• The king and the duke were spending all day setting up the stage. 
• The king came out naked and painted with stripes, on all fours. 
• The crowd made him [king] do the act three times. 
• Crowd was angry for being sold out for a short act. 
• King, duke and Huck sold out the next nights crowd the same way. 
• The third night was supposed to be for the actors, but they sold them out again by not showing up. 
• Made four hundred and sixty-five dollars in those three nights. 
• Huck tells Jim about the kings of England. 
• Jim cries and regrets the way he treated his children before, when he was a slave. 
• He explains how he found out that his ‘Lizabeth was deaf. 

• Huck: narrator of the story. 
• Jim: runaway slave Huck is helping. 
• King: a man Huck helped escape a lynch mob. Says he is “Looy the Seventeenth” 
• Duke: a man Huck helped escape a lynch mob. Says he is the heir to the dukedom of Bridgewater. 

• Why does Huck continue to bow and scrape to these men of he knows that they aren’t REAL kings and dukes?
• What characteristics does Jim show when he was telling Huck about ‘Lizabeth? 

• “Don’t it ‘sprise you, de way dem kings carries on, Huck?” 
  “No,” I says, “it don’t.”
  “Why don’t it, Huck?”
  “Well, it don’t, because it’s in the breed. I reackon they’re all alike.”
  
  - Huck knows that “king” isn’t really a king and that “duke” isn’t really a duke. Though he thinks that they are all the same, whether real royalty or not, they are the same to him. 

• “Oh, de po’ little thing! De Lord God Amighty forgive po’ ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to forgive hisself as long’s he live!’ Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb- en I’d ben a treat’n her so!” 

- Jim really hated himself at that point. The self recrimination was just oozing out of him. He probably took a lesson from this, not to go to anger so quick. 

• Jim is not completely stupid as Twain is portraying him to be.
• Huck know that King and Duke are not real kings and dukes.