Includes bibliographical references (pages 853-875)

The Life of Mark Twain -- Discover Moses and the Bulrushers -- Our Gang's Dark Oath -- We Ambuscade the A-rabs -- The Hair-ball Oracle -- Pap Starts in on a New Life -- Pap Struggles with the Death Angel -- I Fool. Pap and Get Away -- I Spare Miss Watson's Jim -- The House of Death Floats By -- What Comes of Handlin Snake-skin -- They're After Us! -- "Better Let Blame Well Alone" -- Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott" -- Was Solomon Wise? -- Fooling Poor Old Jim -- The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work -- The Grangerfords Take Me In -- Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat -- The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard -- What Royalty Did to Parkville -- An Arkansas Difficulty -- Why the Lynching Bee Failed -- The Orneriness of Kings -- The King Turns Parson -- All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle -- I Steal the King's Plunder -- Dead Peter Has His Gold -- Overreaching Don't Pay -- I Light Out in the Storm -- The Gold Saves the Thieves -- You Can't Pray a Lie -- I Have a New Name -- The Pitiful Ending of Royalty -- We Cheer Up Jim -- Dark, Deep-Laid Plans -- Trying to Help Jim -- Jim Gets His Witch Pie -- "Here a Captive Heart Busted" -- Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters -- A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue -- "Must 'a' Been Sperits" -- Why They Didn't Hang Jim

A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library

The adventures of a boy and a runway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft