. ll kinds of things came down theriverand one nightthere wasa litle wooden hhouse, lying half on ts side. We got the canoe out and went totakealook. Through the window wecouldsee abed, wo old chairs and some old clothes. There was something lying inthe comerand we thought itlooked like aman, Jim went into see, buthe said, ‘He's dead. Someone shot him in the back. Don't look at his face, Huck. I's terrible!” I didn’t want to see the dead man’s face, so didn't look. We just took the old clothes and a few other things, and went back to our cave on the island. Another night, when we were out looking for things on theriver, wefoundaaft.twasmade of good, strong wood, 1sHuckleberry Finn and was about four metres by five metres. “This could be useful,'Tsaid to Jim, so we pulleditbackto the sland behind the canoe, and tied it up under the tres. Wetied the raft up under the ree. 3 Huck and Jim travel south ‘or some days everything went along quietly, but we were getting bored. We wanted to know winat was happening in town and so I decided to go and find out. jim said, Why don'tyou wear the old dress and the hatthat we found in the house? People won't know you, then. They'll think you're a gir” And so Lid, Just after i was dark, I got into the canoe and went up the river tothe bottom of the town. Ther, Hefthe eanoe and wenton fot. Before ong, leametoaltle house which was always empty. Now there was light on, and when I looked though the window, Isaw a woman of about forty. She was a stranger and that was good because she didn't know me, So knocked on the door. ‘I must remember that Tma girl Tsaid to myseli ‘The woman opened the door. ‘Come in,” she said. She lookedatme with herlitebrighteyes. What's yournam. she asked “Sarah Williams, I replied. ‘i'm going to see my uncle,on the other side of town. My mother’s ill, you see, and she needs help.” ‘Well, you can’t go there by yourself now. I's too dat. ‘My husband will be home in about an hour. Wait for him v7Huckleberry Finn Huck and Jim travel south and he'll walk with you.” ‘Andthen she began to tell meaboutallher troubles. was getting bored with al this until she said something about Pop and my murder. “Who did it?’ Tasked. “Well,’ she replied, ‘some people say’old Finn did it himself; other people think it was a slave who ran away that night. His name was Jim. They'llgive three hundred dollars to anybody who finds him and they'll give two hundred dollars for old Finn, He got drunk and left town ‘with two strangers. Alot of people think hekilled his boy and he’s going to come back one day, and get all Huck Finn's money.” “And what about the slave? I asked. “Oh, they'll soon catch him. People want the chree hhundred dollars. I think he’s on Jackson’s Island, you know. Pve seen smoke there. My husband’s gone to get two of his friends and they're going over there with a gun later tonight.” When heard this, my hands began toshake. The woman looked atme strangely, butthen she smiled and said kindly, “What did you say your name was?” “M-Mary Williams.” “Oh,’ she said, I thought it was Sarah.” “Er... wel, yes itis Sarah Mary Williams. Some people call me Sarah and some people call me Mary, you see. 18 “Oh, do they?’ She smiled again. Come on,now —what's your real name? Bill? Bob? Iknow you're not really agit.” So then I had to tll her another story, with a different ‘name, and said I was running away. She said she wouldn't tell anybody, and gave me some food before Ileft. hurried back to the island and Jim. “Quick, Jim’ Teried, waking him up. They'recoming ro gets!” ‘We got out the raftas fast as we could, put all our things ‘on it, tied the canoe on behind, and moved off down theHuckleberry Finn river, When it began to get light, we hid. When it was dark. again, wetravelled on. On the ith wepassed StLouis, and we decided to go on down to Cairo in Ilnois, sell the raft there and get a boat to Ohio. There are no slaves in Ohio. ‘We slept for most of that day and we bégan oar journey again when it was dark. After sometime, we saw lights on the Illinois side of the river and Jim got very excited. He thoughtit was Cairo. Jim got the canoe ready and | went off initto takea look at those lights. But it wasn’t Cairo After that, we went on down the river. Itwas very dark that night and it wasn't easy to sce where we were going Suddenly, a big teamboatcame at us very fastand the next rminuteitwasrightover us, Jimand ljumpedoffthe raftinto the water. The boat ht the raftand went on up the river. When I came up out of the water, I couldn’ see Jim anywhere. [ealled out his name again and again, but there ‘wasno answer. He's dead!” Ithought. lowly, Iswam othe side of the river and got out. Isaw that I was near a big old ‘wooden house. Suddenly alot of very angry dogs jumped ‘out at me. They made a terrible noise and someone called from the house, ‘Who's there?” ‘George Jackson,’ I answered quickly. river boat.” ‘Well, the people who lived in that house were very kind, and they took me in and gave me some new clothes and a ve fallen off a 20 Huck and Jim travel south ‘The next minute the steamboat was right over us 00d mea, [tld them chat my family werealldead,sothey said I could stay with ehem as long as I wanted. It was a beautiful house and the food was good there, oI stayed. ‘Afew dayslater one oftheslavesin thehousecameto me andsaid, ‘Come with me!’ Together, wewentdowntosome trees by the rive In there!he said and went away.Huckleberry Finn On the ground, [found a man, asleep. It was Jim! Lwas really pleased to see him. When the steamboat hit the raft, Jim told me, the raft dint break up. Jim swam after itand caught it. Then he began to look for me. We decided to leave at once. I'sall right livingin a house for a little while, but you feel more free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 4 The Duke and the King 'wo or three days and nights went by and nothing much happened. We travelled at night when it was dark and everybody was asleep. We didn’t want anyone to see Jim and ask questions about him, ‘Then, one morning, ust aftr it was light, found a litle canoe, so I got into it and went over tothe side ofthe river. Iwaslookinground, when, suddenly, women santhrough the trees “Help!” they cried. ‘There are men and dogs trying to catch us. Butwe've done nothing wrong!” (One of the men was about seventy years old; the other ‘was about thirty, and they both had very old, dirty clothes. 2 ‘The Duke and the King Isaid they could come with me, and we ran quickly back to the canoe. Back on the raft we talked fora time and then the young ‘man said, ‘My friends, think Ican tll you my seeret now Vm really a duke, My grandfather was the son of che Duke ‘of Bridgewater, buthe left England and came to America ‘When the old Duke dled my grandfather's younger brother stoleeverythingandmadehimselthe Duke of Bridgewater” ‘Well, of course, we were all very unhappy for our friend theDuke, buthesaid, "lle happierifyoudo things forme. Bring me my dinnee ‘So we di things for him, and he liked. But the old man Bring me my dinner” said the Duke. 2BHuckleberry Finn spoke ery litieandhe looked unhappy,too, Afteratime he said, Youknow, Bridgewater 200, havea secret” And he bezan to ery “What do you mean? the Duke asked. ‘What's your ‘And then the old man told us thar he was really the ist son ofthe Kingof France. Heaskedusalltogo down onone knee when we spoke to him. We could call him ‘Your Majesty’,too. So that was what we did, and they were both hhappy. Ofcourse, knew thatthey weren'reallya dukeand aking, but I didn tel Jim, I's best ifeverybody is happy when you're living rogether on a raft The King and the Duke were very intrestedin Jim. ‘Ishe slave?’ they wanted ro know. Ise running away? Thadtotelthemsomething, oT saidthat jimbelonged:o ‘my unele and was aking me to my family in New Orleans. “Well, we'll travel down river with you, then’ said the King. ‘We'll have a fine time together. So the four of us went on down the river, but Jim and T didhn’clike those wo men. They were always getting drunk and making plansto get money outof people in every town. Iesallrightto akea chicken orsomethingifyou'rehungry, butthesemen were eally bad! JimandIdecidedto getaway from them as soon as we could. Ie wasn't easy because they wanted to be with usa the time, ‘Then one morningthe King went offincoatownandtold 4 The Duke and the King us to wait for him. We waited all morning and he didn't come back, so the Duke and I went into town to look for him. We looked all afternoon and inthe end we found him ina bar, drunk, and then he and the Duke began to fight albout some money. “Now we can get away from them,’ I thought. I earned, We found the King ina bar, dank 2sHuckleberry Finn and ran back to the river. ‘Quick, Jim!" I shouted. T's time to go!” Buc there was no answer, fim wasn'ethere! Traninto the woods,cryingand shouting imm’sname. But there wasstil no answer Just then a boy came along, ‘Have you seen a slave?” I asked him, and I described Jim. “Why, yes, the boy replied. He’sa runaway lave. heard all about itn town. A family called the Phelpses have got himnow. Anold man ina bartold Mr Phelps that there was «a runaway slave on a raft down by the river. He said he hhada’tgottime to rake the slave back himself. So Mr helps gave him forty dollars and they went down and caught the slave this afternoon. The Phelpses are going to take him back to his owner, and they'll get three hundred dollars for bien? [knew those two men were bad! Iasked the boy where the Phelpses lived and he said it was big white housealitle ‘way down the river. Thegantomakeplanstoget Jimback. First Itook theraft andwent down toalitteisland, [hid the raft under the trees and lay down to sleep. Before it was light, went off down the river in the canoe. When I thought I was near the Phelpses’ place, stopped, got outof the canoe and went up to the house, Suddenly, a lot of dogs ran out. They came from everywhere and they made a terrible nose. ‘Awoman about fifty years old ran outof the house, with 26 The Duke and the King some litte children behind her. She was smiling all overher faceand she took me by thehandsandcried,'I'syou,atlast, isn't?” | didn’t stop to think, “Yes, ma'am,’ said ‘She was smiling all over ber face. 27Huckleberry Finn “Well, what took you so long? We thought you were coming two days ago. Your Uncle Silas goes to own every day tomeetyou. He’stherenow,buthe'llbe back soon.’ She didn’t stop talking and I couldn't tell her that she was making a mistake. ‘Tell us all about them,’ she cred. “Tell sme everything.” Tknew then thatThadtotellher... utjusethenshecried, ‘Here he ist Quick, hide!” and she pushed me inside the house and behind the frontdoor. Then herhusbandcame in and she asked him, ‘Has he come?" “No, her husband replied. “Look!” she shouted, and then she pulled me out from behind the door. “Why, who's that?” Mr Phelps cried, surprised. ‘Ie’s Tom Sawyer!” she laughed, 3 The plan to free Jim hhen Theard that, nearly fellthrough the floor, butit vwas big piece of luck. Itwaseasy forme tobe Tom Sawyer because Tom was my best friend. He and his brother Sid lived with their Aunt Polly up in St Petersburg, 28 ‘The plan to free Jim and knewallabout hem. Now Hleamethat Aunt Polly bad a sister, who was Mrs Phelps. She and her husband were ‘Tom's Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas. And Tom was coming down south by boat to stay with them fora bit We all sat there talking and I could answer all their ‘questions about the Sawyer family. I was feeling really ‘We all sat there talking and I could answer all their questions 29Huckleberry Finn The plan to free Jim happy about this when suddenly theard a boat on the river. “Tom could be on that boat,’ I thought, ‘and he’s going to walkin hereandcall out myname beforelcan stop him. I've got to go and meet him.” Solltold the Phelpses that | would go into town togeemy bags, which were at che boat station. Iuitied up the road and before I was halfway to town, there was Tom Sawyer coming along ‘When he saw me, his mouth fell open andhe looked a bit white in the face. ‘Aren't you dead?” he said. ‘Everybody said that you were murdered!” ‘Ym not dead yet, Isai, ‘but listen...’ [told him about my adventures, and Tom loved all that. Then I told him about the Phelpses and thar they thought I was Tom Sawyer. ‘What shall we do?” asked him. ‘Tom thought for a bit, and then he said, ‘I know. You takemy bagsandsay they're yours.I'llcometothe house in about halfan hour.” “Allright Isaid, ‘but there's another thing. You know ‘old Miss Watson's slave Jim, who ran away? Well, he’s a prisoner here, and I'm going to help him escape.” Before Lwas halfway 10 town, there was “Tom Sawyer coming along. 31Huckleberry Finn The plan to free Jim ‘Jim? Tom said. ‘But he's Then he stopped and thought. ‘Right. ll help, oo. 'ilmake a really good plan.” He looked very excited. Sol went back tothe house withthe bags, and Tom came along halfan hour later. He knockedon the door and when his Aunt Sally opened it, he said he was Sid, Tom's brother. He wanted his vist to be a surprise for his dear old Aunt Sally, he said Well, Aunt Sally was very pleased tosce Tomand Sid. She thought it was wonderful. She and Uncle Silas were really nice people. ‘When we werealone later, Tom and [talked about Jims scape. [said Lhad a plan, and Tom listened to it. “It’s a good plan,’ he said when I finished, ‘But it’s too casy! es gor to be areal escape, like areal adventure in a story-book, So we want something difficuleand dangerous. Now; listen to this.” So he told me his plan. I knew it would be a good one because Tom’s plans are always crazy and exciting. ‘And wesurehadalotoffun with that plan! Weknew that Jimwaslocked upin a hut outside the house. Every night we gotout through our bedroom window and duga hole right under the wall ofthe hut. Irtook usa week, and it was hard work. Weralked to imsecretly and told himaboutheplan, and he was rally pleased. ‘Wealso wrote secret letters to everybody. Tom said that 32 We dug. hole right under the wall ofthe hut 33Huckleberry Fi people always do this in books. We wrote that there was a gang of slavethieves coming up from the south. They ‘wanted to steal Jim and get the three hundred dollars from his owner. Well, the Phelpses and their friends got very excited, nd on the nightoftheescape I wentintothesitting- room, and there wasacrowd of meninthefe—ll with guns! Iran and told Tom, and he said that this was really good, “Ie’sa real adventure now, all right, he said, very excited. “Perhaps they'll come after us, and shoor, and we'll all get killed!” 34 The plan to free jim Well, there wasn’t time to think about it because ital happened so quickly. We gor Jim out through the hole under the wall, and began to run down to the river. But the ‘menheard usandcameafterus. They began toshoot, and so ‘weranasfastas wecould tothe canoe. Wegot initand went ‘over to Spanish Island. My raft was there, and our plan was, toescapeon that and go.on down river. We ramas fast as we could tothe cance. 35Huckleberry Finn ‘Now, Jim, Leried, you're free man!” We were all very happy, but Tom was the happiest of all, because he had a bullet in his le, ‘When Jim and I heard that, we weren't so happy. Tom wanted the adventure to go on, but Jim and I said that doctor must look at Tom’s leg. Tom was getting angry about this, bu Jim sad “Youlisten to me, Tom Sawyer. You say P'ma free man now,and perhaps Lam. Butold Jim isnot goingtorun away and leave one of is fiends witha bulletin his legt So I'm staying right here until a doctor comes.’ T knew Jim would say that. He was a good, true friend, and you can't say that about many people. ‘Well that was theend oftheadventure,ceally.Iwentand founda doctor in the town, He wasa kind old man, and he said he would go over tothe island. But Tom's leg got very bad, and the next day the doctor and some other men carried Tom hometo the Phelpses' house. They brought im +00, and they locked him up inthe hut again. But the doctor said, ‘Be kind to him, because he didn't run away and he stayed to help me with the boy.” They took Tom up tobed because is leg was really bad, ‘and Aunt Sally sat with him while he slept. [didn’t want to answer any questions so Ikept out of everybody's way. ‘When Tom woke up the next day, he felt better. wasin the room and he said to me, ‘jimn’sall right, isnt he? 36 The plan to free jim ‘They carried Tom home tothe Phelpses' house “and they browghe fins 100. 37Huckleberry Finn I didn’t know what to say because Aunt Sally was listening, and before I could stop him, Tom went on: ‘Weedid i, Aunt Sally. Me and Tom here. We helped Jim «eseape.” He told her all about the digging and everything, and AuntSally’s mouth was opening and closing ikea fish. ‘Then she got really angry with Tom. “That slave slocked up again and he’sgoingco stay there. And ifeatch you again— Tom suddenly sat upinbed.“Youcan’tdothat!hecried. ‘Jim was old Miss Watson’s slave, but she died ewo months ago. Before she died, she wrote that she wanted Jim to be free,and notaslaveany more Jims free man, notaslavel” Well, that was a surprise to me and Aunt Sally! She ‘thought Tom was crazy. ‘But Sid, why did you help him to escape, ifhe was free already? she said. “wanted the adventure, ofcourse!’ said Tom. ‘We made a realy exciting plan and.... Oh my! ... AUNTPOLLY? ‘Wetumned round, and there was Toms Aunt Polly inthe doorway! That was the second big surprise. Aunt Sally was really pleased to see her sister, and jumped up to put her arms ound her.1 got under the bed as fast as Icould. There ‘was trouble coming for me and Tom, that was for sure. Then AuntPollysaidto Tom, ‘You always werea terrible boy, Tom Sawyer, and I wantto know— “But Polly dear, said Aunt Sally, ‘this isn't Tom. It's Sid. ‘Tom was here a minute ago. Whereis he?” 8 ‘The plan to free Jim “Where's Huck Finn, you mean,” replied Aunt Polly “Come out from under that bed, Huck Finn.” oes a Paty Some ut fom der tht ed, Hack in 39Huckleberry Finn So Tom and I had to explain everything. Aunt Polly said that Aunt Sally wrote and told her that Tom and Sid were there, She knew that ie wasn't true, so she decided to come and find out what was happening. But she sai that it was true about Miss Watson and that Jim wasa free man now. ‘We gor Jim out ofthe hut and Aune Sallfand Uncle Silas werereallynicetohim, Later, Tom, jimandIhadalongtalk aX vd | ! “Let's go and have adventures inthe wild country down south.” 40 by ourselves. Tomzalkedlandtalked,andthen hesaid, Let's all three of us run away one night, and go and have adventures in the wild country down south.” Tesounded like a good plan to me. The only thing is 1 said, ‘haven't got any money to buy the right clothes and things. All my money back in St Petersburg will bein Pop's pockets by now. ‘No,'said Tor. ‘Your money’sallthere. Your Popnever came back.’ “No, and he won't come back, Huck,’ Jim said. “You remember that dead man on the river, when I said “Don't look athis face”? Well,thatwas your Pop. Youcan get your money when you want.” Tom’s leg is almost better now, and I haven't got any ‘moreto writeabout. I'm really pleased about that because it was very dfficultto writea bookand won't itagain. Bur I think 'm going to have to run away before the others, because Aunt Sally wants me to live with her. I'l have to sleep ina bed and wear clean clothes and learn to be good, and Lean’t do that again. P've done it once already. ‘The End Yours Truly Hock FinnGLOSSARY baller you fice thie from a gun clean not dity crazy not knowing what you ae doing drunk with too much alcohol inside you ‘duke a man who is the head ofa very importine family ‘gang. a group of people who sometimes do bad things rogcther jndge someone who decides fa person isa criminal or not king the most important man in a country Tie(n) something you say that i not tue Majesty. you call aking “Your Majesty” when you speak to him ‘owner the person something or someone belongs to Pop an American word fr father rob to steal robber. somcone who seals slave a person who belongs to someone and has to work, but et no money widow a woman whose husband is dead 2 Huckleberry Finn ACTIVITIESACTIVITIES Before Reading 1 Read the back cover and the story introduction on the fist page of the book. What do you know now about ‘Huckleberry Finn? Tick one box each time. 1. Huck liked school og 2 Huck went to lve with a woman called ‘Widow Douglas ood 3 Hlck’s father was kind to hi ao 4 Huck ran away. oo 5 Huck’s frend Jim was a slave, Gl ci 6 Huck and Jim travelled down the Mississippi og 7 Jim had 300 dollars. (al 2 What is going to happen in the story? Can you guess? Tick cone box for each sentence. 1 Huck goes back to live with the Widow Douglas. 2 Huck's father dies. 3 Huck and Jim find alot of money. 44 Huck and Jim fall in the river 5 Huck and Jim meet some bad men. Jo0000 oooooo 6 Jim goes back to his owner. “4 ACTIVITIES While Reading Read Chapter 1, Answer these questions. 1 How much money did Huck and his friend Tom have? 2 Why wasn’t Huck’s father a good father? 3 Why didn’t Huck like living with the Widow Douglas? 4 Who was Miss Watson? 5 What was Tom's gang going to do? 6 Why did the gang stop playing robbers? 7 Who did Jim belong to? 8 Why did Huck give his money to Judge Thatcher? 9 Why did Huck’s father want money? 10 Where did Huck’s father take him? [Read Chapter 2. Put these sentences in the correct order. 1 Then one night, Huck found Jim lying by a fie, & 2. Hock’ father locked him in the hut. - 3 Huck lived alone on the island for three days, 4 Bur Huck got out through a hole inthe wall of che hut.” 5 Another night, Huck and Jim found a raft in the river. ~ 6 After that, Huck went to Jackson's Island in a canoe. Ly 7 After the rains, Huck and Jim saw a dead man in the 8 Then Huck shot a pig and put its blood in the hut. 3, 45scrim: While Reading [Read Chapter 3. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F? Rewrite the false ones with the correct information, 1 Huck pura girl's dress and hat on, 2 The woman in the litle house knew Huck, 3 People in the town believed that Huck was dead. 4 If someone catches Jim, they will get fve-hundred dollars 5 The woman knew thar Huck wasn't really a gic. 6 Huck and Jim wanted to go to Ohio, 7 The steamboat hit Huck and Jim. 8 The people in the big, old house were kind to Huck, 9 The raft broke up when the steamboat hie it 10 Jim and Huck decided to stay with the people in the big house. Read Chapter 4. Who said this, and to whom? “There are men and dogs trying ro catch us." “1m really a duke. “We'll havea fine time together.” “Tes rime to go! 1 3 4 5 ‘He's a runaway slave!” 6 ‘les you, at last, isnt it? 7 es Tom Sawyer!” actives: While Reading Before you read Chapter 5 (The plar to free Jim), can you guest what happens? Write Y (yes) or Nino) by each 1 Huck does not tell Me and Mrs Phelps his name, and they believe thar he is Tom Sawyer. 2 Tom Sawyer arrives and says that he is Huck Finn. 3 Tom and Huck make a hole under the wall of the hut. 4 Jim runs away and the boys never see him again. 5 Someone shoots Jim 6 Jim is sent back to Miss Watson and the Phelpses get three hundred dollars 7 Jim becomes a free man. Read Chapter 5. Choose the best question-word for these questions, and then answer them. Who! Why / Where did Tom and his brother Sid live? ‘was Mrs Phelps’ sister? _ was Tom surprised to see Huck? did Tom tell Mes Phelps that he was? «didn’t Tom like Huck’s plan to help Jim? was Jim locked up? did Tom and Huck write secret letters to everybody? was Tom happy when they got in the canoe? was Jima free was the dead man in the river? aACTIVITIES After Reading 1 Huck n ide people think that he was dead. Imagine that Huck’s father told Judge Thatcher what he found at his hut Fill inthe gaps using these words, axe, blood, broken, door, floor, ground, hair, killed, pulled, river ‘When I came back from town, the _-L went inside and sav nthe and there was an_in the corner. I think that someone ‘eame to the hut and _ Huck with the axe, because there was blood and___on it. Then they ___ his body along the __t0 the of the hut was ut these words into two groups: words about the river and words about adventure. Then choose two words from each list and use them in sentences of your own, Dulles, canoe, fish, gang, kil, steamboat, swim, water 48 (Cadvencure—] ft robbers, shoot, ste, Afr Rewsi 3 Here is a new illustration for the story. Find the best place in the story to put the picture, and answer these questions ‘The picture goes on page 1 Who is looking through the window of the use? 2 Who is inside the house? 3. What is he looking at? [Now write a caption forthe illustration. Caption ”Acrwvrtes: After Reading 4 Tom told Huck his plan co free Jim. Here is their conversation, but itis in the wrong order. Writ it out i the correct order and put in the speakers’ names. Tom speaks first (oumber 3). 1 __ ‘Letters? Bue what will we write in our eters?” 2 __'Noy they won't. Well doit at night.” 3 ‘Now listen to this. Jim is locked up in a hur. We ‘must get him out.” 4 "Yes, but we'll ell him our plan, I know he'll be pleased. But we must make i really dangerous, lke in a book.” 3 They write secret letters.” 6 ‘We can run to the river, get into the canoe, and ‘#0 to Spanish Island to get the raft” 7 ___ ‘But the Phelpses will see us.” 8 __ ‘Very exciting. But how will we escape if they're shooting ar us?" 9 __*How are we going to do that?” 10 __‘What do people do in books 11 _*Well dig a hole under the wall ofthe hut.” 2 ___‘fim will hear us, won’e he? 13 __‘Well write that a gang of slave-thieves wants to steal Jim and get the money. Then they'll ry to stop tus, Perhaps they'll shoot us. Won't that be exciting?” acniiriss: After Reading. 5 People keep a lor of secrets and tell alo of lies i this story. What things did people say, or not say? Complete these sentences. Use as many words as you like. 1 Jim did’ ell Huck that | 2 Huck told che wornan in te litle house that 53 The Dulke told Huck and Jim thae, | 4 The King told Huck an Jim shar. 5 Hick da’ cll Ji that. | 6 Huck told the Duke and the King that i 7 Huck told the people inthe big old house thar 8 Huck didn’t tell Mrs Phelps that 9 Tom didn’t tell Huck that ‘complete your sentences. bad Huck | brave Tom clever the Duke and the King stupid Example: Pop was bad because he hit Huck, 6 What do you think of the people in the story? Make sentences from the chart. Use as many words as you like to | stABOUT THE AUTHOR ‘Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens. He was born in Florida, a town in Missouri, USA, in 1835 and he then lived in Hannibal, Missouri. When he was twelve, his father did, and he went out to work. He began to wite for his brother's newspaper and later he wrote for newspapers in Nevada and California. From 1857 t0 1861, he was a riverpilr, guiding river boats on the great Mississippi river, The name “Mark “Twain” came from his life on the Mississippi. The riverpilors called out words like these to the captain of the boat, and ‘mark twain’ meant that there were two fathoms of water (about four metres) under the boat. He started to write books of storis in 1867 and became famous for making poople laugh. The Adventures of Tom Saueyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1884) ace his two most famous books. Many of che people and places in these stores are from the years when Mark Twain was a boy in Hannibal (Hannibal i the town of Se Petersburg in this story). ‘Mark Twain wrote many books. Some of them were important, some not so important, and he travelled to many English-speaking countries, talking about his work. Sadly, he had money problems, and his wife and two of his three daughters died before him, so his life was diffcule and "unhappy when he was older. 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Several othe sie are link to she oro soouRORNS ume AR They range from highly seated reader for young leaeners, 0 playsxps, tonto readers and unsmiplied rests for advanced lames Oxford Bookworms Starers (Oxford Bookworms Factfler Oxford Bookworms Pleycripts _Osford Bookworms Colleton Decals f thee sees anda il it fall idk inthe onvonDnooxronls _utany canbe found inthe Osfrd Engh cataloges. A election of es ftom the con roocwonne iar canbe found onthe ex pages. 3The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Retold by Nick Bullard “Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants co get cut of bed in the morning. Bur he likes ‘swimming and fshing, and having adventures sith his friends ‘And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and hs friend Huck Finn go tothe graveyard to look for ghosts. * They don't see any ghosts that night. They see somerhing ‘worse than a ghost much, much worse Robinson Crusoe Retold by Diane Mowat “Toften walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I wene over to Jook at it more carefully... It was a footprint ~ the footpeint of a man!” In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. Aker fifteen yeats alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man bea friend ~ oF an enemy? 54 The Jungle Book Retold by Ralph Mowat In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Woll-Pack has new cub. Heis nora welfheis Moweli,a human child, bat he knows nothingof the world of men. He ives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy Kipling’s famous story of Mowli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundcd years, The Children of the New Forest CAPTAIN MARRYAT Retold by Rowena Akinyeri England in 1647: King Charles sin prison, and Cromwell's men ae Fighting the King’s men. These are dangerous times for everbody. ‘The four Beverley children have no parents; their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house ~ withthe children i it. “The four of them escape into the New Forest ~ but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromell’s soldiers find them? ssA Stranger at Green Knowe Wer aM. sosTox Retold by Dime Mowat ‘When Ping ses Hanno inthe 200, hes excited but ako happy. Hanno isa magnificent Afvican gorilla, big and black and snuck ‘stronger than a man. Buc how can this wonderful will animal lve ina cage, behind base and locked doors? ‘Then Hanno eseapes from the 290. And a few days later his foogprinns are seen near Green Knows, the old house deep in the English countryside where Ping is spending his holiday The Call of the Wild JACK LONDON Retold by Nick Ballad ‘When men find gold ia the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs ~ big, strong dogs to pull he sledgeson the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Back is stolen from his home inthe sounh and sold as a sledge dog: He has to lear a new way of life how to work in hatness, how to stay live inthe ice and the snow ... and how to fight Because when a dog falls doven ina fight, he never gets up agai, 56