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Chapter 41:  Huck goes off the island to find a doctor for Tom.  The doctor goes to the island on the canoe, which only holds one person.  The next day, Huck encounters Silas.  Silas takes Huck back to the farm.  The home is full other farmers and their wives discussing the escape.  Sally refuses to let Huck go find Tom.  She was very upset over the loss of them once.  Huck promises not to hurt Sally again.

Chapter 42:  Tom arrives back at the farm with Jim and the doctor.  Jim is returned to the shed and treated very badly.  Sally is very delighted that Tom is getting better.  Tom tells Huck that he had been stealing the letters from Polly to Sally.  One letter said that Miss Watson died and let Jim go free.  Polly shows up at the farm.  After the reunion, she yells at the two boys for lying to Sally.

Chapter 43: Huck asks Tom why he tried to set Jim free when Tom already knew Jim was free.  Tom planned to have the adventure and then pay back Jim later.  When the doctor tells Polly and the Phelps family about how Jim nursed Tom, they immediately released Jim.  Tom fully recovers and wears the bullet as a necklace.  Huck finds out that the dead body he and Jim found on the river was his Pap.  Finally, Huck decides to head out west.

 
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Chapter 39:  Huck and Tom caught rats and snakes for Jim's shed.  On accident, the Phelps' house is infested.  Sally is panicked over the disorder.  Meanwhile, Jim can hardly move in the shed because of all the animals.  Uncle Silas had heard anything about Jim.  He decides to advertise Jim in two newspapers, St. Louis and New Orleans.  Tom writes a letter pretending to be a friend to warn of trouble for the Phelps'.  The letter is very detailed. 

Chapter 40:  Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas were shaken by the letter and send Huck and Tom to bed right after dinner.  The entire town came to the house that night with guns.  The men attack the shed while Huck, Tom, and Jim are in it.  The three manage to escape to the raft.  Tom is super excited to have a bullet in his leg.



 
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Chapter 35:  Tom is disappointed that there are no big obstacles protecting Jim and wants to create the obstacles himself.  Instead of just lifting the bed to remove Jim's chains, Tom wants to saw the chains off.  Tom makes a list of things they "need" to free Jim.  These items included a rope ladder, a moat, and a shirt.  The boys are pressed for time, so they will use kitchen knives.  Despite the plans need for stealing, Tom reprimands Huck for stealing a watermelon from the slaves' garden.

Chapter 36:  The boys try to dig their way to Jim with the kitchen knives but switch to pick axes.  The next day, the boys gather candlesticks, spoons, and tin plates.  According to Tom, all of the objects are necessary.  That night, Huck and Tom reach Jim.  Jim does not understand the fancy plan, but he agrees to go along.  Tom convinces Jim's keeper to "get rid of the witches" by baking a witch pie.  In the pie, the boys plan to put the rope ladder.

Chapter 37:  Aunt Sally begins to notice that some of he things were missing.  She blames everyone but Huck and Tom.  Aunt Sally believes that the rats might have stolen some of the items.  Before Uncle Silas goes to plug the rat holes, Huck and Tom plug the rat holes.  This makes Uncle Silas very confused.  Huck and Tom take and replace the sheets and candlesticks.  Aunt Sally gets very befuddled and loses track of how many of each item she has.  The boys finally succeed with their witches pie.

Chapter 38:  Tom wants Jim to inscribe his coat of arms in the shed.  However, Tom is disappointed that the inscription will not be in stone.  Huck and Tom try to steal a millstone but it was too heavy.  The boys sneak Jim out to help.  Jim and Huck move the millstone while Tom directs.  Tom tries to convince Jim to tame a snake or rat and grow a flower in his tears.  Jim objects to the ideas.  Tom believes his ideas will lead to greatness.

 
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Chapter 32:  Huck goes to the Phelp's farm to look for Jim.  The lady of the house, Sally, believes that Huck is her nephew, Tom.  Huck pretends to be Tom to conceal his identity and tells Sally he was late because a cylinder blew up on the steamboat.  Sally's husband, Silas, is enthusiastic to see "Tom".  Silas's greeting reveals that the Tom they are talking about is Tom Sawyer.  Huck goes to the dock "to get his luggage" and find the real Tom.

Chapter 33:  While walking down the road, Huck meets up with Tom's wagon.  It takes some convincing to get Tom to believe Huck is alive.  In addition, Tom agrees to help Huck free Jim.  Silas and Sally are very excited to have another guest.  At dinner, Sally's sons ask to see "The Royal Nonesuch"  Silas tells them that "the runaway" said the show was a con.  When Huck and Tom sneak out that night, they see the duke and dauphin being run out of town, tarred and feathered. 

Chapter 34:  Tom recalls one of the slaves taking food to a shed and reasons that Jim is in the shed.  Huck is impressed and creates a simple plan to retrieve Jim.  Tom wants a more complicated plan.  His plan is showier but could get the three killed.  Huck and Tom convince Jim's keeper to take them to Jim.  When Jim recognizes the two, he cries out.  Tom uses the keeper's superstition against him and says the cry was the work of witches. 

 
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Chapter 29:  The real Harvey Wilks explains why he and his brother were delayed.  Again, Doctor Robinson calls the duke and dauphin frauds.  The town takes both pairs to the tavern to interrogate them.  The dauphin and the real Harvey describe a tattoo on Peter Wilks's body.  The undertaker, who was supposed to confirm who was right, said he did not see a tattoo.  The townspeople dig up the coffin for an answer and they find the gold.  In the excitement, Huck and Jim get away and back on the river.  Then the duke and dauphin reach the boat.

Chapter 30:  The dauphin nearly murders Huck for leaving.  Fortunately, the duke stops the dauphin.  The duke and dauphin escaped during the gold frenzy.  Both of the con men believes the other hid the gold in the coffin.  The men almost start a physical fight.  Eventually, the two make up and go to sleep.

Chapter 31:  The foursome floated down the river for several days to outrun any rumors about them.  Jim is captured and sold to a local farmer.  A boy showed Huck the fake wanted poster that was printed for Jim.  Huck debates whether or not to write to Miss Watson.  Finally, He decides to steal Jim out of slavery.  Huck runs into the duke on the way to the farm.  The duke slips up and tells Huck where Jim actually is.  Then, the duke makes up a story about Jim being forty miles away.  The duke really tried to encourage Huck to make the three day trip to "find" Jim.

 
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Chapter 25:  The duke and dauphin go to the Wilks home and meet Peter Wilks's three nieces.  Huck does not like this idea at all.  A letter written by Peter states that his two brothers get land and $3,000.  The three nieces received the house and $3,000.  The duke and dauphin find the money and count it.  The money is a little short, so the dauphin and duke add some of their own money.  The two men give all the money to the three girls.  Doctor Robinson calls the two men fakes.  The nieces show their belief by giving the duke and dauphin the $6,000 to invest.

Chapter 26:  The dauphin arranges for the group to stay in the Wilks house.  Johanna, the youngest niece, tests Huck's knowledge of England.  She is yelled at by the other two.  Huck feels awful about stealing money from a sweet woman.  He goes into the con men's room and takes the $6,000.  Huck takes the money to his sleeping cubby, and he sneaks out that night.

Chapter 27:  Huck hid the money in the dead man's coffin.  At the funeral, the undertaker seals the coffin without looking inside.  Huck is unsure of what to do.  The dauphin sells the estate and slaves.  He told the women that he would take them to England.  The missing money is blamed on the slaves.  The women are very upset that the slave family was separated.

Chapter 28:  Huck finds Mary Jane in her room crying for the slaves.  Overwhelmed, Huck blurts out the fact that the slaves would be reunited soon.  After thinking it over, Huck tells Mary Jane the whole truth.  To keep the plan a secret until Huck could get away, Mary Jane goes to a friend's house.  Later that day, a mob interrupt the auctioning of the Wilks family possessions.  Two of the men in the mob claim to be the real Harvey and William Wilks.

 
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Chapter 21:  The duke and the king work on their scenes from Romeo and Juliet and Richard III.  In addition, the duke works on the "To be, or not to be" speech from Macbeth.  Both of the men did not know their lines very well.  Huck believed the duke had talent.  The group visits a small town in Arkansas.  The duke advertises for the performance.  Huck witnesses a shoot out.  One man is killed and the other is going to be put to death.

Chapter 22:  Sherman, the man to be put to death, is greeted by a lynch mob at his home.  He has a riffle in his hands.  The man gives a speech and every one disperses.  Later in the day, Huck goes to the circus.  He enjoyed it very much.  Huck felt for the man in the tiger cage and had to look away.

Chapter 23:  The duke and the dauphin perform to a full audience.  However, the audience almost attacks the two men after the brief show ended.  The people felt they were ripped off and were very embarrassed.  To ensure every person in town felt the same way, the audience convinced more people to go to the second show, which was also full.  The third show, everyone came back for revenge.  After their three-night run, the group left the town with $465.  On the raft, Jim thinks about his family.  Huck concludes that Jim loves his family as much as a white man.

Chapter 24:  The group continues down the river to another town.  Jim is tired of being tied up on the raft while the rest go around the town.  The duke disguises Jim with blue face paint and a stage robe.  A sign saying "Sick Arab- but harmless when not out of his head" is posted on Jim.  The dauphin wants to make a big entrance in the next town.  Huck and the dauphin board a steam ship several miles away.  On the ship they meet a man who talks about a recently deceased man, Peter Wilks.  Wilks sent for his two brothers in England before he died and left a great deal of land to them.  The dauphin is able to learn many details about the deceased man's two brothers.  After reaching the next town, the dauphin and the duke impersonate the two brothers from England.