Summary (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)  Huckleberry Finn and Tom
Sawyer had found a box of gold in a robber’s cave. Later, after
Judge Thatcher takes the money and invests it for the boys, each
receives the huge allowance of one dollar a day. The Widow
Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, take Huck home with them to
try to reform him. At first, Huck cannot stand living in a tidy
house where smoking and swearing are forbidden. Worse, he has to
go to school and learn how to read. He does, however, manage to
drag himself to school almost every day, except for the times
when he sneaks off for a smoke in the woods or goes fishing on
the Mississippi River.  Life is beginning to become bearable to
him when one day he notices a boot print in the snow. Examining
it closely, he realizes that it belongs to his worthless father,
whom he has not seen for more than a year. Knowing that his
father will be looking for him when he learns about the money,
Huck rushes to Judge Thatcher and persuades him to take the
fortune for h