Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn’t wake. Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.

‘Now,’ says Ben Rogers, ‘what’s the line of business of this Gang?’ ‘Nothing only robbery and murder,’ Tom said.

Pap he hadn’t been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn’t want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.

Shucks, it ain’t no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. You don’t seem to know anything, somehow—perfect saphead.

Previous section Chapter 1 Next section Chapters 4–6

Popular pages: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Take a Study Break