Huck escapes and finds a friend

Mostly it was a lazy, comfortable kind of life, but after about two months Pop began to hit me too much with his stick.

He often went away into town too, and then he always locked me in the hut.

Once he was away for three days and I thought I was never going to get out again.

When he came back that time, he was drunk and angry.

He wanted my money, but Judge Thatcher wouldn't give it to him.

The judge wanted to send me to live with the widow again, Pop told me.

I wasn't very pleased about that.

I didn't want to go back there.

So I decided to escape and go down the river and live in the woods somewhere.