When Pap confronts Huck and warns him to quit school and stop trying to better himself, Huck continues to attend school just to spite Pap. Because Pap has a history of violence and drunkenness, Huck is worried about Pap's intentions, especially toward his invested money. One day Huck discovers that his father, Pap Finn, has returned to town. Instead of obeying his guardians, however, Huck sneaks out of the house at night to join Tom Sawyer's gang and pretend that they are robbers and pirates. Readers learn that the practical Huck has become rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer ( The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and that the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, have taken Huck into their home in order to try and teach him religion and proper manners. Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened.Consisting of 43 chapters, the novel begins with Huck Finn introducing himself as someone readers might have heard of in the past. Jim tried it again, and then another time, and it acted just the same. It fell pretty solid, and only rolled about an inch. What I wanted to know was, what he was going to do, and was he going to stay? Jim got out his hair-ball and said something over it, and then he held it up and dropped it on the floor. So I went to him that night and told him pap was here again, for I found his tracks in the snow. He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed everything. Miss Watson’s nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it. ‘There you see it says ‘for a consideration.’ That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it. Then he wrote something on a paper and read it over, and says: You want to SELL all your property to me - not give it. ‘Please take it,’ says I, ‘and don’t ask me noth-ing - then I won’t have to tell no lies.’
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