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Chapter 33Huck meets tom turkey Sawyer on the road and stops his carriage. Tom is frightened and thinks he is seeing a ghost, barely Huck reassures him and they settle down. Huck then tells Tom what has happened at the Phelpss and Tom thinks ab break through what they should do. He then tells Huck to return to the farm with his suitcase eyepatch he returns to the town and s pitch shotts the trip over. Huck gets back and soon thereafter Tom arrives. The family is excited because they do not get very many visitors so they make Tom welcome. Tom makes up a whole story about his hometown and then impudently kisses Aunt Sally right on the mouth. She is so shocked that she nearly hits him over the head with her spinning stick until Tom tells her that he is Sid Sawyer. Silas then explains that Jim revealed to him what a scandal the Royal Nonesuch really was. Silas says that he told the rest of the town, and he figures they will ride the two cheats out of town that night. Huck and Tom clim b out of their windows in a last chip attempt to warn the Duke and King, but they are too late. They see the two men being paraded through the street all covered in tar and feathers. Huck remarks that human beings can be awfully cruel to one another. Chapter 34Tom and Huck think about ways to break Jim out of his prison. Huck plans to get the raft, steal the key to the padlock, unlock the door and then float down the river some more. Tom tells him that plan is too simple and would achievement too well. Toms plan is much more elaborate and stylish, and takes a great deal longer to implement. The boys go to the hut where Jim is being kept and search around. in the end Tom decides that the best way, or at least the way that will take the longest, is to dig a hole for Jim to climb out of. The next twenty-four hour period he and Huck follow the black man who is delivering Jims food. Jim recognizes them and calls them by name, but both boys pretend not to have heard anything. When he has a chance, Tom tells Jim that they are going to dig him out. Jim is so happy he grabs Toms hand and shakes it.