The Widow Douglas takes Huck in after he helps save her from a violent home invasion. She tries her best to civilize him, believing it to be her Christian duty.

The two swindlers advertise a three-night engagement of a play called The Royal Nonesuch. Of course, it's nothing more than a very short, bawdy sham, and they very nearly find themselves lynched as a result.

He disguises Jim in a calico stage robe and blue face paint and posts a sign on him that reads, "Sick Arab--but harmless when not out of his head."

The Grangerford family may seem pleasant and respectable, but they've had a hardcore feud going on with the nearby Shepherdson clan for about thirty years.

Tom advises Huck: "We can tear up our sheets and make him a rope-ladder easy enough. And we can send it to him in a pie; it's mostly done that way. And I've et worse pies."

After faking his own death, Huck sets off downriver and settles on Jackson's Island.

"I run in the parlor and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin. The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on. I tucked the money-bag under the lid, just down beyond where his hands were crossed, which made me creep, they was so cold."

Entering the house to seek loot, Jim finds the naked body of a dead man lying on the floor, shot in the back. He prevents Huck from viewing the corpse.

"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.

Mary Jane Wilks is the eldest daughter of the deceased George Wilks. She believes the "king's" story that he is her real uncle, but when Huck starts to fall for her, he tells her the truth.