way. The local farmers follow them. Huck, Jim, and Tom manage to escape, but Tom gets shot in the leg by a farmer. At this point Aunt Polly appears, having traveled all the way down the river. She realized there was something wrong when her sister wrote her that both Tom and Sid had arrived. Aunt Polly tells them that Jim is indeed a free man, because the Widow passed away and freed him in her will. Jim then tells Huck to stop worrying about his Pa. He reveals to Huck that the dead man on the floating house was in fact Huck's Pa. Huck then concludes the novel by stating that he would never have undertaken the book had he known it would take so long to write it. ...
