1 Huckleberry viewed it wistfully.
2 He turned, and his eyes met Huckleberry's.
3 Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat.
4 Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will.
5 I reckon so," said Huckleberry; "anyways, I'm suited.
6 Then he showed Huckleberry how to make an H and an F, and the oath was complete.
7 Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.
8 Huckleberry was filled with admiration of Tom's facility in writing, and the sublimity of his language.
9 Then they hunted up Huckleberry Finn, and he joined them promptly, for all careers were one to him; he was indifferent.
10 Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial bloom and fluttering with rags.
11 Huckleberry's hard pantings were his only reply, and the boys fixed their eyes on the goal of their hopes and bent to their work to win it.
12 Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
13 Then Huckleberry and Tom stood dumb and staring, and heard the stony-hearted liar reel off his serene statement, they expecting every moment that the clear sky would deliver God's lightnings upon his head, and wondering to see how long the stroke was delayed.
14 Every boy he encountered added another ton to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a Scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.