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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1844-the Mississippi River, North America. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly in St Petersburg, Missouri. Tom and his friend, Huckleberry Finn, are always in trouble. One night, Tom and Huckleberry see a fight between Injun Joe, the Doctor and Muff Potter. Bravo! Readers Level 6 This graded series of fiction and non-fiction stories provides a choice of enjoyable reading material for young learners of English. HEINEMANN ELT ISBN 978-1-4050-6563-4

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer1844-the Mississippi River, North America.

Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly in St

Petersburg, Missouri.

Tom and his friend, Huckleberry Finn, are always

in trouble.

One night, Tom and Huckleberry see a fight

between Injun Joe, the Doctor and Muff Potter.

Bravo! ReadersLevel 6

This graded series of fiction and non-fiction stories provides a choice of enjoyable reading material for young learners of English.

HEINEMANN ELT

ISBN 978-1-4050-6563-4

A note about this storyThe story of this famous American novel takes place in the USA

1844. Some of it takes place in the town of St Petersburg, on the

Mississippi River. Some of it takes place in some caves near the

town. The real name of the town called St Petersburg in this

story is Hannibal. Hannibal is in the state of Missouri.

The real name of the writer of this story was Samuel Langhorne

Clemens. When he wrote his novels and stories, he used the

name Mark Twain. He lived in Hannibal for many years. He was

born in 1835 and he died in 1910.

Picture dictionary

a shovel a barrow a coffin

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People in this story

Huckleberry Finn Aunt Polly

The stranger Judge Thatcher

Becky Thatcher Injun Joe Muff Potter

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1. 'Look behind you!''Tom!'

There was no reply.

'Tom!' |

There was still no reply.

'Where is he?' said Aunt Polly. But she was speaking to

herself. She went to the door of the kitchen and looked out

into the garden. 'TOM!' she shouted. But Tom wasn’t in the

garden.

Then Aunt Polly heard a noise in the kitchen. The noise came

from somewhere behind her. She turned round and she saw

the boy. He was coming out of her big food cupboard. He

started to run towards the door. But Aunt Polly grabbed his

jacket, and he stopped.

'Why were you in the food cupboard, Tom?' Aunt Polly asked

the boy. Then she saw Tom's mouth. His lips were very red.

'You were eating my fruit!' Aunt Polly said. 'Oh, Tom!

You are a bad boy!'

The old lady lifted her hand. 'Tom Sawyer, I'm going to

punish you,' she said.

'Look behind you. Aunt Polly!' said Tom.

Aunt Polly let go of the boy's jacket and turned round

quickly. Tom ran away. He ran into the garden and he climbed

over the fence. Then he was gone!

'Tom Sawyer!' said Aunt Polly. Then she laughed. 'He always

plays tricks on me,' she said to herself. 'And I never learn!'

She thought about the boy and his difficult life.

The year was 1844 and Tom was eleven years old. His

parents were dead. Aunt Polly - Tom's father's sister -took

care of him. Tom lived with her in her house in St Petersburg,

in the state of Missouri. Tom was not a clean and tidy boy. He

didn't help Aunt Polly with the housework. He often behaved

badly. But the old lady loved him very much. She loved him,

but she worried about him too.

'He must behave better,' she said to herself. 'He stole my

fruit, so I must punish him. He must do some work for me.

Tomorrow is Saturday. He won't be at school on Saturday.

Tomorrow, Tom will paint the garden fence.'

2. The fenceIt was Saturday morning, so Tom was not at school. But he had

to work. He had to paint the fence - the long fence round the

garden of Aunt Polly's house.

Tom had a big bucket, full of paint. He had a paintbrush with

a long handle. He looked at the fence.

'I don't want to paint this fence,' he thought. 'I want to go

fishing and I want to go swimming. I want to play with my

friends. When they see me painting this fence, my friends will

laugh at me. But I have to do it, because Aunt Polly is angry

with me.'

Tom started to paint.

After an hour, Tom was tired. He looked sadly at the big bucket.

There was still a lot of paint in it. And there was still a lot of

unpainted fence. Suddenly he had an idea. He smiled, then he

started painting again.

Soon he saw one of his friends - Ben Rogers. Ben was walking

towards him. Ben was making strange noises.

'This morning, I'm a steamboat,' said Ben. 'Sssh! Sssh!'

Ben was making the sound of a steamboat's engine. 'Sssh! Sssh!

Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling.' Now he was making the sound of a

steamboat's bell.

This morning, Ben Rogers was a steamboat on the Mississippi

River. But he was also a boy holding an apple.

It was a large red apple. It was a good apple!

'I'm going swimming,' Ben said. 'But you have to work.' He

laughed.

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'I'm not working,' said Tom. 'This isn't work!'

'It isn't work? Do you like painting that fence?' asked

Ben. He was surprised.

'Yes,' said Tom. 'It's fun!' He continued painting.

Ben watched Tom. Tom painted for a while. Then he

stopped and looked at the fence for a minute. Then he

started painting again. He smiled happily.

After a while, Ben spoke again.

'Let me paint the fence, Tom,' he said.

'No,' Tom replied. 'It's a difficult job. It's very difficult to

paint a fence.'

Ben wasn't happy. Tom liked painting the fence, so Ben

wanted to paint it too.

'Tom, please let me paint it,' he said. 'I'll give you some of

my apple.'

Tom stopped painting and thought for a minute.

'No,' he said. Then he smiled and started painting again. 'I'll

give you all of my apple,' Ben said.

Tom thought again. 'All right,' he said.

So Tom sat down on the ground and started to eat Ben's

apple. And Ben started to paint the fence.

After an hour, Ben was tired. He gave the bucket and the

paintbrush back to Tom. Then he walked away, towards the

river.

'Sssh! Sssh! Ting-a-ling!' he said. He was a steamboat again.

A moment later, Tom saw another friend coming towards

him. This boy's name was Billy Fisher. Billy was holding a kite.

'Hello Tom,' Billy said. 'Ben Rogers was painting your fence.

Please let me paint it too.'

'No,' Tom replied. 'Lots of boys want to paint this fence. But

it's very difficult to paint a fence.'

'Oh!' said Billy. He didn't say anything else.

'Ben gave me his apple,' Tom said. 'Then he painted the

fence.'

Billy thought for a while.

'I'll give you my kite,' he said.

'All right,' said Tom.

So Tom sat down again and Billy started to paint the fence.

The morning passed. Lots of friends came and went. The

fence was painted twice. By one o'clock, Tom had a kite, a

cat and a long piece of rope. He had a cake, some glass balls

and a metal door-handle. He was happy.

'The fence is finished,' he told Aunt Polly.

Aunt Polly was surprised but she was pleased.

'You're a good boy, Tom,' she said.

3. The girl with yellow hairOne afternoon, Tom was walking past Jeff Thatcher's house.

Jeff was the same age as Tom, but he wasn't Tom's friend.

Jeff's father was a lawyer in the town. He was an important

man.

Tom wasn't looking for Jeff and he didn't see Jeff. But he saw

a girl. She was in the garden of Jeff's house. She had yellow

hair and blue eyes. She was beautiful!

Suddenly, Tom was in love! He was in love with the girl with

yellow hair and blue eyes.

Tom looked at her and she looked at him. He didn't speak.

She didn't speak.

Tom performed some clever tricks. He stood on his head. He

walked along the top of the garden fence.

The girl still didn't speak, but she smiled at Tom. Then she

turned and went into the house.

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Tom was very happy. 'She smiled at me!' he said to himself. He

ran home, and he thought about the girl for the rest of the day.

That night, Tom went back to Jeff Thatcher's house. He stood in

the street near the house. He looked at the house for an hour,

but he didn't see the girl.

Then he had an idea. He climbed over the garden fence and

stood underneath a window. He wanted to call to the girl, but

he didn't know her name. So he made a noise -the noise of a

cat.

'MI-AOW! MI-AOW!' called Tom. 'MI-AOW!'

Suddenly, someone opened the window above him and threw

some water over his head. Then Tom heard the window closing.

He quickly climbed over the fence and picked up a stone from

the street. He threw the stone at the window. He heard the

sound of glass breaking and he started to run.

Tom arrived late at school the next morning. The other children

were already in the classroom. Tom went into the room and he

had a surprise. The girl with yellow hair was sitting there.

Tom sat down next to her.

'Hello,' he said. 'I'm Tom Sawyer. Who are you?'

'My name is Becky Thatcher,' the girl replied. 'Jeff Thatcher is

my cousin. My father is a judge. We came here last week. We're

going to live in St Petersburg, and my father is going to be the

town's judge.'

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Tom knew about the new judge. He was a very important

man. He was a more important man than Jeff's father.

Tom wanted Becky to like him. He wanted to please her, so

he drew a picture on a piece of paper. He drew a picture of

a house.

'That's good,' said Becky. 'Now draw a man.'

Tom drew a picture of a man in front of the house. The man

was bigger than the house. It wasn't a very good picture,

but Becky liked it.

'That's good too, Tom,' she said. 'Now draw me.'

Tom took a new piece of paper and he drew a picture. Was

it a good picture of Becky? No it wasn't, but she still liked it.

'Will you teach me to draw, Tom?' she asked.

'I'll teach you at lunchtime,' Tom replied. Then he wrote I

LIKE YOU on the picture of Becky.

'You're a bad boy, Tom,' Becky said. And she smiled at him.

4. Huckleberry FinnTom had a special friend in St Petersburg. His name was

Huckleberry Finn. 'Huckleberry' is a long name, so most

people called the boy 'Huck'. He was a bit older than Tom.

Every day, Aunt Polly told Tom to be good. Tom's friends'

mothers told their sons to be good every day too. But

nobody told Huck to be good. Huck didn't live with anybody.

He had no brothers or sisters. His mother was dead and his

father lived a long way from St Petersburg.

Mr Finn was a bad man. He didn't like Huck and Huck didn't

like him!

So Huck was a happy boy. Nobody told him to be good.

In fine weather, he slept outside, by the river. In bad weather,

he slept inside, in a farmer's barn. He wore old, dirty clothes

and he didn't wear any shoes. But the best thing of all was

this - he didn't ever go to school!

Most of the boys in St Petersburg liked Huck. He had a

good life.

One Monday morning, Tom was walking to school. He met

Huck in the lane. Tom wasn't happy because he didn't like

Monday mornings. Huck was very happy. He was happy

because he wasn't going to school. He was happy because

he had a dead cat. He was carrying the cat by its legs.

The two boys talked as they walked along the lane. Huck

gave Tom news about some of their friends.

But something was worrying Tom.

'Why have you got a dead cat, Huck?' he asked.

'A dead cat can cure warts,' Huck replied.

Tom looked at Huck's hands and he looked at his own hands.

'We've both got warts,' Tom said. He pointed at the little hard

lumps on Huck's fingers. 'But how can a dead cat cure them?'

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'You have to wait for the death of a bad man,' Huck replied.

'When a bad man dies, people take his body to a graveyard.

They bury his body in the ground. That night, you have to

take your dead cat to the graveyard, at midnight.'

'Why?' asked Tom.

'Ghosts come to the graveyard at midnight,' Huck continued.

'They come and they take the dead man's spirit away. The

cat's spirit follows the spirit of the dead man. And the warts

follow the spirit of the cat. The cat cures your warts.

Everybody knows that!'

Tom didn't know that. But he was very interested in Huck's

news.

'Let's go to the graveyard tonight, Huck,' he said. 'Hoss

Williams will be buried today. Hoss was a very bad man, so

the ghosts will come for him.'

'All right,' said Huck. 'Where shall we meet?'

'Come to my house at eleven o'clock,' Tom replied. 'Make a

noise outside my window. Make the noise of a cat. I'll be

awake and I'll hear you.'

'All right,' said Huck.

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5. The graveyardTom went to bed at half past nine that night. He lay in bed

quietly, but he didn't sleep. The house was dark but it wasn't

very quiet. Tom heard noises. Aunt Polly was snoring loudly in

her bed. A dog was barking in the street outside. Tom waited

and waited.

At eleven o'clock, Tom heard the noise of a cat outside his

window. MI-AOW! MI-AOW! But it wasn't really a cat out there

- it was Huckleberry Finn!

Tom dressed quickly and quietly. He climbed out of his window

and he jumped down to the ground. Huck was waiting in the

garden. He was carrying his dead cat.

At half past eleven, Tom and Huck were standing in the St

Petersburg graveyard. There was a wooden fence around the

graveyard. A wooden board stood next to each grave. There

was a person's name on each of these boards.

Tom and Huck quickly found the grave of Hoss Williams and

they found a hiding-place near it. They hid behind three big

trees. It was very dark and very quiet in the graveyard. Then

suddenly, they heard the noise of an owl, WHO-OOO! WHO-

OOO!

'Huck, are you frightened?' Tom asked his friend.

'Yes,' said Huck. 'I don't like ghosts.'

Then they heard another noise - a different noise.

'What was that?' Tom said. He grabbed Huck's arm and held it

tightly.

'Oh, Tom,' said Huck. 'They're coming! The ghosts are coming!'

'Don't be frightened,' Tom said. 'Don't move. They won't see

us behind these trees. Look, Huck, there's a light!'

There were three ghosts. Two of them had lamps!

'We must run away, Tom,' Huck said.

'Be quiet!' Tom replied. 'They're not ghosts - they're ordinary

men. I can hear Muff Potter's voice. And I can hear another

voice. I can hear Injun Joe's voice.'

'Injun Joe!' said Huck. 'Why are those men here, Tom?'

The three men walked towards the grave of Hoss Williams. The

first man was carrying a lamp. Who was it? Tom didn't know.

Behind that man was Injun Joe, with another lamp. He was also

carrying two shovels and a rope. The third man was Muff

Potter. Muff was pushing a barrow.

'Here it is,' said the first man. 'This is the grave.'

He stopped next to Hoss Williams's grave and he held his

lamp above his head. Huck and Tom saw the face of a young

man. Tom knew who the man was.

'It's Doctor Robinson,' said Tom quietly.

'Dig quickly!' the doctor said to the others.

Injun Joe and Muff Potter started digging the earth. They

dug away the earth from the grave and they uncovered Hoss's

wooden coffin. They lifted the coffin out of the hole. Then they

pulled the lid from the coffin.

'They're going to take Hoss's body away, Huck,' Tom said

quietly. 'The doctor wants it. He's going to study it. He's going

to cut it up!'

Injun Joe and Muff Potter lifted the body out of the coffin.

They wrapped a big piece of cloth around the body and they

put it on their barrow. Then they tied the body to the barrow

with their rope. The rope was too long, so Muff took a knife

from his pocket. He cut a piece off the rppe. Then he stood

behind Joe, still holding his knife.

'Now we'll take the body to your house, Doctor,' said Joe.

'But first, you must give us five dollars.'

'I've already given you some money,' said Doctor Robinson.

'We want more money,' said Joe. 'You haven't given us enough

money yet.'

'I don't have any more money,' the doctor replied.

'You're a bad man, Doctor,' Joe said. 'Once, I came to your

house and I said I was hungry. You didn't give me any food.

You told me to go away.'

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Suddenly, the doctor said some bad words and he hit

Joe's face.

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6. Written in blood!Tom and Huck ran away from the graveyard. They were very

frightened. Had Injun Joe seen them? Was he running after

them?

Tom and Huck saw an old barn. They ran into the bam and they

hid behind some straw.

'What will happen now?' Tom asked his friend.

'Injun Joe killed Doctor Robinson,' Huck replied. 'Joe is a

murderer. The sheriff will catch Joe and he'll put him in jail.

There will be a trial and after that, Joe will be killed -he'll be

hanged with a rope.'

Tom thought for a minute.

'You and I know about the murder, Huck,' he said. 'But

nobody in the town knows. Maybe Joe will tell lies.

Maybe the sheriff will put Muff in jail, not Joe. Shall we tell the

truth to the sheriff?'

'No, I won't tell him,' said Huck. 'I'm frightened of Injun Joe.

Muff Potter must tell the sheriff the truth.'

Tom thought for another minute. Then he spoke again. 'Muff

doesn't know the truth, Huck,' he said. 'He didn't see the

murder.'

'What do you mean, Tom?' asked Huck.

'Doctor Robinson hit Muff with the wooden board from

Hoss's grave,' Tom replied. 'Muff was on the ground. He

didn't see anything.'

'Tom, we mustn't tell anybody about this,' Huck said.

'We could tell the sheriff - that's true. But Injun Joe might

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murder us. So we won't tell anybody.

'All right, Huck. Let's swear that,' Tom replied.

'Yes, we’ll write our promise in blood,' said Huck.

Tom found a small flat piece of wood. Then he took a

pencil from his pocket and he wrote a sentence on the

piece of wood.

Tom had a small knife. He cut his finger with it and some

blood came from the cut. Then Tom wrote 'TS' on the

wood with his blood.

Next Huck cut his finger too. He couldn't read or write,

because he didn't go to school. But Tom helped him to

write 'HF' with his blood.

'Our promise is written in blood,' said Tom. 'We can't tell

anybody about the murder. Now let's leave this place. I

want to go home now.'

The next day was Tuesday. Tom woke late and he dressed

quickly. Aunt Polly was eating her breakfast in the kitchen.

She saw Tom and she started to cry.

'You're a bad boy, Tom,' she said. 'You went out last night.

Why did you do that? I worry about you. But you don't care

about me.'

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Then Tom started to cry too. He loved his aunt and he

didn't want her to be unhappy.

'I won't go out at night again. Aunt Polly,' he said. 'I'm very

sorry.'

Soon, all the people of St Petersburg were talking about the

death of Dr Robinson. Had Muff Potter murdered him? On

Tuesday morning, somebody found Muff in a barn. He was ill.

Somebody had found Muff's knife next to the doctor's body.

There was blood on the knife.

Injun Joe talked to the sheriff. 'Muff killed the doctor,'

Joe said. 'I tried to stop him.'

So the sheriff put Muff in jail. There was going to be a trial - a

trial for murder.

The days passed. Tom Sawyer was very unhappy. He didn't

speak to his friends at school. He didn't speak to Becky

Thatcher. He didn't speak to Aunt Polly. He only spoke to one

person - Huckleberry Finn.

The two boys went to the jail every day. They went early in the

mornings. They gave Muff food and fruit.

'You're good boys,' Muff told them one morning. 'Everybody

else has forgotten me, but you two boys haven't forgotten

me.'

'Muff isn't a bad man,' Huck said as he and Tom left the jail.

'He didn't kill anyone.'

'You're right,' Huck replied. 'But he's going to be hanged - I'm

sure of that. It isn't right!'

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7. The trialA few days later. Muff Potter's trial began. Judge Thatcher,

Becky's father, was the judge at the trial. Tom and Huck waited

outside the town's courtroom all day. They wanted to find out

about the trial, because they were worried about Muff. But

that day, the boys didn't get any news. They waited outside

the courtroom on the second day of the trial too. When

people came out of the courtroom, Tom and Huck listened to

them talking.

'Judge Thatcher believed Injun Joe's story.'

'Muff Potter is guilty - he killed the doctor.'

'Muff Potter is going to be hanged.'

Tom and Huck heard people saying all these things.

Tom got home very late that night. Where did he go during

the evening? He didn't tell anybody about that. But he was

very excited and he couldn't sleep.

On the third day of the trial, Tom and Huck sat inside the

courtroom. They listened to the trial. Injun Joe was listening

too. He looked at Muff Potter but he didn't say anything to

him. Muff was very frightened.

Judge Thatcher listened to some witnesses. Muff Potter's

lawyer listened too. Each witness walked to the front of the

courtroom and told his story.

'I was near the river,' said the first witness. 'I saw Muff Potter

there. He was washing his hands in the water.

There was blood on his hands. He saw me and he ran away.'

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'I have no questions for this witness,' said Muff's lawyer.

'I found a knife in the graveyard,' said the next witness. 'The

knife was near the doctor's body.'

Judge Thatcher held up a knife. 'Is this the knife?' he asked

the witness.

'Yes,' the witness replied.

'I have no questions for this witness,' said Muff's lawyer. 'The

knife belongs to Muff Potter,' said the third witness. 'I've seen

him with it many times.'

'I have no questions,' said Muff's lawyer.

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Lots of people in St Petersburg liked Muff Potter. And

many of these people were sitting in the courtroom. They

were getting angry. Why didn't Muff's lawyer ask these

witnesses some questions. Did he want Muff to die?

Then Muff's lawyer stood up and spoke to the judge.

'Judge Thatcher,' the lawyer said, 'at the beginning of this

trial, you asked Mr Potter to tell the truth. You asked him to

say he was Guilty or Not Guilty of the murder. He told you

he was Guilty. But he was wrong.'

Suddenly there was a noise in the courtroom. Everyone

looked at Injun Joe. He was angry.

'The truth is this - Mr Potter doesn't know about the

murder,' the lawyer continued. 'He was dizzy at the time of

the murder and he can't remember it. But there is another

witness to the murder. His name is Tom Sawyer and he

wants to tell you his story now.'

Tom walked to the front of the room. Everybody was

looking at him.

'Tom Sawyer, where were you at midnight on the

seventeenth of July?' the lawyer asked.

Tom was very frightened. Injun Joe was looking at him and

Joe wasn't happy.

'I was in the graveyard,' Tom said quietly.

'Speak louder please, Tom,' the judge said. 'Don't be

frightened.'

'I was in the graveyard,' Tom said loudly.

Then Injun Joe smiled. It was a terrible smile!

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'Were you near Hoss Williams's grave?' the lawyer asked.

'Yes, sir,' Tom replied.

'Were you hiding?' asked the lawyer.

'Yes, I was hiding behind some trees,' Tom said.

'Was anybody there with you?'

Now Tom was silent for a moment. He was worried.

'Yes, sir,' he said at last. 'But I —'

'You don't need to tell us his name now, Tom,' the lawyer

said. 'I'll speak to your friend. Did you have anything with

you?'

'We had a dead cat, sir,' Tom replied. Almost everybody in

the courtroom laughed. But Injun Joe didn't laugh!

'We can show you the body of this cat, sir,' the lawyer told

the judge.

Then the lawyer spoke to Tom again.

'What did you see in the graveyard, Tom?' he asked. 'Please

tell the judge about it.'

Tom started to tell his story. Everybody listened to him.

Finally, he said, 'the doctor hit Muff Potter with the piece of

wood. Then Muff Potter fell on the ground. And Injun Joe

killed the doctor with Muff's knife.'

Suddenly, Injun Joe jumped up. He ran to a window. Some

people tried to stop him, but he broke the glass. CRASH!

Then he jumped through the window and he ran away.

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8. Buried TreasureAfter Muff Potter's trial, everybody in the town was talking

about Tom. In the evening, Tom went to Judge Thatcher's

house.

'You are a fine young man,' the Judge told him. 'You were

frightened, but you told the truth. You were very brave.' Becky

smiled at Tom.

'It's my birthday on Saturday,' she said. 'I'm going to have a

picnic at McDougal's Caves. All my friends are going to come.

Will you come too, Tom?'

'Oh, yes,' he replied. 'Thank you.' He was very happy.

The next morning, Tom met Huck near his house.

'I want to do something exciting,' Huck said.

'Let's search for some buried treasure,' Tom replied. 'Buried

treasure is very exciting.'

'All right,’ said Huck. 'But where shall we search?'

'Let's search in the Haunted House,' said Tom.

There was an old house near the town. All the boys in St

Petersburg called this place the Haunted House. People said

there were ghosts there. Nobody else lived there. The house

was empty and its windows were broken. There were holes in

the roof. The fence was broken and the garden was very

untidy.

'That's a good idea,' said Huck. 'We'll go there when you

come out of school.'

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So that afternoon, Tom and Huck took two shovels and they

went to the old house.

The boys were a little frightened, because they didn't like

thinking about ghosts. But the weather was bright and sunny.

'Ghosts don't come out in the daylight,' Tom said.

The two boys entered the old house through a broken door.

They walked through the empty rooms.

'Let's go upstairs,' Huck said.

They left their shovels by the door and they climbed the old,

broken stairs. They walked through more empty rooms. Then

they went back to the stairs. But suddenly they heard a noise

below them.

'Listen!' said Tom. 'There are ghosts downstairs.'

'Let's hide,' said Huck.

Very quietly, the boys went into one of the upstairs rooms.

There were two big holes in the floor. Tom and Huck lay on

the floor and looked down through the holes. Two men

entered the room below them.

One of the men was a stranger. But the other man was Injun

Joe! The two men were arguing.

'I won't do it, Joe!' the stranger said. 'The job is too

dangerous!'

'It isn't dangerous,' Joe replied. 'We'll do it soon, then we'll go

to Texas.'

'All right. But I want some of the money now,' said the

stranger. 'How much money is there in the bag?'

'Six hundred and fifty dollars,' Joe replied.

Six hundred and fifty dollars! Huck and Tom looked at each

other. That was a lot of money! Maybe it was buried treasure!

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Injun Joe moved a stone in the floor. Below it was a hole and

Joe pulled a bag out of this hole. He took some money from

the bag and gave it to the stranger.

'I'll bury the bag again,' said Joe. 'I'll put it in a different place,

so nobody can find it.'

He started to dig in the floor with a big knife. But suddenly

there was a noise and Joe stopped digging. His knife had hit

something under the floor.

Then Joe saw the boys' shovels.

'Give me one of those,' he said to the stranger.

Joe used the shovel and he dug in the floor again. After five

minutes, he lifted an old box out of the hole. He opened the

box and put his hand inside it. When he took his hand out, it

was full of gold coins!

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The two boys were very excited. There really was buried

treasure in the Haunted House!

'There are thousands of dollars in that box,' the stranger said

to Joe. 'Somebody stole it from a bank and they buried the

money here. But we can take it. We don't have to do that

other job now.'

'Oh yes, we do have to do it,' Joe replied angrily. 'I want

revenge. I need your help, so don't argue with me. Go away

now. I'll come soon and I'll find you.'

'What are we going to do with this?' said the stranger pointing

at the box.

'I'll take it to the other place,' Joe said. 'It isn't safe here. Those

shovels aren't ours. Someone else has been here.'

Soon, the two men left the house.

'Joe has taken the buried treasure,' Huck said sadly. 'Where

will he bury it now?'

'I don't know,' Tom replied. 'But I don't want to follow those

two men. I don't want to meet Injun Joe again. He said he

wanted revenge, Huck. I think he wants to kill me!'

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9. The PicnicIt was Saturday. It was the day of Becky Thatcher's picnic at

McDougal's Caves. Most of the children from the town were

going to the picnic. But nobody asked Huckleberry Finn to go.

Nobody's parents wanted him to go.

Tom was happy. He was only thinking about the picnic. He

forgot about Injun Joe.

At eleven o'clock, everyone got onto an old steamboat.

Everyone carried baskets of food and bottles of drink. Everyone

was laughing and singing.

They were going to travel down the river on the steamboat

for a few miles. Then they were going to walk to the caves.

There were no adults on the boat that day. The older

children were taking care of the younger ones.

The steamboat took the children to a beach, three miles

south of the town. There, they opened the baskets of food and

they ate their lunch. After that, they rested quietly for a while.

Then somebody asked a question - 'Who wants to go to the

caves now?'

'Me!'

'Me!'

'Me!'

'Me!'

'Me too!'

'And me!'

Everybody wanted to go into the caves.

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Everyone got candles and matches from their baskets. Then

they ran up the little hill behind the beach.

The entrance to McDougal's Caves was in the side of this

little hill. A long time before, somebody put a big, strong

wooden door in this entrance. One of the older boys opened

this door carefully and everyone went inside. They all looked

back for a moment at the green trees and the sunshine

behind them. Then they looked at the darkness in front of

them. The caves were a cold, dark, frightening place!

Somebody lit a candle. There was light in the caves! But

someone else blew on the flame, and then there was

darkness again. A game started. People lit candles and other

people blew them out. Everyone laughed and shouted and

ran round in circles.

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Soon the children stopped playing this game and they

walked further into the caves. They were all carrying bright

candles now and they walked in a long line. They walked in a

line because the main path was narrow. But there were other

paths to the left and to the right. Some of these were

narrower than the main path!

There were many paths in McDougal's caves. Some of them

led away from the main path and then led back to it. Some

led to a wall of rock and finished there. Some paths led out

of one large cave and into another. A few paths went further

and further into the hill. Many of the children had been here

before. But nobody knew all the paths in these caves.

'Listen to me!' one of the older boys shouted. 'I'm going to

make a speech! The steamboat's bell will ring at seven

o'clock. We have to start our journey back to the town at

that time. So everyone must come to the entrance by seven

o'clock. Do you all understand?'

All the children called out, 'Yes!'

After this speech, the children didn't stay together. Some

went one way and some went another way. Tom and Becky

took some food and some candles. They went together down

one of the very narrow paths. This path led further into the hill.

'Look, Becky,' Tom said. 'You can write your name on the

wall. Use the smoke from your candle.'

They moved their candles from side to side, near the wall.

Then they wrote their names in the black soot from the candle

smoke.

After this, they walked on further.

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After a few minutes, they came to a little waterfall. Water

was falling from a little hole in the wall of rock.

It was running away down a larger hole in the path.

'It's beautiful, Tom,' said Becky.

'There's a path behind the waterfall,' Tom said. 'It leads

downwards. Let's walk along that path. Make a mark on the

wall with your candle smoke. We'll come back to the same

place later and we'll see the mark.'

So Becky made a mark on the wall. Then the two young

people went behind the waterfall and down the path. After

a while they came to a very large cave.

They walked round this big cave and they walked along

another path. And soon they came to another large cave

and another waterfall. Here the water fell into a small lake.

All the rocks here were white.

'What a beautiful white lake, Tom!' said Becky.

Then Tom heard a noise and he looked up at the roof of the

cave. Bats! There were hundreds of small black bats flying

above them. The bats had seen the light from their candles. The

bats were squeaking. They were flapping their wings. Tom and

Becky ran!

The bats flew after them! Becky screamed and dropped her

candle.

Tom and Becky ran and ran. At last they escaped from the bats.

They stopped next to a big, dark lake.

They rested for a few minutes. It was very quiet.

'I can't hear any voices,' Becky said. 'Where are the other

children?'

'I can't hear them,' Tom said.

'We must go back to the entrance to the caves now,

Tom,' Becky said.

Tom was silent for a few moments. Then he spoke.

'Becky, we're lost!' he said.

10. Lost!'Come on, Becky,' Tom said. 'We must find the path to the

entrance. We'll soon be there. We'll soon find the other

children. Please don't worry.'

The two young people started to walk again. Tom held his

candle high in the air. He walked in front of Becky. 'We'll soon

find the white lake again,' he said.

An hour passed, but they didn't find the lake again. And they

didn't find the bats again.

'Tom, we're really lost,' Becky said sadly. 'We'll die in these

caves.' She started to cry.

'Help!' Tom shouted. 'Please help us! Can anyone hear me?'

'Can anyone hear me? Can anyone hear me?'

This new voice came from the rocks, but it was really Tom's

voice. It was only an echo.

Tom and Becky walked and walked. Becky was still crying, but

Tom put his arm round her shoulders. After that, she felt a little

better.

'We'll get out,' Tom said. 'We won't die here.'

Many hours passed. Sometimes the children sat together and

talked. Sometimes they slept for a while. Sometimes they

walked on, along narrow paths and through big caves. But they

didn't find the entrance.

'How long is it since we came into the caves, Tom?' asked

Becky. 'What day is it now?'

At last they came to a small stream.

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'We have to stop here,' Tom said. He sat down.

'Why do we have to stop?' asked Becky.

'This is our last candle,' Tom replied. 'It's very small now. The

flame will die soon.'

Becky sat down next to Tom.

'Will my father search for us?' she asked. 'Will he find us?' ‘Yes,

Becky, he'll find us,' Tom said.

They sat quietly together. They didn't speak. They looked at

the small piece of candle. Soon, its flame died. They no longer

had any light.

Suddenly Tom spoke.

'Listen, Becky,' he said. 'Listen! There's a noise. Someone is

coming.'

Soon, both of them heard the noise again. They started to

shout. They shouted and shouted.

'Help! Help! Please help us!'

But now the noise was further away.

'Stay here, Becky,' said Tom. 'I won't go far.'

Tom ran towards the noise. In the darkness, he found a path.

After a minute, he turned a corner and he saw a light. It came

from the other side of a big rock, a few feet in front of him.

Then he saw a hand, holding up a candle, above the rock.

'Help!' Tom shouted.

Behind the rock, a man stood up suddenly. It was Injun Joe!

Tom was very frightened. But his shout frightened Joe, and

the murderer ran away.

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Quickly and quietly, Tom returned to Becky. He called to her.

She answered and he walked towards her voice. He didn't want

to frighten her, so he didn't tell her about Injun Joe.

'There wasn't anybody there,' he said. 'I shouted, but nobody

came.'

'Oh, Tom,' said Becky quietly.

They sat by the stream for hours, and at last they fell asleep.

When Tom woke, he was very hungry and very thirsty. Soon,

Becky was awake too.

'We must try to walk again,' Tom said. 'We must try to find

the entrance - or another entrance. I don't want to die here,

and I don't want you to die here.'

They walked slowly and sadly. But after an hour, Tom suddenly

saw another light.

'Look, Becky, look!' he said. Suddenly he was excited.

In front of them, they saw a small, round light. It was white

light and it was coming through a hole in the rock. 'It's daylight,

Tom,’ Becky shouted. 'It's the sun!'

11. Injun Joe's revengeMost of the children in St Petersburg went to the caves that

Saturday, so the town was very quiet. Huck sat by the river and

he waited. In the evening he saw the steamboat returning. Lots

of tired children climbed off the boat. But Huck didn't see Tom.

Where was he?

At eleven o'clock, Huck got up. He walked slowly out of the

town. He was going to one of the nearby farms. He was going

to sleep in a barn there.

Suddenly, Huck saw someone walking in front of him. It was

Injun Joe! Huck followed him quietly.

'Joe is carrying something,' Huck thought. 'He's going to bury

the treasure somewhere.'

After ten minutes, Huck saw someone else. It was the stranger

from the Haunted House. He met Joe outside a house and they

stopped and talked.

'This is Mrs Douglas's house,' Huck thought. 'Are they going to

bury the treasure on her land?’ He listened very carefully.

'There's a light in the house,' Injun Joe said. 'We'll wait here for a

while. She'll go to bed soon. Then we'll do it!'

'No, Joe!' said the stranger. 'It's a bad idea. Let's go away. Let's

go to Texas.'

'We'll wait here!' Joe said again. His voice was angry.

Huck was frightened and worried. Was this Joe's revenge? Was

he going to murder Mrs Douglas?

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'That woman's husband was a judge,' Joe told the other

man. 'And that judge put me in jail. I was going to get my

revenge on him, but he died. Now I'll get my revenge on his

wife! I won't kill her - I don't kill women. But I'll cut her face

and her ears. And you're going to help!'

Huck moved away very quietly. Then he turned and ran back

towards the town. He liked Mrs Douglas - she was a good lady.

Sometimes she gave him food and clothes. Now she was in

danger. He had to get help. Who could help him?

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Huck ran to Judge Thatcher's house and he knocked on the

door.

The judge opened the door.

'Huck Finn,' he said. 'Are you looking for Tom? He isn't here.

Becky hasn't come home yet. Maybe she's staying with a

friend tonight.'

'I'm not looking for Tom,' Huck replied. Then he told the

judge his story.

'Injun Joe!' the judge said. 'I'll tell the sheriff about this. And

I'll take some men to Mrs Douglas's house now.'

A few minutes later. Judge Thatcher and some other men

were running towards Mrs Douglas's house. They were all

holding guns. Huck was very tired, so he didn't follow them.

The judge and the other men didn't catch Injun Joe and the

stranger. But they frightened them and they ran away. Mrs

Douglas was safe. But the next morning, Judge Thatcher had

something else to tell the sheriff. His daughter Becky and Tom

Sawyer were lost. They were lost for ever in McDougal's Caves!

All that day and the next night, Huck slept at the judge's

house. He was ill and unhappy. But on Monday, Mrs Douglas

came and she took him to her house.

'I'll take care of the boy now,' she told the judge.

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12. The rewardTom and Becky were not lost for ever in the caves. On

Wednesday afternoon, they were at home again!

On Friday evening, Tom was telling his story. Aunt Polly,

Becky's parents and lots of their friends were listening.

'At last, we saw daylight coming through a hole,' Tom said.

'We got out through the hole. Bigger people couldn't have got

through it. When we got out, we were near the river. We were

about two miles from the entrance to the caves. Some men came

up the river in a boat. We shouted to them. We were lucky! They

saw us and they brought us back to town. Then we both slept for

two days!'

Two weeks later, Tom was talking to Judge Thatcher. 'Nobody

will ever get lost in those caves again, Tom,' said the judge.

'When you were lost, I fixed a big metal bar across the door. I

thought you and Becky were dead. I didn't want any other

children to die in there. That door will never open again.'

'Oh!' said Tom. Suddenly his face was white.

'Tom, what's wrong?' the judge asked.

'Oh, Judge Thatcher, Injun Joe is in the caves,' Tom said. 'I saw

him there. I think it was on our second day in the caves.' 'I

understand now,' said the judge. 'He went there when we

frightened him outside Mrs Douglas's house. Maybe he took the

box of gold there.'

Judge Thatcher took the sheriff and some other men to

the caves. They took the metal bar away from the door and

they opened it. Inside the door, they found Injun Joe. He

was lying dead on the ground. Near him they found the

box of gold.

'We must give this money to Tom and Huck,' said the

sheriff. 'They are very brave boys. We must give them a

reward.'

After that. Judge Thatcher took care of the boys' money, so

nobody could steal it. Tom visited Becky often. They often

talked about their adventure in McDougal's Caves.

Huck lived for a while with Mrs Douglas. But he didn't

want to stay in St Petersburg for ever. One day, he got into a

small boat and he went south. He travelled down the

Mississippi River. But that is another story!

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