… and they probably gave up in despair when they came Mark Twain’s other masterpiece—written in language designed to drive pendants completely crazy, yet one of the most readable books in the world.
And then Tom he talked along, and talked along, and he says, let’s all three slide out of here, one of these nights, and get an outfit, and go for howling adventures amongst the injuns, over in the Territory, for a couple of weeks or so; and I says all right, that suits me, but I ain’t got no money for to buy the outfit, and I reckon I couldn’t get none from home, because its likely pap’s been back before now, and got it all away from Judge Thatcher and drunk it up.
“No, he hain’t,” Tom says; “It’s all there yet—six thousand dollars and more; and your pap hain’t ever been back since. Hain’t when I come away, anyhow.”
Jim says, kind of solemn: “He ain’t comin’ back no mo’, Huck.”
I says: “Why Jim?”
“Nemmine why, Huck—but he ain’t comin’ back no mo’.”
But I kept at him; so at last he says: “Doan’ you ‘member de house dat was floatin’ down de river, en dey wuz a man in dah, kivered up, en I went en unkivered him and didn’ let you come in? Well, den, you k’n git yo’ money when you wants; kase dat wuz him.”
 Tom’s most well, now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it and I ain’t a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilise me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.

 “There you are. That’s the end,” Rosely said flatly. It was too. The reading times had become so spasmodic that it had taken almost a year to get through Huckleberry Finn, and it was, as I recall, the last book she ever read to me. I think there were a few random attempts to start other books later but they didn’t last long. From then on, I was entirely on my own.