• Huck arrives at the Phelps’s plantation where supposedly Jim is being held, and is soon surrounded by their hounds. A woman slave runs out of the house with her children to call off the dogs, and is followed by a white woman, Mrs. Phelps, and her children.
• Mrs. Phelps is extremely excited because she believes that Huck is her nephew, Tom. 
• Without thinking, Huck says that he is her nephew 
• When “Aunt Sally” (Mrs. Phelps) asks Huck why he is so late, he tells her that the boat blew a cylinder head. When Aunt Sally asks if anyone was hurt, Huck says no, but a Negro was killed. Mrs. Phelps is relieved that it was so “lucky.” 
• Aunt Sally then decides to play a trick on her husband, Huck’s “uncle” Silas, when he gets back from trying to pick up their nephew by pretending that “Tom” hadn’t arrived. 
• When Uncle Silas returns home, he sees Huck and asks who he is. Aunt Sally replies, “It’s Tome Sawyer!” Huck’s best friend. 
• After hearing a steamboat Huck decides he must go warn Tom, and heads up to town to get his baggage. 

• Huck 
• Aunt Sally (Mrs. Phelps): sister of Tom’s aunt, Polly 
• Uncle Silas (Mr. Phelps): Tom’s uncle 
• Lize: the Phelps’s woman slave 

• Is Tom Sawyer’s return into the story too much of a coincidence? 
• What is different about the way Huck describes the Phelps’s plantation? Why did the author write it this way? 

• “Good gracious! Anybody hurt?” 
  “No’m. Killed a n___.”
  “Well, it’s lucky…” 
  ~ Aunt Sally and Huck (222)
  
  - Even though there was no accident in which someone was killed, it’s disturbing that the Negro that was supposedly killed was not considered “anybody” to Huck and Aunt Sally. Twain uses satire with the idea that the accident was “lucky” only because no whites were harmed.

• “It was like being born again, I was so glad to find out who I was” (225). 

- This is when Huck finally finds out that Mr. and Mrs. Phelps are the aunt and uncle of his best friend, Tom Sawyer. The importance of this passage is to show Huck being happy for the first time in a long while, and show his excitement about it being no one else but Tom Sawyer. It is shown throughout the book that Huck almost idolizes his friend, but here will be the main point in the book when we get to see the two actually interact.

• A woman slave being portrayed by a character holding a rolling pin and hollering at the dogs 
• Huck notes that the white children act just like the black children 
• Huck says that no one was hurt on the boat, just a n***** was killed 
• Tom Sawyer’s return may rely too heavily on coincidence