tory
I. I Discover Moses and the Bulrushers.
II. Our Gang's Dark Oath
III. We Ambuscade the A-rabs
IV. The Hair-ball Oracle
V. Pap Starts in on a New Life
VI. Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
VII. I Fool Pap and Get Away
VIII. I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
IX. The House of Death Floats By
X. What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
XI. They're After Us!
XII. "Better Let Blame Well Alone"
XIII. Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
XIV. Was Solomon Wise?
XV. Fooling Poor Old Jim
XVI. The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
XVII. The Grangerfords Take Me In
XVIII. Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
XIX. The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
XX. What Royalty Did to Parkville
XXI. An Arkansaw Difficulty
XXII. Why the Lynching Bee Failed
XXIII. The Orneriness of Kings
XXIV. The King Turns Parson
XXV. All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
XXVI. I Steal the King's Plunder
XXVII. Dead Peter has His Gold
XXVIII. Overreaching Don't Pay
XXIX. I Light Out in the Storm
XXX. The Gold Saves the Thieves
XXXI. You Can't Pray a Lie
XXXII. I Have a New Name
XXXIII. The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
XXXIV. We Cheer Up Jim
XXXV. Dark, Deep-laid Plans
XXXVI. Trying to Help Jim
XXXVII. Jim Gets His Witch-pie
XXXVIII. "Here a Captive Heart Busted"
XXXIX. Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
XL. A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
XLI. "Must 'a' Been Sperits"
XLII. Why They Didn't Hang Jim
Chapter the Last. Nothing More to Write

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author
Huckleberry Finn
"'Gimme a Chaw'"
Tom Advises a Witch Pie

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 th