When Pap leaves him alone, Huck escapes and makes it appear as if he has been murdered and dumped into the river. Huck then leaves, but is caught by his father, who confines him in a shack across the river. One night, when Pap goes to the widow and demands eight hundred dollars from her to keep his son, Huck overhears and decides to leave to prevent her from impoverishing herself for him. Though the widow loves Huck and he is fond of her, he finds it difficult to behave like the gentleman she wants, preferring loafing to going to school and going barefoot to wearing shoes. Jim got down on his knees, and put his ear against it and listened.In the mid-eighteenth century, along the Mississippi River, young Huckleberry Finn, the son of the loutish drunk "Pap" Finn, lives with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. 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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