Explanatory Notes
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Apparatus Notes
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Contents
Contents
CHAPTER I.    Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits
CHAPTER II.    The Boys Escape Jim.—Tom Sawyer’s Gang.—Deep-laid Plans
CHAPTER III.    A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—“One of Tom Sawyer’semendation Lies”
CHAPTER IV.    Huck and the Judge.—Superstition
CHAPTER V.    Huck’s Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform
CHAPTER VI.    He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decidesemendation to Leave.—Political Economy.—Thrashing Around
CHAPTER VII.    Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting
CHAPTER VIII.    Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—Finding Jim.—Jim’s Escape.—Signs.—“Balum”emendation
CHAPTER IX.    The Cave.—The Floating House
CHAPTER X.    The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise
CHAPTER XI.    Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen
CHAPTER XII.    Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.—Boarding the Wreck.—The Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat.
CHAPTER XIII.    Escaping from the Wreck.—The Watchman.—Sinking
CHAPTER XIV.    A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French
CHAPTER XV.    Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.—Trash
CHAPTER XVI.    “Give Us a Rest.”—The Corpse-Maker Crows.—“The Child of Calamity.”—They Both Weaken.—Little Davy Steps In.—After the Battle.—Ed’s Adventures.—Something Queer.—A Haunted Barrel.—It Brings a Storm.—The Barrel Pursues.—Killed by Lightning.—Allbright Atones.—Ed Gets Mad.—Snake or Boy?—“Snake Him Out.”—Some Lively Lying.—Off and Overboard.—textual note emendation Expectationsemendation.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by Cairo.—Swimming Ashore
CHAPTER XVII.    An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions
CHAPTER XVIII.    Col. Grangerford.—Aristocracy.—Feuds.—The Testament.—Recovering the Raft.—The Woodpileemendation.—Pork and Cabbage
CHAPTER XIX.    Tying Up Daytimesemendation.—An Astronomical Theory.—Running a Temperance Revival.—The Duke of Bridgewater.—The Troubles of Royalty
CHAPTER XX.    Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign.—Working the Camp-meeting.—A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.—The Duke as a Printer
CHAPTER XXI.    Sword Exercise.—Hamlet’s Soliloquy.—They Loafed Around Town.—A Lazy Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead
CHAPTER XXII.    Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.—The Thrilling Tragedy
CHAPTER XXIII.    “Sold!”emendation—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Homesickemendation
CHAPTER XXIV.    Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Information.—Family Grief
CHAPTER XXV.    “Is It Them?emendation—Singing the “Doxolojeremendation.”—Awful Square.—Funeral Orgies.—A Bad Investment
CHAPTER XXVI.    A Pious King.—The King’s Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.—Hiding in the Room.—Huck Takes the Money
CHAPTER XXVII.    The Funeral.—Satisfying Curiosity.—Suspicious of Huck.—Quick Sales and Small Profits
CHAPTER XXVIII.    The Trip to England.—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line
CHAPTER XXIX.    Contested Relationship.—The King Explains the Loss.—A Question of Handwriting.—Digging up the Corpse.—Huck Escapes
CHAPTER XXX.    The King Went for Him.—A Royal Row.—Powerful Mellow
CHAPTER XXXI.    Ominous Plans.—News ofemendation Jimtextual note.—Old Recollections.—A Sheep Story.—Valuable Information
CHAPTER XXXII.    Still and Sunday-like.—Mistaken Identity.—Up a Stump.—In a Dilemma
CHAPTER XXXIII.    A Nigger Stealer.—Southern Hospitality.—A Pretty Long Blessing.—Tar and Feathers
CHAPTER XXXIV.    The Hut by the Ash-hopperemendation.—Outrageous.—Climbing the Lightning Rod.—Troubled with Witches
CHAPTER XXXV.    Escaping Properly.—Dark Schemes.—Discrimination in Stealing.—A Deep Hole
CHAPTER XXXVI.    The Lightning Rod.—His Level Best.—A Bequest to Posterity.—A High Figure
CHAPTER XXXVII.    The Lostemendation Shirttextual note.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.—The Witch Pie
CHAPTER XXXVIII.    The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A Tearful Subject
CHAPTER XXXIX.    Rats.—Lively Bed-fellows.—The Straw Dummy
CHAPTER XL.    Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor
CHAPTER XLI.    The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble
CHAPTER XLII.    Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor’s Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly Arrives.—“Hand Out Them Letters”emendation
CHAPTER THE LAST.    Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Trulyemendation Huck Finn
Editorial Emendations Contents
  Sawyer’s (C)  ●  Sawyers’s (A) 
  Decides (Ab Prb)  ●  Decided (Pra Aa Can) 
  “Balum” (C)  ●  Balum  (A) 
  “Give . . . Overboard.— (C)  ●  “give . . . overboard.— (LoM)  not in  (A) 
  Expectations (C)  ●  Expectation (A) 
  Woodpile (C)  ●  Wood-pile (A) 
  Daytimes (C)  ●  Day-times (A) 
  “Sold!” (C)  ●  Sold.  (A) 
  Homesick (C)  ●  Home-sick (A) 
  “Is It Them?” (C)  ●  Is It Them? (A) 
  Doxolojer (C)  ●  Doxologer (A) 
  of (C)  ●  from (A) 
  Ash-hopper (C)  ●  Ash Hopper (A) 
  Lost (C)  ●  Last (A) 
  “Hand . . . Letters” (C)  ●  Hand . . . Letters  (A) 
  Truly (C)  ●  Truly, (A) 
Textual Notes Contents
 “Give . . . Overboard.—] The table of contents in the first edition of Huckleberry Finn does not analyze the “raft episode” because that “episode” was dropped from the book shortly before publication. It is part of the present text, so this portion of the table of contents is adopted from the running heads, not the table of contents, for chapter 3 of the first edition of Life on the Mississippi, where the “raft episode” first appeared. Unlike Huckleberry Finn where the chapter descriptions in the table of contents are the same as the running heads on recto pages (called “page titles” by Webster), Life on the Mississippi has contents entries different from its running heads. The running heads are here preferred over the contents descriptions because they derive from the contents of each page and because they are written in the third person, thus more closely resembling the other contents entries in Huckleberry Finn.
 News of Jim] The first edition reads “News from Jim” in the table of contents and in the “page title,” a description supplied by the publisher and meant to analyze the passage in chapter 31 where Huck [begin page 812] learns from a passing boy that the king has sold Jim for forty dollars. Clearly, Huck hears news of Jim, not from Jim. The correction is made for the first time in this edition.
 The Lost Shirt] The first edition reads “The Last Shirt” in the table of contents and in the “page title,” a description supplied by the publisher and meant to analyze the passage in chapter 37 where Aunt Sally complains to Uncle Silas about his missing shirt and Silas responds “I don’t believe I’ve ever lost one of them off of me” (see 314.22–23). The first edition’s mistaken “Last” might well have resulted from a mistranscription of the publisher’s handwritten “Lost”. The correction is made for the first time in this edition.