The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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   amy-lepore Teacher
   High School - 12th Grade

   These two colorful characters come into the action in Chapter 19 of the text.  They are running from the crowd of a local town where they have been swindling.  They are con artists, and take on the titles of "King" and "Duke" to gain privileges on the raft among Jim and Huck.  The two come up with amazing cons from plays to revivals where they cook up schemes to rob people of their money.  They even come up with the idea of making a flier for Jim as a runaway slave so the group could travel safely by raft during the day since Huck has no papers for Jim.

   They end up being tarred and feathered by townspeople as a punishment for hoodwinking the folks out of their hard-earned money.

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