Chapter 27
Picnic, cave, and Huck's night pursuit
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1 On a bright summer morning the sleepy river village lies quiet along its bank.
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2 Becky is back in town.
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3 Tom walks on with the picnic crowd but glances back toward the tavern end of town
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4 In the cave's cold vestibule, the hushed children gaze out at the sunlit green valley
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5 The picnic party files down the main avenue of McDougal's cave by candlelight
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6 On a cloudy night, Huck squats by the old brick store and watches a silent ferry pass
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7 In a pitch-dark alley, Huck presses against the bricks as two men slip past with a bundle
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8 Huck Finn freezes on the black sumac path.
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9 By the widow's stile in the dark sumac lane, Injun Joe says his revenge is aimed at her
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10 Deep in the dark sumac lane, Huck freezes mid-step as a twig cracks under his foot.
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11 On Cardiff Hill, Huck recoils from the boulder as gunfire flashes in the sumac thicket
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