The Adventures of Huck Finn Page #4

-Jim! Jim!

- Jim! Jim!

-Jim!

-Jim!

Jim.

Make a move, and I'll

blast you in half!

That's far enough now.

See if there's anybody else out there.

Why, Pa!

He's no Shepherdson!

- Hush, Sophie.

- No, he isn't. Put those guns down!

There's nothin' Shepherdson

about him at all.

- Look at that face.

- Well, then, what is your name, son?

I-I-It's

George Jackson, sir.

- You see! - Put your hand

down. - Hey, what's goin' on?

- Here, let me dry you off.

- Ain't there no Shepherdsons around?

You know, we might've been shot,

you bein' so slow in comin', Billy.

Where did you come from, George?

I fell off a steamboat, sir.

- Whoa, fell off a steamboat!

- Oh, you poor boy! Falls off a steamboat,

and then you go and

scare him to death!

They was real nice

once they decided not to kill me.

They told me they was the Grangerfords,

and asked me a million questions.

I decided it'd be best to leave out

the truth, so I slung 'em a story.

And after my pa got killed

in that stampede,

my ma ran off

with a circus clown.

Never saw her again.

- Well, you can stay here with us.

- As long as you like.

Thanks.

You see what I'm talkin' about?

Hey, George! Here's

a present for bein'my new friend.

This is the nicest thing

anybody's ever given me.

- Thanks, Billy.

- Billy!

Everything's been real quiet between

the Shepherdsons and us lately,

so don't you go

stirring things up.

Oh, Sophie, leave me alone.

Come on, George.

Say, Billy, let's

slide on down to the river.

I wanna see if any of my...

belongings washed up on shore.

Well, first we gotta

take care of something.

Seems a lot of things have been

washing up lately.

A steamer hit his raft last night

and killed his master.

So he's ours.

We had to chain him.

Hey! Get up!

Come on, get up!

Looks a little rough. Me and you

gotta break him in a little bit.

- Huck! So good to see you.

- Huck? Who you callin' Huck?

Why, my name's...

Bet ya can't spell my name?

I'll bet ya that dare.

It's G-O-R-G J-X-O-N.

You done it, all right.

I'm George Jackson.

Pleased to meet ya, sir.

Say, Billy...

why is everybody carryin' all them guns

and lookin' so itchy to use 'em?

Well, we got us

a feud goin' on.

Feud!

What's a feud?

You don't know

what a feud is?

It's like this. A man has a fight

with another man and kills him.

Then his brother kills him. Goes

on and on with everybody's brother...

tryin'to kill everybody else's brother,

until everybody's killed off.

Our feud's been goin' on

for 30 years.

Well, how'd it start?

- I don't know. - You mean, you don't

know why y'all killin' each other?

Yes, sir! Yes, sir!

Hey, Boggs! You know Pa don't want

you doin' that any more.

- Get to work now. Come on!

- Yes, master.

Your child got three days work

before he can move on.

- Hello, boys.

- Hey, Pop.

Huck!

On that river, I had

a taste of freedom.

And now bein' a slave again...

Well, it feels so...

so very bad.

Let's get on to Cairo,

Huck. Please.

- Let's get on outta here.

- All you think about is yourself, Jim.

Well, what about me?

Don't I deserve somethin'?

I ain't had it so good

in all my life.

Come on, George,

we're goin' fishin'!

And I ain't

in no hurry to leave.

Hey, Boggs,

this one's all yours.

All right, come on,

get down outta there.

Come on, over here.

Now, my daddy was fishin'

on that other bank,

not payin' any attention

to all the rain.

And all of a sudden the bank gave way,

and into the river he went.

Yeah, that's my boy.

All you think about is

yourself, Jim. Well, what about me?

Come on, George,

it's supper time!

I'll be right there.

Jim!

Jim.

It weren't my fault.

If you think I feel bad,

well, you're wrong!

If you think I'm gonna

apologize to a slave,

a runaway slave at that,

well, hah.

I didn't mean for this

to happen, Jim.

It were the worst thing

I ever done in my life.

I'm real sorry, Jim.

Honest, I am.

You're still my best

and only friend.

Huck Finn.

Okay, all right.

Enough of this slop.

-Jim?

- Hmm?

'Bout time for us

to be leavin'.

- Huck?

- Shut up, Jim.

Sorry I'm late.

Cyrus!

What's goin' on?

Miss Sophie went off

to marry a Shepherdson.

- Well, where'd everybody go?

- The women went to raise the relations.

Billy and the menfolk, they gonna

try and kill that Shepherdson boy...

before he crosses the river

with Miss Sophie.

Thanks.

Lots of people

gonna die today.

They're right

up ahead, boy!

Oh, let's go!

- Hey, Billy!

- Hey, Billy.

I-It's me, it's me! Huck...

I mean, George! What's goin' on?

George, they ambushed us! They killed

my pa and all my brothers!

Hell, they pert near killed us all!

Come on, come on!

We should've waited

for the relations.

Them Shepherdsons

knew we were comin'!

- What happened to Miss Sophie? - Her and

that Shepherdson made it across the river.

Them dirty scoundrels.

George, I'm gonna kill 'em.

Billy!

Shoot 'im, boys!

Don't let 'im get away!

- See anything?

- No.

Let's try this way!

Huck! Huckleberry!

You were mighty good

to me, Billy.

I'm sorry

I didn't tell you my real name.

It's Huck.

Huckleberry Finn.

I'm sorry, Billy.

Come on, Huck.

Gotta bring him home.

Jim and me found the

raft and fixed it up as best we could.

It felt good gettin'back on the river.

Other places feel so cramped and smothered.

But the river don't. You always feel

warm and safe and free on the river.

That wasn't my fault.

You are the sorriest

thing I've ever seen.

That Russian fell in the river,

that's what happened.

Hello there!

We're lookin'for Cairo!

Can you tell us

how close we are?

Chuckleheads, you already passed it!

It's about 40 miles back!

Talk about lost!

Must've missed it

that night in the fog, Jim.

I'll be caught

and sold for sure.

How're we gonna

get back to Cairo, Jim?

Sure can't take this raft

back up the river.

And no how can we fight this current.

- No, but we could take a

steamboat upriver! - Yeah!

We'll find one that's goin' north,

and then you can buy us passage.

Yeah, we'll keep headin' south

'til we find us a steamboat.

- Take it all the way back up to Cairo.

- Right up the Ohio.

All the way up

to the free states.

Good thinkin', Huck.

Why, thank you, Jim.

- Here's some more wood, Jim.

- Right there.

Tryin' to get this fire goin'.

Come on, Duke! Over here!

Why are you always

stealin' chickens?

I love chickens.

They're succulent.

- We're chicken thieves! That's as low

as it gets. - Shut up and keep runnin'!

It seems to me, Jim, whenever

anybody's after anybody,

it's usually me

they's after.

Hello there,

we's in need of assist!

- Let's get!

- You bet!

Grab the oars!

- Hold up! I'm right behind you, Duke!

- Come on, push off!

Huh?

What the...

Hey!

Get your own raft!

- Thank you, lads. We'd be obliged.

- Thanks, nothin'!

- You was gonna hightail out and just leave

us, wasn't ya? - No, I weren't. Honest.

- Please, sir. - If ya don't let the boy

go, how's he gonna save our hides?

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