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Pap sues Judge Thatcher for Huck's money and threatens Huck not to attend school, which Huck does in order to spite Pap. Pap kidnaps Huck, and the two live in a shed down by the river. Huck begins sawing his way out of the cabin. Suffering from delirium tremens, Pap chases Huck with a knife before passing out. Huck points a gun at Pap as he sleeps.

Aunt Polly and the Phelpses set Jim free and treat him like a king. Tom repays him with $40 dollars. Tom heals. Huck finds out the dead man on the boat was his father.

Buck Grangerford tries to shoot a Shepherdson. He tells Huck about their feuding families but can't remember why the two are fighting. One of the Grangerford slaves leads Huck into the woods where Jim is waiting. Huck learns that Sophia Grangerford has run off with Haney Shepherdson. Huck then finds Buck and another Grangerford in the woods having a gun fight with two Shepherdsons. Buck and his friend are killed. Huck and Jim leave.

When Mark Twain's daughter Susie wrote a letter to Santa Claus, her father wrote back, signing Santa's name. Charming and heartwarming, this version of the short letter was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.

Tom is brought in, half conscious, with the doctor and Jim, who is chained and put back in the shed. The doctor extols Jim's behavior, who sacrificed his freedom to save Tom. Tom wakes up, dismayed that Jim has been chained, relating to those in attendance that the widow Douglas died two months prior and set Jim free in her will. Tom's Aunt Polly arrives to sort out the mess.

Transported 1300 years into the past, Connecticut engineer Hank Morgan finds himself in Camelot, the legendary home of King Arthur and his fabled Knights of the Round Table. Becoming a friend and adviser to the king, Hank encounters Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, and all the other characters from Arthurian legend. As he attempts to take on the task of analyzing the problems of their time, he tries to share his knowledge from the future in order to modernize, Americanize, and improve the lives of the people he meets.

Huck finds Mary Jane crying over the separation of the slave family. Huck tells her the truth about the duke and instructs her to go to a friend's house. Later that day, two men, the actual Wilks brothers, interrupt the auctioning of the family's estate.

With this biting speech, Mark Twain dissects the damaging role newspapers can play in society. He argues that America’s public opinion is formed “by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.” Twain accompanies these criticisms with personal anecdotes and tales of libel both humorous and disheartening. He concludes by saying that there are virtues to newspapers, but such remarks would not have made for such an interesting speech.

Huck discovers that Pap is suspected for Huck's murder, and a $200 reward has been offered to find him. There's a $300 bounty for Jim. The lady's husband says she saw smoke on Jackson's Island, and her husband is going there tonight to get Jim. The lady discovers Huck is a boy and promises she won't turn him in. Huck returns to the island to warn Jim.

Mark Twain delivered this speech at the dedication of new buildings at the College of the City of New York. The mayor who preceded him mentioned that good citizenship should take precedence even over education. Twain uses this introduction to transition into a funny discussion of the motto “In God we trust” being stamped into US coins and how this relates to principles of citizenship.

Mark Twain was commissioned to deliver this speech before the virgin voyage of the St. Paul steamship. On the day of its scheduled departure from Philadelphia to England, however, it could not be moved. Had Twain delivered it, this is among the charming witticisms he would have shared: “I have gone over the same road so many times now that I know all the whales that belong along the route, and latterly it is an embarrassment to me to meet them, for they do not look glad to see me, but annoyed, and they seem to say: ‘Here is this old derelict again.’”

Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers.

The duke and dauphin arrive in the next town, pretending to be the brothers of a man who has recently deceased who has left a large sum of money. Huck is ashamed.

哈克贝利是一个聪明、善良、勇敢的白人少年。他为了追求自由的生活，逃亡到密西西比河上。在逃亡途中，他遇到了黑奴吉姆……哈克貝利是一個聰明、善良、勇敢的白人少年。他為了追求自由的生活，逃亡到密西西比河上。在逃亡途中，他遇到了黑奴吉姆……

There's no one quite like Mark Twain for finding humor in the most improbable situations - and these 10 stories prove it. He sets the tone in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," and completely hooks the reader in long before reaching the snowbound railway train in "Cannibalism in the Cars."

The letter alerts local farmers, who gather with shotguns. The farmers attack the shed, containing Jim, Tom, and Huck. The three escape. Tom receives a bullet wound in the leg.

Huck hides the money in Peter Wilks' coffin. The coffin is sealed at the funeral, and Huck doesn't know whether or not the duke got the money back or if it's still there. He vows to write Mary when he leaves town to let her know. The duke and the dauphin sell the family's estate and slaves, breaking up a family. Huck is relieved in knowing the family will be reunited as soon as the fraud is discovered.

Huck is saved by the dogs' owner. Huck introduces himself as George Jackson and creates an elaborate story. He learns of a feud between this family and the Sheperdsons. The family, the Grangerfords, let Huck stay with them.

As they head for the Ohio River, Huck and Jim get separated by a thick fog. Huck finally rejoins Jim, who is sleeping. He tells Jim that he dreamed the entire incident. When Jim notices the debris on the raft, he realizes the truth and is upset. Huck apologizes.

Huck arrives at the Phelps', where he is warmly greeted. The Phelps assume Huck is their nephew, Tom, Tom Sawyer, whose arrival is expected.