Now, all ready. Step forward, George Jackson. Come along now. Come over here slowly. Come on now. Approach slowly. Push the door open a little bit by yourself—just squeeze in, okay? The dogs were as still as the humans, but they followed a little behind me. When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard them unlocking and unbarring and unbolting. I took one slow step at a time. The dogs were as quiet as the people, but they followed a little behind me. When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard the people inside unlocking, unbarring, and unbolting the doors.
The old gentleman says: There was a candle on the floor. For a few seconds, everyone in the room was looking at me and I was looking at them. There were three big men with guns pointed at me. He came in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one.
He says:. When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.
While I was at it he asked me what my name was, but before I could tell him he started to tell me about a bluejay and a young rabbit he had catched in the woods day before yesterday, and he asked me where Moses was when the candle went out.
Say, how long are you going to stay here? You got to stay always. Do you own a dog? Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that kind of foolishness? Confound these ole britches! Are you all ready? All right. Come along, old hoss. Buck and his ma and all of them smoked cob pipes, except the nigger woman, which was gone, and the two young women. They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talked.
The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down their backs. So they said I could have a home there as long as I wanted it. Then it was most daylight and everybody went to bed, and I went to bed with Buck, and when I waked up in the morning, drat it all, I had forgot what my name was. So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says:. I set it down, private, because somebody might want ME to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it.
It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too. We think not. Oh, and Betsy, their black slave. Buck takes Huck upstairs to get him some dry clothes, and we see that, just like Huck and, we would guess, every other adolescent boy ever, he isn't a big fan of "comb[ing] up on Sundays and all that kind of foolishness" Huck eats a meal together with the family and spins them some great lies about his family in Arkansas.
Everything is copasetic until he wakes up the next morning having forgotten his made-up name. Yet the great Huck is not to be discouraged. He just taunts Buck and bets him he can't spell his Huck's name. Although Buck spells "Jackson" as "Jaxon," but whatevs. One day, Buck tries to shoot a young man named Harney Shepherdson but misses.
Huck asks why Buck wanted to kill Harney, and Buck explains that the Grangerfords are in a feud with a neighboring clan of families, the Shepherdsons. No one can remember how or why the feud started, but in the last year, two people have been killed, including a fourteen-year-old Grangerford. The two families attend church together and hold their rifles between their knees as the minister preaches about brotherly love.
After church one day, Sophia Grangerford has Huck retrieve a copy of the Bible from the pews. Huck finds Jim there, much to his surprise. Jim says that he followed Huck to the shore the night they were wrecked but did not dare call out for fear of being caught.
Some slaves found the raft, but Jim reclaimed it by threatening the slaves and telling them that it belonged to his white master. In the woods, Huck finds Buck and a nineteen-year-old Grangerford in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons.
Both of the Grangerfords are killed. Deeply disturbed, Huck heads for Jim and the raft, and the two shove off downstream. Huck and Jim continue down the river. On one of his solo expeditions in the canoe, Huck comes upon two men on shore fleeing some trouble and begging to be let onto the raft.
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