Huck finn Ch 24 Flashcards
there were vilages on each side of the river and the duke and king were
planning on working them again
jim said that he hoped it wouldn’t
take long
when huck and the two men were in town they had to tie Jim up so he
wouldn’t look like a runaway
the duke then put a white wig and whiskers on jim and put him in a gown and
painted him blue
the duke wrote a sign that said” sick arab–but harmless when
not out of is head”
this way jim didn’t have to be
tied up
the duke said that if anyone came meedling, that Jim should hop out of the wigwam and
howl like a beast so that he would be left alone
the duke couldn’t think of a new way to
get money
the king would go to the other
village
the king put on the store clothes and apparently looked grand and like
Leviticus himself
there’s a steamboat at shore and the king tells Huck to go toward it so that they could
come down to the village on ehr
there was a young man on a log and the king asks
where he’s going
the man says he’s going to oreleans and the king tells the man to get aboard and has huck
help him with his bags
the young man thought that the kingwas
mr. wilks
the king says his name is
reverend Elexander Blodgett
apparently Mr. Wilks missed seeing
his brother peter die
peter wanted to see his brothers prior to his death because he hadn’t seen Mr. Wilks for a
long time
peter never met his brother
william
the other brother george died so notw it’s only
harvey and william
peter wrote a letter for harvey telling where his money is hidden and how he wants the
property divided up
harvey lives and preaches in
sheffield england
the young man is going to the
rio de janeiro after orleans
mary jane’s
19
susan’s
15
joanna’s
14
the king basicaly interrogated the man about
peter and the wilkses
peter was a
tanner
george was a
carpenter
harvey was a
minister
peter left 3 or 4 thousand
dollars in cash hidden
the king tells huck to get the duke and the new
carpet-bags
they find a boat from cincinnati and when the members of the boat realize that they only want to go 4 or 5 miles they become
mad
the king says that he would pay them a dollar a mile apiece and they
comply and bring them to the village
the king pretends to be peter’s brother and asks the men on the steamboat
where he lived
the king cries and the duke looks like he’s
going to cry too
one of the men on the ship tells the king about peter’s deat h and the king
continues to cry and tells the duke
huck is ashamed of the men’s
behavior
