Huck cannot let the King and Duke steal the money from these extremely kind girls, so he decided to steal the money back for them.
The summary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter 27, saw Huck so afraid of being caught with the stolen money, he decided to hide it inside Peter Wilks's coffin. That day of the funeral, the service was interrupted by loud barking from a dog locked in the cellar. The undertaker goes to silence the dog, returned, and told the audience the dog caught a rat. Huck remarks that the service was long and tiresome, but he felt relieved when Peter Wilks and the money are finally buried.
The King and Duke immediately begin selling everything they can, including the slave family owned by the household. To sell the slaves faster, they break up the family. The girls are extremely upset by this insensitivity. Many of the townspeople also expressed disapproval, but the men are not swayed.
On the day of the auction, the King realizes the money is gone. He questions Huck, who cleverly blames the slaves who were sold. Both the Duke and King feel extremely foolish for selling the slaves at such low prices considering all their money is now lost.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel published by Mark Twain in the United Kingdom in December 1884, then in America in February 1885. This book is a sequel to Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is considered as one of the greatest American novels ever written.
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