Huckleberry Finn and His Friends

Tom plays hooky to go swimming with Huck, and nearly gets away with it too until Sid interferes. To get back at him, Tom rashly boasts that he'll get a prize bible before Sid does.

Faced with spending his whole Saturday whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom persuades his friends to do the work for him and to pay for the privilege too. Tom meets Judge Thatcher's niece, Becky, and immediately falls in love with her.

After deliberately getting into trouble at school so that he can sit with the girls, Tom persuades Becky to meet him at recess, when he suggests that they get engaged.

Tom and Huck visit the graveyard at midnight, intending to use a dead cat to cure warts. But instead of the devils they expect, three grave robbers arrive and the boys witness the murder of the doctor.

Tom and Joe are both miserable so, together with Huck, they decide the only thing for them to do is to run away and become pirates. When their boat springs a leak, they set up camp on Jackson Island.

Aunt Polly and Mrs Harper discover that their boys are missing, and realize that Tom, Joe and Huck ran away. They start to fear the worst when the leaky boat the boys stole washes ashore.