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50 Classic Stories Which Were Turned Into Famous Animated Movies 



01 - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn / Disney Film: The Adventures Of Huck Finn (1993)
02 - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer / Disney Film: Tom And Huck (1995)
03 - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp / Disney Film: Aladdin (1992) 04 - Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland / Disney Film: Alice In Wonderland (1951) and Alice In Wonderland (2010)
05 -  Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) / Disney Film: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
06 - Around The World in Eighty Days / Disney Film: Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
07 - A Journey into the Center of the Earth / Disney Film: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
08 - Beauty and the Beast / Disney Film: Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Beauty and the Beast (2017)
09 - The Ant and the Grasshopper / Disney Film: The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) and A Bug’s Life (1998)
10 - Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper / Disney Film: Cinderella (1950)
11 - Henny Penny / Disney Film: Chicken Little (2005)
12 - A Christmas Carol / Disney Film: A Christmas Carol (2009)
13 - The Snow Queen / Disney Film: Frozen (2013)
14 - A Princess Of Mars / Disney Film: John Carter (2012)
15 - Kidnapped / Disney Film: Kidnapped (1960)
16 - The Little Mermaid / Disney Film: The Little Mermaid (1989)
17 - Robinson Crusoe / Disney Film: Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)
18 - Ballad of Mulan / Disney Film: Mulan (1998)
19 - Oliver Twist / Disney Film: Oliver Twist (1997)
20 - Peter Pan And Wendy / Disney Film: Peter Pan (1953) and Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)
21 - The Adventures Of Pinocchio / Disney Film: Pinocchio (1940)
22 - The Story Of Pocahontas / Disney Film: Pocahontas (1995)
23 - The Marvelous Land Of Oz / Disney Film: Oz The Great And The Powerful (2013)
24 - Ozma Of Oz / Disney Film: Oz The Great And The Powerful (2013)
25 - The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood / Disney Film: Robin Hood (1973)
26 - Rapunzel / Disney Film: Tangled (2010)
27 - Briar Rose / Disney Film: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
28 - Snow-white and Rose-red / Disney Film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
29 - The Swiss Family Robinson / Disney Film: Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
30 - The Wind In The Willows / Disney Film: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
31 - The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow / Disney Film: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
32 - The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame / Disney Film: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1996)
33 - The Jungle Book / Disney Film: The Jungle Book (1967) and The Jungle Book (2016)
34 - Tarzan Of The Apes / Disney Film: Tarzan (1999)
35 - The Three Musketeers / Disney Film: The Three Musketeers (1993)
36 - The Reluctant Dragon / Disney Film: The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
37 - Treasure Island / Disney Film: Treasure Island (1950)
38 - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Disney Film: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
39 - White Fang / Disney Film: White Fang (1991)
40 - Frankenstein / Disney Film: Frankenweenie (2012)
41 - Toby Tyler / Disney Film: Toby Tyler (1960)
42 - Pollyanna / Disney Film: Pollyanna (1960)
43 - The Ugly Duckling / Disney Film: The Ugly Duckling (1939)
44 - A Midsummer’s Night Dream / Disney Film: Strange Magic (2015)
45 - Rome And Juliet / Disney Film: Gnomeo And Juliet (2011)
46 - The Frog-Prince / Disney Film: The Princess And The Frog (2009)
47 - Hamlet  / Disney Film: The Lion King (1994)
48 - Jack and the Beanstalk / Disney Film: Gigantic (2018)
49 - The Steadfast Tin-Soldier / Disney Film: Fantasia 2000 (1999)
50 - Casey At The Bat / Disney Film: Make Mine Music (1946)
Table of Contents
50 Classic Stories Which Were Turned Into Famous Animated Movies
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Notice
Chapter 1 Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
Chapter 2 Our Gang's Dark Oath
Chapter 3 We Ambuscade the A-rabs
Chapter 4 The Hair-ball Oracle
Chapter 5 Pap Starts in on a New Life
Chapter 6 Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
Chapter 7 I Fool Pap and Get Away
Chapter 8 I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
Chapter 9 The House of Death Floats By
Chapter 10 What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
Chapter 11 They're After Us!
Chapter 12 "Better Let Blame Well Alone"
Chapter 13 Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
Chapter 14 Was Solomon Wise?
Chapter 15 Fooling Poor Old Jim
Chapter 16 The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
Chapter 17 The Grangerfords Take Me In
Chapter 18 Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
Chapter 19 The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
Chapter 20 What Royalty Did to Parkville
Chapter 21 An Arkansaw Difficulty
Chapter 22 Why the Lynching Bee Failed
Chapter 23 The Orneriness of Kings
Chapter 24 The King Turns Parson
Chapter 25 All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
Chapter 26 I Steal the King's Plunder
Chapter 27 Dead Peter Has His Gold
Chapter 28 Overreaching Don't Pay
Chapter 29 I Light Out in the Storm
Chapter 30 The Gold Saves the Thieves
Chapter 31 You Can't Pray a Lie
Chapter 32 I Have a New Name
Chapter 33 The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
Chapter 34 We Cheer Up Jim
Chapter 35 Dark, Deep-Laid Plans
Chapter 36 Trying to Help Jim
Chapter 37 Jim Gets His Witch Pie
Chapter 38 "Here a Captive Heart Buried"
Chapter 39 Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
Chapter 40 A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
Chapter 41 "Must 'a' Been Sperits"
Chapter 42 Why They Didn't Hang Jim
Chapter 43 Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chapter 1 Down the Rabbit Hole
Chapter 2 The Pool of Tears
Chapter 3 A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
Chapter 4 The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
Chapter 5 Advice from a Caterpillar
Chapter 6 Pig and Pepper
Chapter 7 A Mad Tea-Party
Chapter 8 The Queen’s Croquet Ground
Chapter 9 The Mock Turtle’s Story
Chapter 10 The Lobster-Quadrille
Chapter 11 Who Stole the Tarts?
Chapter 12 Alice’s Evidence
Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There)
Chapter 1 Looking-Glass House
Chapter 2 The Garden of Live Flowers
Chapter 3 Looking-Glass Insects
Chapter 4 Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Chapter 5 Wool and Water
Chapter 6 Humpty Dumpty
Chapter 7 The Lion and the Unicorn
Chapter 8 "It's my own Invention"
Chapter 9 Queen Alice
Chapter 10 Shaking
Chapter 11 Waking
Chapter 12 Which Dreamed it?
Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Translator's preface
Redactor's Note
Chapter 1 The Professor and His Family
Chapter 2 A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price
Chapter 3 The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor
Chapter 4 The Enemy to Be Starved into Submission
Chapter 5 Famine, Then Victory, Followed by Dismay
Chapter 6 Exciting Discussions about an Unparalleled Enterprise
Chapter 7 A Woman's Courage
Chapter 8 Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent
Chapter 9 Iceland! But What Next?
Chapter 10 Interesting Conversations with Icelandic Savants
Chapter 11 A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth
Chapter 12 A Barren Land
Chapter 13 Hospitality under the Arctic Circle
Chapter 14 But Arctics can be Inhospitable, Too
Chapter 15 Snæfell at Last
Chapter 16 Boldly down the Crater
Chapter 17 Vertical Descent
Chapter 18 The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths
Chapter 19 Geological Studies in Situ
Chapter 20 The First Signs of Distress
Chapter 21 Compassion Fuses the Professor's Heart
Chapter 22 Total Failure of Water
Chapter 23 Water Discovered
Chapter 24 Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I' the Ground So Fast?
Chapter 25 De Profundis
Chapter 26 The Worst Peril of All
Chapter 27 Lost in the Bowels of the Earth
Chapter 28 The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery
Chapter 29 Thalatta! Thalatta!
Chapter 30 A New Mare Internum
Chapter 31 Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery
Chapter 32 Wonders of the Deep
Chapter 33 A Battle of Monsters
Chapter 34 The Great Geyser
Chapter 35 An Electric Storm
Chapter 36 Calm Philosophic Discussions
Chapter 37 The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology
Chapter 38 The Professor in His Chair Again
Chapter 39 Forest Scenery Illuminated by Eletricity
Chapter 40 Preparations for Blasting a Passage to the Centre of the Earth
Chapter 41 The Great Explosion and the Rush down below
Chapter 42 Headlong Speed Upward through the Horrors of Darkness
Chapter 43 Shot out of a Volcano at Last!
Chapter 44 Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean
Chapter 45 All's Well That Ends Well
The End
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper
Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper
Henny Penny (Chicken Little)
Henny Penny (Chicken Little)
A Christmas Carol
Chapter 1 Marley’s Ghost
Chapter 2 The First Of The Three Spirits
Chapter 3 The Second Of The Three Spirits
Chapter 4 The Last Of The Spirits
Chapter 5 The End Of It
The Snow Queen
STORY THE FIRST: Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments
SECOND STORY: A Little Boy and a Little Girl
THIRD STORY: The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure
FOURTH STORY: The Prince and Princess
FIFTH STORY: Little Robber-Girl
SIXTH STORY: The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman
SEVENTH STORY: Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last
A Princess of Mars
Foreward
Chapter 1 On the Arizona Hills
Chapter 2 The Escape of the Dead
Chapter 3 My Advent on Mars
Chapter 4 A Prisoner
Chapter 5 I Elude My Watchdog
Chapter 6 A Fight That Won Friends
Chapter 7 Child-Raising on Mars
Chapter 8 A Fair Captive From the Sky
Chapter 9 I Learn the Language
Chapter 10 Champion and Chief
Chapter 11 With Dejah Thoris
Chapter 12 A Prisoner With Power
Chapter 13 Love-Making on Mars
Chapter 14 A Duel to the Death
Chapter 15 Sola Tells Me Her Story
Chapter 16 We Plan Escape
Chapter 17 A Costly Recapture
Chapter 18 Chained in Warhoon
Chapter 19 Battling in the Arena
Chapter 20 In the Atmosphere Factory
Chapter 21 An Air Scout for Zodanga
Chapter 22 I Find Dejah
Chapter 23 Lost in the Sky
Chapter 24 Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend
Chapter 25 The Looting of Zodanga
Chapter 26 Through Carnage to Joy
Chapter 27 From Joy to Death
Chapter 28 At the Arizona Cave
Kidnapped
PREFACE TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION
DEDICATION
Chapter 1 I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS
Chapter 2 I COME TO MY JOURNEY'S END
Chapter 3 I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE
Chapter 4 I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS
Chapter 5 I GO TO THE QUEEN'S FERRY
Chapter 6 WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN'S FERRY
Chapter 7 I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG "COVENANT" OF DYSART
Chapter 8 THE ROUND-HOUSE
Chapter 9 THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD
Chapter 10 THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE
Chapter 11 THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER
Chapter 12 I HEAR OF THE "RED FOX"
Chapter 13 THE LOSS OF THE BRIG
Chapter 14 THE ISLET
Chapter 15 THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL
Chapter 16 THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN
Chapter 17 THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX
Chapter 18 I TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE
Chapter 19 THE HOUSE OF FEAR
Chapter 20 THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS
Chapter 21 THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH
Chapter 22 THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR
Chapter 23 CLUNY'S CAGE
Chapter 24 THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE QUARREL
Chapter 25 IN BALQUHIDDER
Chapter 26 END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH
Chapter 27 I COME TO MR. RANKEILLOR
Chapter 28 I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE
Chapter 29 I COME INTO MY KINGDOM
Chapter 30 GOOD-BYE
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 1 Start in Life
Chapter 2 Slavery and Escape
Chapter 3 Wrecked on a Desert Island
Chapter 4 First Weeks on the Island
Chapter 5 Build a House - The Journal
Chapter 6 Ill and Conscience-stricken
Chapter 7 Agricultural Experiment
Chapter 8 Surveys his Position
Chapter 9 A Boat
Chapter 10 Tames Goats
Chapter 11 Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand
Chapter 12 A Cave Retreat
Chapter 13 Wreck of a Spanish Ship
Chapter 14 A Dream Realized
Chapter 15 Friday's Education
Chapter 16 Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals
Chapter 17 Visit of Mutineers
Chapter 18 The Ship Recovered
Chapter 19 Return to England
Chapter 20 Fight Between Friday and a Bear
Ballad of Mulan
Ballad of Mulan
Oliver Twist
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)
Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH
Chapter 2 THE SHADOW
Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
Chapter 4 THE FLIGHT
Chapter 5 THE ISLAND COME TRUE
Chapter 6 THE LITTLE HOUSE
Chapter 7 THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND
Chapter 8 THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON
Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD
Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME
Chapter 11 WENDY'S STORY
Chapter 12 THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF
Chapter 13 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
Chapter 14 THE PIRATE SHIP
Chapter 15 "HOOK OR ME THIS TIME"
Chapter 16 THE RETURN HOME
Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP
The Adventures Of Pinocchio
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 Geppetto returns home and gives his own breakfast to the Marionette
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13 The Inn of the Red Lobster
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28 Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried in a pan like a fish
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36 Pinocchio finally ceases to be a Marionette and becomes a boy
The Story Of Pocahontas
The Story Of Pocahontas
Story Of Pocahontas, Continued
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Author's Note
Chapter 1 Tip Manufactures a Pumpkinhead
Chapter 2 The Marvelous Powder of Life
Chapter 3 The Flight of the Fugitives
Chapter 4 Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic
Chapter 5 The Awakening of the Saw-horse
Chapter 6 Jack Pumpkinhead's Ride to the Emerald City
Chapter 7 His Majesty the Scarecrow
Chapter 8 Gen. Jinjur's Army of Revolt
Chapter 9 The Scarecrow Plans an Escape
Chapter 10 The Journey to the Tin Woodman
Chapter 11 A Nickel-Plated Emperor
Chapter 12 Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E.
Chapter 13 A Highly Magnified History
Chapter 14 Old Mombi Indulges in Witchcraft
Chapter 15 The Prisoners of the Queen
Chapter 16 The Scarecrow Takes Time to Think
Chapter 17 The Astonishing Flight of the Gump
Chapter 18 In the Jackdaw's Nest
Chapter 19 Dr. Nikidik's Famous Wishing Pills
Chapter 20 The Scarecrow Appeals to Glenda the Good
Chapter 21 The Tin-Woodman Plucks a Rose
Chapter 22 The Transformation of Old Mombi
Chapter 23 Princess Ozma of Oz
Chapter 24 The Riches of Content
Ozma of Oz
Author's Note
Chapter 1 The Girl in the Chicken Coop
Chapter 2 The Yellow Hen
Chapter 3 Letters in the Sand
Chapter 4 Tiktok, the Machine Man
Chapter 5 Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail
Chapter 6 The Heads of Langwidere
Chapter 7 Ozma of Oz to the Rescue
Chapter 8 The Hungry Tiger
Chapter 9 The Royal Family of Ev
Chapter 10 The Giant with the Hammer
Chapter 11 The Nome King
Chapter 12 The Eleven Guesses
Chapter 13 The Nome King Laughs
Chapter 14 Dorothy Tries to be Brave
Chapter 15 Billina Frightens the Nome King
Chapter 16 Purple, Green and Gold
Chapter 17 The Scarecrow Wins the Fight
Chapter 18 The Fate of the Tin Woodman
Chapter 19 The King of Ev
Chapter 20 The Emerald City
Chapter 21 Dorothy's Magic Belt
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Preface
Chapter 1 How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw
Chapter 2 Robin Hood and the Tinker
Chapter 3 The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town
Chapter 4 Will Stutely Rescued by His Companions
Chapter 5 Robin Hood Turns Butcher
Chapter 6 Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair
Chapter 7 How Little John Lived at the Sheriff's
Chapter 8 Little John and the Tanner of Blyth
Chapter 9 Robin Hood and Will Scarlet
Chapter 10 The Adventure with Midge the Miller's Son
Chapter 11 Robin Hood and Allan a Dale
Chapter 12 Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar
Chapter 13 Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage
Chapter 14 Robin Hood Aids a Sorrowful Knight
Chapter 15 How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts
Chapter 16 Little John Turns Barefoot Friar
Chapter 17 Robin Hood Turns Beggar
Chapter 18 Robin Hood Shoots Before Queen Eleanor
Chapter 19 The Chase of Robin Hood
Chapter 20 Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne
Chapter 21 King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest
Chapter 22 Epilogue
Rapunzel
Rapunzel
Briar Rose (Sleepin Beauty)
Briar Rose (Sleepin Beauty)
Snow-white and Rose-red
Snow-white and Rose-red
The Swiss Family Robinson
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
CONCLUSION.
POSTSCRIPT TWO YEARS AFTER.
The Wind in the Willows
Chapter 1 THE RIVER BANK
Chapter 2 THE OPEN ROAD
Chapter 3 THE WILD WOOD
Chapter 4 MR. BADGER
Chapter 5 DULCE DOMUM
Chapter 6 MR. TOAD
Chapter 7 THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Chapter 8 TOAD'S ADVENTURES
Chapter 9 WAYFARERS ALL
Chapter 10 THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
Chapter 11 'LIKE SUMMER TEMPESTS CAME HIS TEARS'
Chapter 12 THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
PREFACE
Part 1
Chapter 1 THE GRAND HALL
Chapter 2 PIERRE GRINGOIRE
Chapter 3 MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL
Chapter 4 MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE
Chapter 5 QUASIMODO
Chapter 6 ESMERALDA
Part 2
Chapter 1 FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA
Chapter 2 THE PLACE DE GREVE
Chapter 3 KISSES FOR BLOWS
Chapter 4 THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING
Chapter 5 RESULT OF THE DANGERS
Chapter 6 THE BROKEN JUG
Chapter 7 A BRIDAL NIGHT
Part 3
Chapter 1 NOTRE-DAME
Chapter 2 A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS
Part 4
Chapter 1 GOOD SOULS
Chapter 2 CLAUDE FROLLO
Chapter 3 IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE
Chapter 4 THE DOG AND HIS MASTER
Chapter 5 MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO
Chapter 6 UNPOPULARITY
Part 5
Chapter 1 ABBAS BEATI MARTINI
Chapter 2 THIS WILL KILL THAT
Part 6
Chapter 1 AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY
Chapter 2 THE RAT-HOLE
Chapter 3 HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE
Chapter 4 A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER
Chapter 5 END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE
Part 7
Chapter 1 THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE’S SECRET TO A GOAT
Chapter 2 A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
Chapter 3 THE BELLS
Chapter 4 ANArKH
Chapter 5 THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK
Chapter 6 THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE
Chapter 7 THE MYSTERIOUS MONK
Chapter 8 THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER
Part 8
Chapter 1 THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF
Chapter 2 CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF
Chapter 3 END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF
Chapter 4 LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA— LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER HERE
Chapter 5 THE MOTHER
Chapter 6 THREE HUMAN HEARTS DIFFERENTLY CONSTRUCTED
Part 9
Chapter 1 DELIRIUM
Chapter 2 HUNCHBACKED, ONE EYED, LAME
Chapter 3 DEAF
Chapter 4 EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL
Chapter 5 THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR
Chapter 6 CONTINUATION OF THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR
Part 10
Chapter 1 GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.— RUE DES BERNARDINS
Chapter 2 TURN VAGABOND
Chapter 3 LONG LIVE MIRTH
Chapter 4 AN AWKWARD FRIEND
Chapter 5 THE RETREAT IN WHICH MONSIEUR LOUIS OF FRANCE SAYS HIS PRAYERS
Chapter 6 LITTLE SWORD IN POCKET
Chapter 7 CHATEAUPERS TO THE RESCUE
Part 11
Chapter 1 THE LITTLE SHOE
Chapter 2 THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE CLAD IN WHITE. (Dante.)
Chapter 3 THE MARRIAGE OF PHOEBUS
Chapter 4 THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO
NOTE ADDED TO THE DEFINITIVE EDITION
The Jungle Book
Chapter 1 Mowgli's Brothers
Chapter 2 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
Chapter 3 Kaa's Hunting
Chapter 4 Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
Chapter 5 "Tiger! Tiger!"
Chapter 6 Mowgli's Song
Chapter 7 The White Seal
Chapter 8 Lukannon
Chapter 9 "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
Chapter 10 Darzee's Chant
Chapter 11 Toomai of the Elephants
Chapter 12 Shiv and the Grasshopper
Chapter 13 Her Majesty's Servants
Chapter 14 Parade Song of the Camp Animals
Tarzan of the Apes
Chapter 1 Out to Sea
Chapter 2 The Savage Home
Chapter 3 Life and Death
Chapter 4 The Apes
Chapter 5 The White Ape
Chapter 6 Jungle Battles
Chapter 7 The Light of Knowledge
Chapter 8 The Tree-top Hunter
Chapter 9 Man and Man
Chapter 10 The Fear-Phantom
Chapter 11 King of the Apes
Chapter 12 Man's Reason
Chapter 13 His Own Kind
Chapter 14 At the Mercy of the Jungle
Chapter 15 The Forest God
Chapter 16 Most Remarkable
Chapter 17 Burials
Chapter 18 The Jungle Toll
Chapter 19 The Call of the Primitive
Chapter 20 Heredity
Chapter 21 The Village of Torture
Chapter 22 The Search Party
Chapter 23 Brother Men
Chapter 24 Lost Treasure
Chapter 25 The Outpost of the World
Chapter 26 The Height of Civilization
Chapter 27 The Giant Again
Chapter 28 Conclusion
The Three Musketeers
Preface
Chapter 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
Chapter 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
Chapter 3 THE AUDIENCE
Chapter 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
Chapter 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
Chapter 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
Chapter 7 THE INTERIOR OF "THE MUSKETEERS"
Chapter 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
Chapter 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
Chapter 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
Chapter 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
Chapter 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
Chapter 14 THE MAN OF MEUNG
Chapter 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
Chapter 16 M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL, IN ORDER TO RING IT, AS HE DID BEFORE
Chapter 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
Chapter 18 LOVER AND HUSBAND
Chapter 19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
Chapter 20 THE JOURNEY
Chapter 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
Chapter 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
Chapter 23 THE RENDEZ-VOUS
Chapter 24 THE PAVILION
Chapter 25 PORTHOS
Chapter 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
Chapter 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
Chapter 28 THE RETURN
Chapter 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
Chapter 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
Chapter 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
Chapter 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
Chapter 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
Chapter 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
Chapter 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
Chapter 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
Chapter 37 MILADY'S SECRET
Chapter 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMODING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURED HIS EQUIPMENT
Chapter 39 A VISION
Chapter 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
Chapter 41 THE SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE
Chapter 42 THE ANJOU WINE
Chapter 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
Chapter 44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
Chapter 45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
Chapter 46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
Chapter 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
Chapter 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
Chapter 49 FATALITY
Chapter 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
Chapter 51 OFFICER
Chapter 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
Chapter 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
Chapter 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
Chapter 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
Chapter 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
Chapter 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
Chapter 58 ESCAPE
Chapter 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH
Chapter 60 IN FRANCE
Chapter 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
Chapter 62 TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS
Chapter 63 THE DROP OF WATER
Chapter 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
Chapter 65 TRIAL
Chapter 66 EXECUTION
Chapter 67 CONCLUSION
Chapter 68 EPILOGUE
The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon
Treasure Island
Part 1 The Old Buccaneer
Chapter 1 The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
Chapter 2 Black Dog Appears and Disappears
Chapter 3 The Black Spot
Chapter 4 The Sea-chest
Chapter 5 The Last of the Blind Man
Chapter 6 The Captain's Papers
Part 2 The Sea Cook
Chapter 1 I Go to Bristol
Chapter 2 At the Sign of the Spy-glass
Chapter 3 Powder and Arms
Chapter 4 The Voyage
Chapter 5 What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
Chapter 6 Council of War
Part 3 My Shore Adventure
Chapter 1 How My Shore Adventure Began
Chapter 2 The First Blow
Chapter 3 The Man of the Island
Part 4 The Stockade
Chapter 1 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned
Chapter 2 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat's Last Trip
Chapter 3 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting
Chapter 4 Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
Chapter 5 Silver's Embassy
Chapter 6 The Attack
Part 5 My Sea Adventure
Chapter 1 How My Sea Adventure Began
Chapter 2 The Ebb-tide Runs
Chapter 3 The Cruise of the Coracle
Chapter 4 I Strike the Jolly Roger
Chapter 5 Israel Hands
Chapter 6 "Pieces of Eight"
Part 6 Captain Silver
Chapter 1 In the Enemy's Camp
Chapter 2 The Black Spot Again
Chapter 3 On Parole
Chapter 4 The Treasure Hunt--Flint's Pointer
Chapter 5 The Treasure Hunt--The Voice Among the Trees
Chapter 6 The Fall of a Chieftain
Chapter 7 And Last
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Part 1
Chapter 1 A Runaway Reef
Chapter 2 The Pros and Cons
Chapter 3 As Master Wishes
Chapter 4 Ned Land
Chapter 5 At Random!
Chapter 6 At Full Steam
Chapter 7 A Whale of Unknown Species
Chapter 8 "Mobilis in Mobili"
Chapter 9 The Tantrums of Ned Land
Chapter 10 The Man of the Waters
Chapter 11 The Nautilus
Chapter 12 Everything through Electricity
Chapter 13 Some Figures
Chapter 14 The Black Current
Chapter 15 An Invitation in Writing
Chapter 16 Strolling the Plains
Chapter 17 An Underwater Forest
Chapter 18 Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
Chapter 19 Vanikoro
Chapter 20 The Torres Strait
Chapter 21 Some Days Ashore
Chapter 22 The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
Chapter 23 "Aegri Somnia"
Chapter 24 The Coral Realm
Part 2
Chapter 1 The Indian Ocean
Chapter 2 A New Proposition from Captain Nemo
Chapter 3 A Pearl Worth Ten Million
Chapter 4 The Red Sea
Chapter 5 Arabian Tunnel
Chapter 6 The Greek Islands
Chapter 7 The Mediterranean in Forty–Eight Hours
Chapter 8 The Bay of Vigo
Chapter 9 A Lost Continent
Chapter 10 The Underwater Coalfields
Chapter 11 The Sargasso Sea
Chapter 12 Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales
Chapter 13 The Ice Bank
Chapter 14 The South Pole
Chapter 15 Accident or Incident?
Chapter 16 Shortage of Air
Chapter 17 From Cape Horn to the Amazon
Chapter 18 The Devilfish
Chapter 19 The Gulf Stream
Chapter 20 In Latitude 47° 24' and Longitude 17° 28'
Chapter 21 A Mass Execution
Chapter 22 The Last Words of Captain Nemo
Chapter 23 Conclusion
White Fang
Part 1
Chapter 1 THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT
Chapter 2 THE SHE-WOLF
Chapter 3 THE HUNGER CRY
Part 2
Chapter 1 THE BATTLE OF THE FANGS
Chapter 2 THE LAIR
Chapter 3 THE GREY CUB
Chapter 4 THE WALL OF THE WORLD
Chapter 5 THE LAW OF MEAT
Part 3
Chapter 1 THE MAKERS OF FIRE
Chapter 2 THE BONDAGE
Chapter 3 THE OUTCAST
Chapter 4 THE TRAIL OF THE GODS
Chapter 5 THE COVENANT
Chapter 6 THE FAMINE
Part 4
Chapter 1 THE ENEMY OF HIS KIND
Chapter 2 THE MAD GOD
Chapter 3 THE REIGN OF HATE
Chapter 4 THE CLINGING DEATH
Chapter 5 THE INDOMITABLE
Chapter 6 THE LOVE-MASTER
Part 5
Chapter 1 THE LONG TRAIL
Chapter 2 THE SOUTHLAND
Chapter 3 THE GOD’S DOMAIN
Chapter 4 THE CALL OF KIND
Chapter 5 THE SLEEPING WOLF
Frankenstein
Part 1 Letters
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
Part 2 Story
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
1. First part
2. Walton, in continuation
Toby Tyler, Or Ten Weeks With A Circus
Chapter 1 Toby’s Introduction To The Circus
Chapter 2 Toby Runs Away From Home
Chapter 3 The Night Ride
Chapter 4 The First Day With The Circus
Chapter 5 The Counterfeit Ten Cent Piece
Chapter 6 A Tender Hearted Skeleton
Chapter 7 An Accident And Its Consequences
Chapter 8 Capture Of The Monkeys
Chapter 9 The Dinner Party
Chapter 10 Mr. Stubbs At A Party
Chapter 11 A Stormy Night
Chapter 12 Toby’s Great Misfortune
Chapter 13 Toby Attempts To Resign His Situation
Chapter 14 Mr. Castle Teaches Toby To Ride
Chapter 15 Toby’s Friends Present Him With A Costume
Chapter 16 Toby’s First Appearance In The Ring
Chapter 17 Off For Home!
Chapter 18 A Day Of Freedom
Chapter 19 Mr Stubbs’s Mischief, And His Sad Fate
Chapter 20 Home And Uncle Daniel
Pollyanna
Chapter 1 Miss Polly
Chapter 2 Old Tom and Nancy
Chapter 3 The Coming of Pollyanna
Chapter 4 The Little Attic Room
Chapter 5 The Game
Chapter 6 A Question of Duty
Chapter 7 Pollyanna and Punishments
Chapter 8 Pollyanna Pays a Visit
Chapter 9 Which Tells of the Man
Chapter 10 A Surprise for Mrs. Snow
Chapter 11 Introducing Jimmy
Chapter 12 Before the Ladies' Aid
Chapter 13 In Pendleton Woods
Chapter 14 Just a Matter of Jelly
Chapter 15 Dr. Chilton
Chapter 16 A Red Rose and a Lace Shawl
Chapter 17 "Just Like a Book"
Chapter 18 Prisms
Chapter 19 Which Is Somewhat Surprising
Chapter 20 Which Is More Surprising
Chapter 21 A Question Answered
Chapter 22 Sermons and Woodboxes
Chapter 23 An Accident
Chapter 24 John Pendleton
Chapter 25 A Waiting Game
Chapter 26 A Door Ajar
Chapter 27 Two Visits
Chapter 28 The Game and Its Players
Chapter 29 Through an Open Window
Chapter 30 Jimmy Takes the Helm
Chapter 31 A New Uncle
Chapter 32 Which Is a Letter from Pollyanna
The Ugly Duckling
The Ugly Duckling
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act I
SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.
Act II
SCENE I. A wood near Athens.
SCENE II. Another part of the wood.
Act III
SCENE I. The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.
SCENE II. Another part of the wood.
Act IV
SCENE I. The same. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA lying asleep.
SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.
Act V
SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
Romeo and Juliet
Act I
Prologue
SCENE I. Verona. A public place.
SCENE II. A street.
SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house.
SCENE IV. A street.
SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house.
Act II
Prologue
SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.
SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.
SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.
SCENE IV. A street.
SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.
SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell.
Act III
SCENE I. A public place.
SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.
SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.
SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house.
SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.
Act IV
SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell.
SCENE II. Hall in Capulet's house.
SCENE III. Juliet's chamber.
SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.
SCENE V. Juliet's chamber.
Act V
SCENE I. Mantua. A street.
SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell.
SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.
The Frog-prince
The Frog-prince
Hamlet
Act I
SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
SCENE II. A room of state in the castle.
SCENE III. A room in Polonius' house.
SCENE IV. The platform.
SCENE V. Another part of the platform.
Act II
SCENE I. A room in POLONIUS' house.
SCENE II. A room in the castle
Act III
SCENE I. A room in the castle.
SCENE II. A hall in the castle.
SCENE III. A room in the castle.
SCENE IV. The Queen's closet.
Act IV
SCENE I. A room in the castle.
SCENE II. Another room in the castle.
SCENE III. Another room in the castle.
SCENE IV. A plain in Denmark.
SCENE V. Elsinore. A room in the castle.
SCENE VI. Another room in the castle.
SCENE VII. Another room in the castle.
Act V
SCENE I. A churchyard.
SCENE II. A hall in the castle.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack Sells the Cow
Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk
The Hen that Lays Golden Eggs
The Money Bags
The Talking Harp
The Giant Breaks His Neck
The Steadfast Tin-soldier
THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER
Casey at the Bat
Casey at the Bat

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain





Table of Contents
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Notice
Chapter 1 Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
Chapter 2 Our Gang's Dark Oath
Chapter 3 We Ambuscade the A-rabs
Chapter 4 The Hair-ball Oracle
Chapter 5 Pap Starts in on a New Life
Chapter 6 Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
Chapter 7 I Fool Pap and Get Away
Chapter 8 I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
Chapter 9 The House of Death Floats By
Chapter 10 What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
Chapter 11 They're After Us!
Chapter 12 "Better Let Blame Well Alone"
Chapter 13 Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
Chapter 14 Was Solomon Wise?
Chapter 15 Fooling Poor Old Jim
Chapter 16 The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
Chapter 17 The Grangerfords Take Me In
Chapter 18 Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
Chapter 19 The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
Chapter 20 What Royalty Did to Parkville
Chapter 21 An Arkansaw Difficulty
Chapter 22 Why the Lynching Bee Failed
Chapter 23 The Orneriness of Kings
Chapter 24 The King Turns Parson
Chapter 25 All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
Chapter 26 I Steal the King's Plunder
Chapter 27 Dead Peter Has His Gold
Chapter 28 Overreaching Don't Pay
Chapter 29 I Light Out in the Storm
Chapter 30 The Gold Saves the Thieves
Chapter 31 You Can't Pray a Lie
Chapter 32 I Have a New Name
Chapter 33 The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
Chapter 34 We Cheer Up Jim
Chapter 35 Dark, Deep-Laid Plans
Chapter 36 Trying to Help Jim
Chapter 37 Jim Gets His Witch Pie
Chapter 38 "Here a Captive Heart Buried"
Chapter 39 Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
Chapter 40 A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
Chapter 41 "Must 'a' Been Sperits"
Chapter 42 Why They Didn't Hang Jim
Chapter 43 Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write

Notice

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.

EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.

THE AUTHOR.

Chapter 1 Discover Moses and the Bulrushers

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round— more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.

Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling- book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry—set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry—why don't you try to behave?" Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good.

Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn't think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.

Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome. By and by they fetched the niggers in and had prayers, and then everybody was off to bed. I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table. Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. I got so down-hearted and scared I did wish I had some company. Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up. I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away. But I hadn't no confidence. You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider.

I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke; for the house was all as still as death now, and so the widow wouldn't know. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom—boom—boom—twelve licks; and all still again—stiller than ever. Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees— something was a stirring. I set still and listened. Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! me-yow!" down there. That was good! Says I, "me-yow! me-yow!" as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed. Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.

Chapter 2 Our Gang's Dark Oath

WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. We scrouched down and laid still. Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says:

"Who dah?"

He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders. Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch. Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy—if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. Pretty soon Jim says:

"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin."

So he set down on the ground betwixt me and Tom. He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine. My nose begun to itch. It itched till the tears come into my eyes. But I dasn't scratch. Then it begun to itch on the inside. Next I got to itching underneath. I didn't know how I was going to set still. This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that. I was itching in eleven different places now. I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try. Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore—and then I was pretty soon comfortable again.