till felt guilty; Jim was Miss Watson's property and had run away. Huck decided he would turn Jim in the next chance he got. When a group of men on a boat came up looking for runaways, Huck realized he could not turn Jim over to them. He told the men that the man in the tent was his father who was stricken with smallpox. The men paddled away in a hurry without checking the cargo.They continued downstream, and one night they heard a steamboat coming close to them through the thick fog. Jim and Huck jumped from the raft to avoid being hurt when the raft was struck, and in the process the two were separated.Huck was taken in by the wealthy Grangerford family. They were a nice, generous family who treated Huck very well. For reasons no one could remember, they were in a feud with another family - the Shepardsons.One day one of the Grangerford's slaves asked Huck to come into the woods to see some snakes. Instead of snakes, he found Jim there waiting for him. That night after Huck and Jim had left, the two feuding families were involved in a fight and the entire Grangerford family was killed.Huck and Jim picked up two men a few days later as they were sailing down the river. One said he was the Duke of Bridgewater, and the other claimed to be the Dauphin of France. Huck knew they were lying, but he wanted to have some fun, so he played along with them.The two men stopped every once in a while at towns along the shore to carry out money-grabbing schemes. At one town, the Dauphin pretended to be the deaf-and-dumb brother of Peter Wilkes who had just recently died. Wilkes' daughters gave the Duke and Dauphin the three thousand dollar inheritance that their father had left for his brother. Mad at all the lying that the men were doing, Huck stole the money and hid it in Peter Wilkes' coffin to later be found by his daughters.The next day the real brother showed up and the Duke and Dauphin were put in jail. As Huck and Jim were g...
