● Huck hides the fraud’s (king’s and duke’s) money in
Peter’s coffin
○ Did it without thinking, now can't get the money out
● Huck hopes the undertaker takes a peek inside the coffin before it’s sealed.
○ A dog disrupts the funeral and the coffin is sealed without anyone knowing the money is there
○ Huck worries that the king and duke took the money out of the coffin already
○ Makes plans to write to Mary Jane about the money’s whereabouts

● The king later tries to sell off the estate and its slaves
○ In doing so, separates a slave family through sale
● This upsets the Wilk’s girls
○ Huck comforts himself that the frauds will be exposed soon enough
● Huck is confronted on the missing money by the king and duke
○ Huck lies and tells that the Wilk’s slaves took it from his room

● How Lesson is learned: He messed up with the money.
○ Huck hides the money in Peter Wilk’s coffin on an impulse, and then realizes that he had messed up.
● Lesson learned: Be thoughtful and think before you act.
● The evidence is:
○ Huck was trying to be thoughtful by thinking about how sad Mary Jane was when she was crying, and then ended up lying by saying that her family was going to be home soon.
○ He messed up by hiding the money in the coffin and could’ve thought it through better.

● The King and Duke are selling slaves, including Jim
● Huck feels bad for Mary and tells her the truth about her
“uncles”
● He tells Mary a plan that will expose the Duke and King and to keep her and Jim safe
● Huck gives her a note explaining where the money was hidden and that he stole it from her “uncles”
● Huck escapes and runs into Mary’s sister, Susan
● He explains to her that Mary Jane isn’t there because an outbreak of a disease to not raise any alarm

How the lesson is learned: He feels bad for Mary, and lies to her, telling Mary that her mother and sisters will be here in two weeks. She believes it and he feels guilty.
Lesson Learned: Don’t lie just to cover things up.
Evidence : “I had spoke too sudden, and said too much, and was in a close space.”
“...I’m blest if it don’t look to me like the truth is better, and actually safer , than a lie.”

● The real Harvey Wilks shows up with his brother to collect their dead brother’s inheritance.
● People become suspicious of the frauds when they fail to produce the inheritance.
● A lawyer administered a writing test to try and weed out the frauds.
○ Because of Harvey’s brother’s broken arm, the test is inconclusive.
● Harvey puts an end to the confusion by claiming he knows of a tattoo on the dead man’s chest
○ The undertaker denies it

How Lesson is learned: People don’t know who is telling the truth because the frauds told everyone that they were the brothers.
Lesson learned: Be cautious; don’t believe everything you hear. What people say isn’t always reliable.
The evidence is:
Everyone is coming up with accusations against the two brothers.
They are convinced that the frauds are the brothers because they were told that first.
Huck’s development changed by:

“The duke never let on he suspicioned what was up, but went a googooing around, happy and satisfied, like a jug that’s googling out buttermilk” pg.147
Simile ties into Huck’s childish, almost uneducated, style
"I didn't want to set her thinking about her troubles again; and I couldn't seem to get my mouth to tell her what would make her see that corpse laying in the coffin with that bag of money on his stomach" pg.193
Style

6. Why does Huck say at the end of Ch. 28, “Tom Sawyer couldn’t a’ done it no neater himself. Of course he would ‘a’ throwed more style into it, but I can't do it that very handy, not being brung up to it”?
Says this because he believes that executed the act of throwing the money in the coffin well
Tom Sawyer was one of Huck’s good friends and was a great criminal
Believes he couldn't have done it better

7.
They laugh because they know they will be lynched
They also laugh because they are false brothers

After trying to escape from the king and duke he ends up failing
Tried to escape using a raft but does not make it on time.