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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Chapter 1Jam, the Sewn Collar and the New Boy

  1. A small, sleepy river village seen from the green hill above it on a bright summer morning.
  2. Aunt Polly whirls round in the doorway and hikes up her skirts at an imaginary danger
  3. Tom holds his jacket open across the supper table and shows the shirt collar still stitched shut.
  4. At supper, Sid calmly points out that Tom's collar is sewn with black thread instead of white.
  5. Tom first sees the new boy, a stranger in city clothes and shoes on an ordinary Friday.
  6. The new boy takes Tom's dare and steps over the line in the dust.
  7. Tom Sawyer sits astride the new boy in the dusty village street as the dust thins
  8. Tom struts off down the dusty street at dusk, proud of his win.
  9. Tom comes home late and climbs in at the window, and finds his aunt waiting for him in the dark.

Chapter 2The Fence Whitewashed by Other Hands

  1. Saturday morning breaks over the small village under blooming locust trees.
  2. Jim bends over Tom's bandaged toe as Aunt Polly slips out of the gate, slipper raised
  3. In this extreme close-up, Tom's eyes fly open.
  4. Tom whitewashes the fence as Ben Rogers bounds down the street with an apple, whooping
  5. Ben Rogers reaches for the brush and asks to whitewash a little.
  6. Traded treasures lie heaped at Tom's barrel: a kite, a dead rat, marbles, a tin soldier
  7. By mid-afternoon the whole fence shines under three coats of whitewash.
  8. Tom sits in the shade on his barrel after a day of trading.

Chapter 3The Fence Repaid and the New Girl's Pansy

  1. On a drowsy summer afternoon, Aunt Polly nods over her knitting with the cat in her lap
  2. Aunt Polly stops dead before the whole thirty-yard fence, whitewashed coat over coat
  3. Aunt Polly lifts her finger to Heaven as she ends her lecture on virtuous effort.
  4. Tom stops mid-stride in the street at the sight of a new girl in the Thatcher garden
  5. Tom leans on the Thatcher fence and thinks he has lost the new girl.
  6. At the supper table, Aunt Polly raises her hand to strike Tom a second time.
  7. At dusk, Tom sits alone at the edge of a weathered log raft before the vast river
  8. Tom lies under the window of the Adored Unknown, hands clasped over her wilted pansy
  9. A maid throws up the sash and empties a basin of water onto Tom lying under the window
  10. Soaked by the maid's basin of water, Tom springs up from the pansy bed under the Thatcher window.
  11. Tom stands by the tallow dip in his nightshirt, holding up his soaked clothes.

Chapter 4Tom buys a Bible and fails the Judge's question

  1. The sun rises over the river village as churchgoers walk toward the little white church
  2. Tom is overjoyed with his new "sure-enough" Barlow knife.
  3. Scrubbed and buttoned into Sunday clothes, Tom stands stiff as a post in the kitchen
  4. The Thatcher visitors walk up the church aisle as every child turns to stare
  5. The Sunday-school shows off for the visitors as teachers fuss and paper wads fly
  6. Tom holds up a thick wad of tickets and asks for a Bible as the superintendent freezes
  7. Judge Thatcher smiles and holds out a hand as he asks Tom to name the first two disciples
  8. Tom proudly holds his new Bible and shouts the wrong answer to the Judge's question.

Chapter 5The Pinchbug and the Poodle in Church

  1. The cracked bell rings on a bright Sunday morning and the small plain church fills pew by pew.
  2. The Rev. Mr. Sprague reads out the hymn with solemn relish from the white box pulpit
  3. The prayer is almost over.
  4. During the dull sermon, Tom's face lights up.
  5. The pinchbug that nipped Tom's finger lies on its back on the aisle boards
  6. A bored poodle stops over the upturned pinchbug in the aisle, his tail starting to wag
  7. The sleepy poodle's head sinks lower and lower toward the upturned pinchbug in the church aisle.
  8. A startled man flings the frantic poodle out of the open window as neighbours shrink back

Chapter 6The Tooth, the Tick and Becky Thatcher

  1. A quiet, sleeping village at dawn, seen from Cardiff Hill.
  2. Tom plays the dying martyr, forgiving everybody, as a frightened Sid grabs his clothes
  3. Aunt Polly suddenly thrusts a glowing chunk of fire at Tom's face.
  4. On the morning road to school, Tom comes upon Huckleberry Finn, the village outcast.
  5. By the whitewashed fence, Tom eagerly asks to join Huck's midnight graveyard trip
  6. Tom arrives late, hangs his hat on the peg and drops onto the back bench
  7. Tom shouts to the schoolmaster that he stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn
  8. Becky shyly whispers her name to Tom at the girls' bench.
  9. Tom is still beaming at Becky when the schoolmaster's big fingers close on his ear from behind.

Chapter 7The tick, the engagement and the quarrel

  1. At the noon recess, Tom and Becky have the empty schoolroom to themselves.
  2. In the empty noon schoolroom, Tom turns his face away and squeezes his eyes shut.
  3. In the empty schoolroom at noon, Becky drops her hands and lifts her glowing face to Tom
  4. Becky's happiness breaks off in the middle of the word "Amy."
  5. Tom shows the sobbing Becky his most precious treasure, a brass andiron knob
  6. Becky knocks Tom's brass andiron knob from his hand, and it rolls across the floor
  7. Becky stands alone in the noon play-yard, calling after Tom toward the fence
  8. Becky sits very straight at the girls' bench, hiding her tear-reddened face after recess

Chapter 8Tom plans to be a pirate; Robin Hood in the wood

  1. A high view of wooded Cardiff Hill and the white Douglas mansion above a hazy valley
  2. Tom has run away from school and from Becky into the middle of a pathless wood.
  3. Deep in the silent noonday wood, Tom's sulk breaks.
  4. A shingle-lined hiding place under a rotten log holds just one glass marble
  5. At the faint tin trumpet, Tom runs barelegged through the forest toward the great elm
  6. On Cardiff Hill, Tom as Robin Hood stops Joe Harper, playing Guy of Guisborne

Chapter 9Murder in the Graveyard

  1. St. Petersburg sleeps under a moon hidden by clouds.
  2. Tom has dropped from the woodshed roof, and Huck waits with a dead cat held by its tail
  3. Tom and Huck wade through rank grass into the neglected hilltop graveyard at night.
  4. Tom and Huck crouch by the three elms as three dark figures cross the night graveyard
  5. Three men stop by the fresh grave, a few feet from Tom and Huck lying flat in the grass
  6. Injun Joe finally has the doctor who shamed him five years ago.
  7. By the open grave, Doctor Robinson brings Williams's heavy headboard down on Muff Potter
  8. The moon comes out again over the graveyard.
  9. Under moonlight, Injun Joe folds Muff Potter's limp fingers around the bloody knife
  10. Muff Potter, blood on his shirt, kneels and raises clasped hands to Injun Joe

Chapter 10The Blood Oath in the Tannery

  1. A wide moonlit countryside between the graveyard hill and the sleeping village.
  2. In the moonlit tannery, Huck pushes Tom's hand aside: this secret needs writing and blood
  3. Seen from above in the moonlight, the pine shingle carries Tom's crooked red-keel oath.
  4. The blood oath is sealed, and Tom and Huck whisper with their heads together in the moonlight.
  5. Tom Sawyer gives in and presses his eye to a moonlit crack in the tannery wall.
  6. A snapped stick makes the tannery snorer stir and turn his face into the moonlight
  7. Outside the old tannery, Tom and Huck spin round and see the stray dog howling at the moon.
  8. In grey pre-dawn light, Tom slips off his jacket at the washstand, sure nobody knows
  9. Aunt Polly doesn't punish Tom after breakfast.
  10. Tom's limp hand rests beside a half-unrolled paper on the school desk.

Chapter 11Potter Accused, Tom's Conscience Gnaws

  1. At noon the small river village lies quiet between the green hill and the brown Mississippi.
  2. In the noon crowd at the graveyard, someone pinches Tom's arm.
  3. Tom's eye falls on Injun Joe in the middle of the talking, pitying crowd at the graveyard.
  4. At noon in the graveyard, the Sheriff leads Muff Potter toward the murdered doctor
  5. The Sheriff pushes the gory spring-knife a hand's breadth from Muff Potter's chest.
  6. Tom and Huck stand frozen in the noon crowd and watch the liar stand unharmed under a clear sky.
  7. Tom stares at Injun Joe's face and cannot look away.
  8. Tom sits frozen at the breakfast table, gripping its edge as the room swims around him
  9. Tom mutters in his sleep while Sid loosens his bandage and listens at his lips
  10. A boy's hand passes tobacco and matches through the jail grating to a big, rough hand
  11. Injun Joe walks slowly and alone down the middle of the dusty village street.

Chapter 12Pain-killer, the Cat, and Becky's Snub

  1. The little river town sleeps under the summer moon; one upstairs window glows
  2. Night after night, Tom hangs around Judge Thatcher's silent house, feeling very miserable.
  3. At dawn in the woodshed, Aunt Polly raises a bucket of cold water over lovesick Tom
  4. Peter hangs in the air, fur on end, letting out a war-whoop after his Pain-killer
  5. Aunt Polly freezes in the doorway as the frenzied cat sails out the window
  6. Aunt Polly reaches for a pewter teaspoon handle sticking out from under the bed
  7. Tom's answer about the cat that "hadn't any aunt" hits home.
  8. Tom looks up at Aunt Polly, grave and repentant, with a spark of mischief in his eyes
  9. Tom has come to school early again.
  10. Tom lies sprawled in the schoolyard dust at Becky's feet after all his showing off.
  11. Snubbed by Becky, Tom gets up from the schoolyard dust with burning cheeks

Chapter 13The pirates run away to Jackson's Island

  1. A long country lane winds from the village across summer meadows toward the river
  2. Tom walks alone down empty Meadow Lane, head hung, fists in his pockets
  3. Far down Meadow Lane, Tom wipes his tears on his sleeve and starts his sad farewell.
  4. At midnight Tom crouches with his stolen ham on a bluff above the starlit Mississippi
  5. Two boys on the starlit shore whisper the dreadful word Blood! up into the night
  6. Under the stars, three runaway pirates push their log raft onto the dark Mississippi
  7. The Black Avenger stands with folded arms, looking his last at the sleeping town
  8. On their first night on Jackson's Island, three runaway pirates feast by a fire
  9. By the campfire, Joe's talk of pirates in gold and silver makes Huck look at his rags
  10. Tom lies awake by the dying campfire on Jackson's Island, his eyes wide open in the dark.

Chapter 14The pirates learn they are thought drowned

  1. Tom wakes first in the cool grey dawn on the pirates' island.
  2. Three tiny pirates splash and tumble in the clear shallows of a white sandbar
  3. A second muffled boom breaks the hush, and the three pirates jump up from the log
  4. Hidden in the island bushes, the three pirates part the leaves to watch the river
  5. From the island bushes, three boys watch a crowded ferry ringed by skiffs on the river
  6. In an extreme close-up, Tom's eyes open wide as he works out who has "drownded".
  7. Tom, Huck and Joe grin as they realise the town is searching the river for their bodies
  8. By the night campfire, Tom mocks Joe's timid hint about going home, and Huck smirks along with him.
  9. Tom kneels by the dying fire, writing on sycamore bark with his red keel
  10. Joe's straw hat lies upside down on the dark grass by the campfire.

Chapter 15Tom's secret night visit home

  1. Under a starry sky, Tom wades waist-deep off Jackson's Island toward the Illinois shore
  2. Tom is still wet from the river.
  3. Tom's soaked head appears in the crack of the back door as the candle flame bends
  4. Tom lies hidden under the bed in tears, just short of his grieving aunt's slipper
  5. Tom lies hidden under the bed and hears that his funeral will be preached on Sunday.
  6. Aunt Polly kneels alone by candlelight and prays for the boy she thinks has drowned.
  7. Tom lays the white sycamore scroll by his sleeping aunt's candle, shading the flame
  8. Tom, soaked from the river and believed drowned, kisses his sleeping Aunt Polly
  9. Tom dives into the sunlit Mississippi from the Illinois bank, heading for the island
  10. Tom, still dripping from the river, strides into the island camp: Which he is!

Chapter 16Homesickness, a pipe, and the storm on the island

  1. The fun on the island is over.
  2. Joe Harper wades silently off through the glittering shallows toward the Illinois shore.
  3. Tom stands alone on the wide white sandbar, held still by his pride.
  4. Alone on the sandbar, Tom dashes after Huck and Joe, shouting for them to wait
  5. Joe's limp hand lies in the grass as his first corncob pipe slips from his fingers
  6. At the height of the storm, lightning lights up the whole foaming river and the distant bluffs.
  7. At the height of the storm, three soaked boys hold hands against the great oak on the riverbank.
  8. Three drenched boys find the great sycamore above their beds split by lightning
  9. After supper by the campfire, the three pirates sit against the great log with their corncob pipes.

Chapter 17The boys attend their own funeral

  1. From Cardiff Hill, St. Petersburg lies still on a quiet Saturday beside a calm river
  2. Becky Thatcher stands alone in the empty schoolyard where she quarrelled with Tom
  3. Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary and the Harpers walk up the aisle in black as the church stands
  4. The old minister weeps behind the pulpit at the funeral sermon as the church sobs
  5. The three "dead" boys crouch in the dim, unused gallery among broken benches.
  6. The weeping old minister lifts his eyes above his handkerchief and freezes
  7. The congregation rises in stunned silence as the three "dead" boys march up the aisle
  8. The funeral turns into a joyful reunion as two families smother their "drowned" boys with kisses.
  9. The funeral turns into a celebration: the whole packed church stands and sings Old Hundred.
  10. As Old Hundred shakes the rafters, Tom glances sideways at the envious boys

Chapter 18The Glory of a Pirate and a Spilled Inkpot

  1. Saturday dusk on the Mississippi: Jackson's Island lies dark, and the lit village waits
  2. Aunt Polly half-rises from her chair with her hands raised in awe at Tom's "prophetic dream."
  3. Aunt Polly crushes Tom in a tearful embrace and forgives him everything
  4. Tom swaggers like a pirate through the village, a flock of small boys at his heels
  5. In the sunlit schoolyard, the girls clap around Becky over her picnic invitations.
  6. Tom has walked off with Amy.
  7. Tom stops short as Becky and Alfred Temple bend close over a picture-book
  8. Behind the schoolhouse at noon, Becky wheels on Alfred in a burst of angry misery.
  9. In the empty schoolroom at noon, a boy's neat hand tips an inkpot over Tom's open spelling-book.
  10. In the empty noon schoolroom, Alfred Temple pours the last of the ink over Tom's spelling-book.
  11. Becky stands outside the schoolhouse window.

Chapter 19The blessed lie and Tom's noble flogging

  1. At noon Tom trudges home down the dusty street toward Aunt Polly's whitewashed fence
  2. Across the worn pine table, Tom tells his aunt why he kissed her, and his face is open and sincere.
  3. Aunt Polly cries as she reads Tom's piece of sycamore bark at the open closet
  4. Becky is alone at the master's desk with his secret Anatomy book.
  5. Becky snaps the master's Anatomy shut, and the coloured plate rips down the middle
  6. The master opens his book as Becky sits frozen, fingers pressed to her lips
  7. The drowsy afternoon hum has died into a dead hush.
  8. Becky lifts a chalk-white face to the master and raises her trembling hands
  9. In the silent schoolroom Tom leaps to his feet and takes the blame for the torn book to save Becky.
  10. Tom walks up to take the flogging meant for Becky, and she watches him from the girls' bench.
  11. In bed, Tom hears Becky's grateful words again and falls asleep with a happy smile

Chapter 20Examination Evening and the Gilded Head

  1. On a hot morning before vacation, small children trudge up a lane to the schoolhouse
  2. On the boys' bench, the smaller boys swear in the signpainter's boy, who grins
  3. At eight in the evening the schoolhouse is lit and hung with garlands.
  4. Tom Sawyer freezes mid-speech on the edge of the performers' platform
  5. A dark-haired young lady stands still at the edge of the platform on Examination Evening.
  6. The mayor hands the first prize to the dark-haired young lady for her Vision
  7. A gagged cat sinks from the ceiling scuttle, clawing the air above Mr. Dobbins's wig
  8. A gagged grey tabby cat hangs on a string just above the schoolmaster's neat brown wig.
  9. The cat whisks the wig away, and the schoolmaster's gilded bald head blazes like a lamp
  10. The wig is gone, and the master's gilded bald head blazes in the lamplight

Chapter 21Tom's dreary vacation, measles and the revival

  1. St. Petersburg drowses in the midsummer noon heat beside the wide brown Mississippi
  2. The Judge has recovered, so there will be no grand funeral.
  3. At old Judge Frazer's funeral, the Cadets of Temperance march in their red sashes behind the hearse.
  4. On a rainy Fourth of July, a soaked Tom Sawyer stares across the street at the Senator
  5. Tom lies flat and limp in his sickbed, pale and feverish, with the measles rash on his face.
  6. Tom, still weak from the measles, runs to Huck Finn as his last hope for a fellow sinner.
  7. A storm breaks over the village at night.
  8. Tom lies with the quilt pulled to his nose, eyes wide open, lightning glinting in them
  9. Pale and thin after the measles, Tom stops at the mouth of a back alley.

Chapter 22Tom testifies, Injun Joe escapes

  1. The sleepy river village lies still in the summer noon heat.
  2. At twilight, Muff Potter reaches through the jail bars and touches Tom's cheek in thanks.
  3. On the morning of the trial the whole village packs into the courthouse.
  4. Muff Potter's lawyer, silent until now, rises at the defence table and calls a surprise witness.
  5. The packed courtroom turns in amazement to a scared Tom Sawyer on the witness stand
  6. When Tom says "behind the elms," Injun Joe's iron calm cracks for a moment.
  7. At the height of his testimony, Tom flings out his arm and points at Injun Joe across the courtroom.
  8. At the height of the trial, Injun Joe crashes through the tall courtroom window in a spray of glass.
  9. At night, the boy who was a hero by day lies in bed with the quilt pulled up to his eyes.

Chapter 23Tom and Huck's first treasure hunt

  1. St. Petersburg in midsummer, seen from Cardiff Hill, with the Mississippi shining beyond
  2. In a weedy spot at the village edge, Tom leans in to share his treasure plan with Huck
  3. At the mention of a brass pot of a hundred dollars, Huck's grey eyes light up
  4. Kneeling in the weeds, Tom points to a lone dead tree on the far hill, and Huck nods
  5. Under the elm, Huck jerks bolt upright, pipe held out in the air, and stares at Tom.
  6. Waist-deep in the hole, Tom slaps his forehead and stares at the dead tree's bare limb
  7. Tom and Huck sit in the dead tree's shadow on the moonlit hill, waiting for midnight
  8. At midnight, Tom crouches over the treasure hole, imagining a dead man's skull rising
  9. Under the midnight moon, Tom's eyes light up with a new idea: the haunted house
  10. From the moonlit slope, Tom and Huck stare down at the haunted house in the valley

Chapter 24The Haunted House and Injun Joe's Gold

  1. At still noon, the lone dead tree on the hilltop reaches its limb over a green valley
  2. At noon, under a baking sun, Tom and Huck stop at the weed-smothered doorsteps of the haunted house.
  3. Tom and Huck peer through knotholes as two strangers enter the haunted house below
  4. Two boys lie pressed to a gap in the planks of the haunted house.
  5. In the loft of the haunted house, Tom rises to slip away alone.
  6. Deep in the haunted house, Injun Joe lifts a handful of gold coins from the rotten box
  7. Kneeling over the unearthed gold, Injun Joe tells his comrade the job is revenge
  8. Injun Joe's hand turns over the boys' rusty pick and his thumb presses into the damp red clay on it.
  9. Disguised as the Spaniard, Injun Joe climbs the rotten stairs, hand on his bowie knife
  10. The rotten stairs collapse under Injun Joe, and he struggles up cursing from the timbers
  11. In the dusk woods, Tom realises Injun Joe's revenge may be meant for him and Huck
  12. At dusk, Huck ambles down Cardiff Hill toward the lit windows of the village, relieved

Chapter 25Number Two turns out to be a tavern room

  1. Before sunrise, St. Petersburg sleeps above the wide, still Mississippi.
  2. At dawn Tom throws off the quilt, sits on the bed's edge and reaches for his clothes
  3. On a lazy morning, Huck sits slumped on an old flatboat with his feet in the Mississippi
  4. On a flatboat gunwale, Tom grabs Huck's sleeve, realising yesterday's treasure was real
  5. Squatting on the flatboat deck, Tom suddenly cracks the riddle: "Number Two" is a room in a tavern.
  6. Room No. 2 of the less ostentatious tavern is shuttered tight in broad morning daylight.
  7. On the flatboat, Huck clenches his fist and vows to follow Injun Joe alone in the dark
  8. On the sunny flatboat deck, Tom thrusts out his hand to seal the pact and Huck meets it

Chapter 26The unlocked door and the sleeping Injun Joe

  1. St. Petersburg sleeps on a clear summer night beside the wide Mississippi.
  2. An hour before midnight, the tavern's lamps go out and its alley sinks into darkness
  3. A lantern flash breaks the darkness of the alley as Tom tears out shouting "Run!
  4. The locked door gives way, and the unwrapped lantern floods the forbidden Room No. 2 with light.
  5. Tom's bare foot freezes just above Injun Joe's sleeping hand in the harsh lantern light
  6. Injun Joe lies dead drunk on the floor of Room No. 2, a bottle and tin cup beside him
  7. In the old slaughter-house shed, Huck grips Tom's hand and agrees to watch every night
  8. Under the slaughter-house shed, Huck vows to haunt the tavern every night for a year

Chapter 27Picnic, cave, and Huck's night pursuit

  1. On a bright summer morning the sleepy river village lies quiet along its bank.
  2. Becky is back in town.
  3. Tom walks on with the picnic crowd but glances back toward the tavern end of town
  4. In the cave's cold vestibule, the hushed children gaze out at the sunlit green valley
  5. The picnic party files down the main avenue of McDougal's cave by candlelight
  6. On a cloudy night, Huck squats by the old brick store and watches a silent ferry pass
  7. In a pitch-dark alley, Huck presses against the bricks as two men slip past with a bundle
  8. Huck Finn freezes on the black sumac path.
  9. By the widow's stile in the dark sumac lane, Injun Joe says his revenge is aimed at her
  10. Deep in the dark sumac lane, Huck freezes mid-step as a twig cracks under his foot.
  11. On Cardiff Hill, Huck recoils from the boulder as gunfire flashes in the sumac thicket

Chapter 28Huck's secret and the children lost in the cave

  1. Cardiff Hill lies silent in the first grey light of Sunday morning.
  2. Before dawn, the old Welshman leans from his upper window to welcome the boy at his door
  3. In the Welshman's kitchen, Huck whispers his deadliest secret into the old man's ear
  4. In an extreme close-up, Huck stares wide-eyed across the breakfast table without breathing.
  5. The congregation stops on its way out of the church.
  6. Mrs. Thatcher faints into Mrs. Harper's arms in her pew as Aunt Polly weeps
  7. The whole town of St. Petersburg rushes toward the cave.
  8. Deep in McDougal's cave, a searcher's candle lights up BECKY & TOM smoked on the rock
  9. At Huck's sickbed, Widow Douglas suddenly bursts into tears when she hears Tom's name.

Chapter 29Lost in the cave

  1. From a high crack in McDougal's cave, tiny candle flames move along the avenue
  2. Tom squeezes behind the stone Niagara and finds a steep secret stairway going down into the dark.
  3. Tom and Becky rest on a low boulder at the edge of an endless underground lake.
  4. Deep in the cave, Tom admits they're lost and Becky cries out in despair by a blank wall
  5. Deep in the cave, Tom silently blows out Becky's candle to save light.
  6. A short tallow stub stuck in clay on the wet cave wall is Tom and Becky's last light
  7. The last instant before total darkness in the cave.
  8. At the dead end of the passage, the candle Tom took for rescue shows Injun Joe's face.
  9. In the cave's total darkness, Tom kisses Becky's forehead as she lies still on the ledge
  10. Tom crawls into a low side passage with the kite-line as Becky watches from the ledge

Chapter 30Rescue, and Injun Joe sealed in the cave

  1. At Tuesday dusk, St. Petersburg lies hushed and grieving as searchers walk slowly home
  2. At midnight, St. Petersburg fills the main street and carries the lost children home
  3. In the black passage, Tom guides the exhausted Becky toward a tiny speck of daylight
  4. In McDougal's cave, a messenger follows the twine to the exhausted Judge Thatcher
  5. Judge Thatcher holds up the three iron keys that lock the cave door on Injun Joe
  6. Tom goes chalk-white as he realizes Injun Joe is locked inside the sealed cave
  7. Tom has just had a glass of water thrown in his face.

Chapter 31Injun Joe's death and the treasure found

  1. Chapter 31 opens on a quiet afternoon above the Missouri shore.
  2. The cave door opens on Injun Joe, lying dead with his face pressed to the crack
  3. In the cave vestibule, barefoot Tom stands by the broken stalagmite and hollowed stone
  4. Behind a shed, Tom crouches by Huck and whispers that the treasure is in the cave
  5. Tom whispers that the treasure is in the cave, and hope flares in Huck's fever-pale face.
  6. Deep in McDougal's cave, a cross smeared in candle-smoke shows on the great rock
  7. In McDougal's cave, Tom's Barlow knife digs four inches under the cross and hits wood
  8. Tom's candle opens a hidden cavern at the end of the winding rift.
  9. Deep in McDougal's cave, Huck plunges his hand into the gold as Tom holds up the candle
  10. At the Widow Douglas's, a clay-smeared Tom cuffs tattling Sid and kicks him to the door
  11. At the Widow Douglas's supper, Tom half-rises and stuns the room: Huck don't need it
  12. Tom pours a stream of gold onto the Widow Douglas's supper-table: half Huck's, half his

Chapter 32Huck flees riches, is lured back by the gang

  1. St. Petersburg sits low along the calm Mississippi, with Cardiff Hill green above it
  2. The whole village of St. Petersburg crowds the main street to admire Tom and Huck
  3. Becky gazes up proudly as Judge Thatcher paces the parlour, praising Tom's noble lie
  4. On the third morning Tom finds the missing Huck behind the abandoned slaughter-house.
  5. Huck leans out of his hogshead and pushes his palm toward Tom, refusing his fortune
  6. Huck sits on the rim of his hogshead behind the slaughter-house.
  7. Huck lifts his head and says he will go back to the widow for a place in Tom's gang
  8. Behind the slaughter-house, Huck leaps into the air and flings his ruined hat skyward