Inside the story
Meet Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn is the town’s ragged outcast and the son of its local drunkard. He answers to no one and lives freely, while serving as Tom Sawyer’s admired but forbidden companion.
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A homeless boy of about Tom's age dressed in the cast-off, oversized clothes of grown men, perennially fluttering with rags: a vast ruined hat with a crescent lopped from its brim, a coat hanging to his heels, trousers held by a single suspender and dragging in the dirt. Barefoot, with unkempt hair and a dirt-smudged, cheerful face.
