<p><strong>Well it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansaw. </strong>The frost was working out of the ground and out of the air too and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time and next mumblety-peg and next tops and hoops and next kites and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming. It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is. . . .</p><p>Many of the characters The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn return in this tale.</p>