Tom and Huck

Smile, damn you.

Smile!

- [ Door Opens ]

- [ Gasps ]

Shut the door.

What do you want?

I have a job for you.

What kind of job?

It's heavy work.

Digging.

We'll need another man.

- When do you want it done?

- Some night soon.

- Where?

- The graveyard.

Unless you're afraid.

The job pays two dollars.

Take it or leave it.

I'll take it.

But the job pays

three dollars.

Unless you think

I deserve more.

No. Three dollars

seems fair enough. Yep.

- [ Sighs, Gasps ]

- [ Clock Chimes ]

[ Chiming ]

[ Snoring ]

## [ Humming ]

And where do you think

you're going?

Go back to sleep, Sid.

I'm just runnin' away from home.

- Again?

- This time for sure.

Me and Joe Harper and Ben Rodgers

is goin' to New Orleans to be steamboat men.

Not if I tell Aunt Polly.

[ Mumbling ]

I knew you were gonna be

your annoying little self, Sid.

So I rigged up

a little surprise for ya.

There.

And so you don't get lonely--

Now, that right there is the most poisonous

spider in the whole world.

If you knock that glass over,

she's gonna be pretty angry.

'Course, it could just be

a little harmless fruit spider.

But, only one way

to find out, right?

[ Man ]

Howdy, boys.!

- Hey, Muff.

- Yeah, hey, Muff.

Where are you headed

this hour of the night?

- We're runnin' away from home.

- Uh-huh.

I used to do that all the time,

until home ran away from me.

Where'd they go?

As far away

as they could.

Come on.

Don't let me stop you.

Hey, when ya comin' back?

- Never!

- Yep, never!

Never, huh?

See ya tomorrow.

- Bye-bye, Hannibal.

- Good-bye! We're gonna be steamboat men.

- Left and bring her into the wind, Mr. Harper.

- Aye, sir.

Steady, now, steady.

Steady it is, sir.

- Next stop, New Orleans.

- Nothing can stop us now.

- Hard to port! Hard to port!

- What's port?

- To the left!

- No, it's right!

To the right then.

Just pull it,Joe. Pull it.!

Come on,Joe.! Pull.!

[ Boys Yelling ]

[ Groans ]

All right. Tom, Tom.

Tom! Tom!

Tom.!

[ Gagging ]

[ Coughing ]

[Joe, Ben ]

Tom.! Tom.!

- You all right, Tom?

- Yeah, yeah. Of course I'm all right.

If it hadn't been for... whoever it was,

you'd have been a goner.

- Town?

- Town. Come on.

Bye, Tom.

[ Grunting ]

[ Thumping ]

[ Sighs ]

Mornin', everybody. What's for breakfast?

Well, you can start...

with this.

Eeow.

Couldn't I just have

some scrambled eggs?

Tom, I have a notion

to skin you alive.

Sneaking out 'til all hours!

Worrying a body to death!

Yeah. Shall I get

the switch?

I swore to your mama, my own sister,

on her deathbed that I would raise you proper.

- And you're doin' a fine job.

- No.

I know I am not doing

my duty by you.

- I'll get the switch.

- No!

I'll just be obliged

to make you work tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

Couldn't I just take a whippin'?

I have got to do something,

and I ain't got the heart to hit you.

Now sit.

[ Chickens Clucking ]

[ Boy ]

# Toot, toot #

# Toot, toot #

# Toot, toot #

# Toot, toot #

- ## [ Whistling ]

- #Toot, toot #

## [ Whistling Continues ]

Are you feeling okay, Tom?

Hi, Billy. I was havin' so much fun,

didn't even hear you comin'.

- Fun?

- Whitewashin' this here fence.

Nah. That ain't fun.

That's work.

Billy, if this was work,

would I be doin' it?

Ain't every day a boy gets

to whitewash a fence.

- Say, Tom?

- Hmm?

Let me whitewash a little?

Aunt Polly's awful particular

about this fence.

Just a little.

I'd like to help you out, Bill.

Honest Injun.

But if you were to tackle this here fence,

and anything was to happen to it--

I'll be real careful.

What'll you give me?

Uhh--

Oop! Oooh!

[ Groans, Coughs ]

Huck.!

You're back! Where'd you go?

Where've you been?

Well, I'm a traveler.

I go lots of places.

Go upriver, downriver.

No place particular.

I'm bound to pass

through here sometime.

You're the one who pulled me out

the other night.

I felt like a swim.

Come on.

I'll show you my place.

So how long

you been livin' here, Huck?

About a month.

- A month, huh?

- Uh-huh.

Well?

Whoa!

Last week, Aunt Polly whupped me for swipin'

a pie that was coolin' on the windowsill.

But it wasn't me.

Figured it was Sid.

- He wanted it, but I beat him to it.

- I oughta punch you in the nose.

You're welcome to try.

Maybe later.

So, when you're not stealin' food

and savin' folks from drownin'...

- what do you do all day?

- Whatever I want.

Sure are lucky.

Yep. I'm a free man.

Go wherever I want when I wanna go there,

do whatever I want when I want to do it.

It's as simple as that.

[ Snaps Fingers ]

It's good to see ya.

What's that for?

It's what friends do.

We friends?

It's up to you.

If your Aunt Polly

catches you and me...

she'll whup you

from here to St. Louis.

This has nothin' to do with her.

We was friends before. Don't you remember?

Yeah, I guess we were.

Now we're friends again.

Yeah, I guess we are.

[ Man ]

We won't do it again, will we?

- Will we? I can't hear you.

- Uh-uh.

Thomas Sawyer!

Sorry I'm late for school,

Mr. Dobbins.

Well, what's your excuse

this time?

I stopped to talk

with Huckleberry Finn.

[ Class Gasping ]

Thomas Sawyer!

That is the most

astounding confession...

I have ever had

to listen to.

- Yes, sir.

- You are not unaware...

that it is forbidden

to converse with that...

idle wastrel?

No, sir.

I-I mean, yes, sir.

- You know, of course,

that I shall have to punish you.

- Oh, no.

No, Mr. Dobbins, please.

You wouldn't make me sit with the girls.

[ Students Giggling ]

Once again,

Thomas Sawyer...

you have outsmarted yourself.

[ Chuckling ]

[ Giggling ]

Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh.

Grade seven's green book.

[ Moans ]

"A Missouri Maiden's Farewell

to Alabama. '"

"Alabama, good-bye.

I love thee well.

""For yet, for a while

do I leave thee now.

""Sad? Yes.

""Sad thoughts of thee

my heart doth swell...

""and burning recollections

from my brow.

""For I have wandered through...

""thy flowery woods.

""Have roamed and read here

Tallapoosa's stream.

Have listened

to Tallahassee's--'"

- [ Bell Ringing ]

- [ Mr. Dobbins ] Who belongs to this peach?

Becky Thatcher,

do you belong to this peach?

You will not abandon unconsumed food

in my school. Do you hear?

- Whoa!

- [ Water Splashes ]

Whew!

Hello, Huck.

Hello, yourself,

and see how you like it.

Whatcha doin' here?

Lookin' for jackasses.

Under a bridge?

- I found one, didn't I? [ Laughing ]

- [ Laughing ]

You gonna let her

do that to you?

It's 'cause she likes me.

- She pushes you off a bridge

'cause she likes you?

- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

I think

you're both crazy.

Hey, Huck, what you got

in the sack?

A dead cat.

Wagon run over him.

Guts come out both ends.

[ Coughs ]

What's a dead cat good for?

To cure warts with.

I got one.

How's it work?

You take your dead cat to the graveyard

on the day somebody wicked's been buried.

When the devil comes,

you heave your dead cat at him and say...

""Devil follow corpse.

Cat follow devil.

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