Death—the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose
peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure—the rich and
the poor—the loved and the unloved.
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Footnote 1:
Through an exchange of clothing with the little prince Tom Canty
suddenly found himself royalty, and upon the death of Henry VIII is
now king.
Footnote 2:
Miles Hendon, who has taken the real prince—now a wanderer—under his
protection. In the course of their adventures the two have landed in
prison.
Footnote 3:
Nigger Jim is a runaway slave to whom Huck affords protection.
Footnote 4:
Huck and Nigger Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on their raft have
been struck by a steamboat. Jim has disappeared but Huck, making his
way to shore, has been taken in by Col. Grangerford, whose family is
in bitter feud with the Shepherdsons.
Edmund Clarence Stedman declared this chapter of Huck Finn’s
adventures to be “as dramatic and powerful an episode as I know in
modern literature.”
Footnote 5:
Buck Grangerford, a boy of about Huck’s age.
Footnote 6:
On his arrival at the Grangerford home Huck had given his name as
George Jackson.
Footnote 7:
The Yankee and his captor have arrived at Camelot and are in King
Arthur’s castle.
Footnote 8:
The Yankee with the maid, Alisande, a great talker, is on the way to
rescue the imprisoned princesses.
Footnote 9:
The King and the Yankee travelling in disguise have fallen into the
clutches of a slave-dealer.