• Duke and Dauphin wake up from drunk night 
• During day Duke and Dauphin do scene from Romeo and Juliet 
• They are practicing their sword fighting and Hamlet to scam townspeople’s. 
• Huck claims it is a ridiculous town where they have arrived 
• At Town Duke promotes the play by putting up signs 
• Sherburn insulted by drunk Boggs shoots him in front of his own daughter 
• Lynch mob prepares to kill Sherburn but fails 

• Huck: as narrator 
• Duke and Dauphin: Practice there performance 
• Sherburn: Shoots drunk man known as Boggs 
• Drunks daughter- witnesses fathers death 

• Why doesn’t Huck attempt to stop the Duke and Dauphins schemes? 
• What does the killing of a drunken man tell us about there society? 

• “Well, by and by somebody said Sherburn ought to be lynched. In about a minute everybody was saying it; so away they went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to do the with.” 

- This passage tells us that somebody came up with the idea to go and try to kill Sherburn for killing Boggs. Boggs had been drunk since the beginning of the chapter and insulted Sherburn. 

• “The circus would leave before night, so our show would have a pretty good chance. The duke he hired the courthouse, and we went around and stuck up our bills. They read like this.” 

- This passage is telling us how the Duke and Dauphin prepare their performance before they scam people out of their novel. Huck realizes they are con artists but so far has not done anything really to stop them. 

• Huck doesn’t try to help society by stopping the Duke and Dauphin.
• Sherburn uses an insult as an excuse to kill Boggs
• Sherburn escapes death by giving a speech to the mob