ILLUSTRATIONS
Tom Sawyer
Tom at Home
Aunt Polly Beguiled
A Good Opportunity
Who’s Afraid
Late Home
Jim
’Tendin’ to Business
Ain’t that Work?
Cat and Toys
Amusement
Becky Thatcher
Paying Off
After the Battle
“Showing Off”
Not Amiss
Mary
Tom Contemplating
Dampened Ardor
Youth
Boyhood
Using the “Barlow”
The Church
Necessities
Tom as a Sunday-School Hero
The Prize
At Church
The Model Boy
The Church Choir
A Side Show
Result of Playing in Church
The Pinch-Bug
Sid
Dentistry
Huckleberry Finn
Mother Hopkins
Result of Tom’s Truthfulness
Tom as an Artist
Interrupted Courtship
The Master
Vain Pleading
Tail Piece
The Grave in the Woods
Tom Meditates
Robin Hood and his Foe
Death of Robin Hood
Midnight
Tom’s Mode of Egress
Tom’s Effort at Prayer
Muff Potter Outwitted
The Graveyard
Forewarnings
Disturbing Muff’s Sleep
Tom’s Talk with his Aunt
Muff Potter
A Suspicious Incident
Injun Joe’s two Victims
In the Coils
Peter
Aunt Polly seeks Information
A General Good Time
Demoralized
Joe Harper
On Board Their First Prize
The Pirates Ashore
Wild Life
The Pirate’s Bath
The Pleasant Stroll
The Search for the Drowned
The Mysterious Writing
River View
What Tom Saw
Tom Swims the River
Taking Lessons
The Pirates’ Egg Market
Tom Looking for Joe’s Knife
The Thunder Storm
Terrible Slaughter
The Mourner
Tom’s Proudest Moment
Amy Lawrence
Tom tries to Remember
The Hero
A Flirtation
Becky Retaliates
A Sudden Frost
Counter-irritation
Aunt Polly
Tom justified
The Discovery
Caught in the Act
Tom Astonishes the School
Literature
Tom Declaims
Examination Evening
On Exhibition
Prize Authors
The Master’s Dilemma
The School House
The Cadet
Happy for Two Days
Enjoying the Vacation
The Stolen Melons
The Judge
Visiting the Prisoner
Tom Swears
The Court Room
The Detective
Tom Dreams
The Treasure
The Private Conference
A King; Poor Fellow!
Business
The Ha’nted House
Injun Joe
The Greatest and Best
Hidden Treasures Unearthed
The Boy’s Salvation
Room No. 2
The Next Day’s Conference
Treasures
Uncle Jake
Buck at Home
The Haunted Room
“Run for Your Life”
McDougal’s Cave
Inside the Cave
Huck on Duty
A Rousing Act
Tail Piece
The Welshman
Result of a Sneeze
Cornered
Alarming Discoveries
Tom and Becky stir up the Town
Tom’s Marks
Huck Questions the Widow
Vampires
Wonders of the Cave
Attacked by Natives
Despair
The Wedding Cake
A New Terror
Daylight
“Turn Out” to Receive Tom and Becky
The Escape from the Cave
Fate of the Ragged Man
The Treasures Found
Caught at Last
Drop after Drop
Having a Good Time
A Business Trip
“Got it at Last!”
Tail Piece
Widow Douglas
Tom Backs his Statement
Tail Piece
Huck Transformed
Comfortable Once More
High up in Society
Contentment
PREFACE
Most 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 architecture.
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.
THE AUTHOR.
HARTFORD, 1876.