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- # Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood
## Overview
This entity is a **scene** extracted from the novel *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* by Mark Twain. It spans lines 6487 to 6547 in the source text and was identified during automated processing on January 28, 2026. The scene is titled "Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood" and captures a conversation between the protagonists, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, as they prepare for an adventure.
## Context
The scene is part of [CHAPTER XXVI](arke:01KG176GP4F0CB9EKDD7GP8249), which itself belongs to the full novel [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete](arke:01KG17620ND2Q83R02B18E9MJZ). It was extracted from the plain-text file [tom_sawyer.txt](arke:01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534) and is included in the [More Classics](arke:01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS) collection, which curates canonical literary works. This scene directly follows a minimal chapter header and precedes the scene [Playing Robin Hood](arke:01KG1772XEAH3BWBDB3W511VFG), forming the opening narrative action of the chapter.
## Contents
The scene centers on Tom and Huck’s superstitious concerns about undertaking a risky activity on a Friday. Huck recalls having a bad dream about rats, which they interpret as a sign of impending trouble. After deciding to avoid potential misfortune by postponing their plan to explore the haunted house, they shift to playing make-believe. Tom introduces the legend of Robin Hood, describing him as a noble robber who stole from the rich to help the poor. He extols Robin Hood’s heroic qualities, including unmatched bravery and archery skill, and offers to teach Huck about the character through imaginative play. The dialogue reflects the boys’ blend of childhood innocence, superstition, and romanticized notions of heroism and adventure.
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- About noon the next day the boys arrived at the dead tree; they had come
for their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was
measurably so, also—but suddenly said:
“Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?”
Tom mentally ran over the days of the week, and then quickly lifted his
eyes with a startled look in them—
“My! I never once thought of it, Huck!”
“Well, I didn’t neither, but all at once it popped onto me that it was
Friday.”
“Blame it, a body can’t be too careful, Huck. We might ’a’ got into an
awful scrape, tackling such a thing on a Friday.”
“_Might_! Better say we _would_! There’s some lucky days, maybe, but
Friday ain’t.”
“Any fool knows that. I don’t reckon _you_ was the first that found it
out, Huck.”
“Well, I never said I was, did I? And Friday ain’t all, neither. I had a
rotten bad dream last night—dreampt about rats.”
“No! Sure sign of trouble. Did they fight?”
“No.”
“Well, that’s good, Huck. When they don’t fight it’s only a sign that
there’s trouble around, you know. All we got to do is to look mighty
sharp and keep out of it. We’ll drop this thing for today, and play. Do
you know Robin Hood, Huck?”
“No. Who’s Robin Hood?”
“Why, he was one of the greatest men that was ever in England—and the
best. He was a robber.”
“Cracky, I wisht I was. Who did he rob?”
“Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. But
he never bothered the poor. He loved ’em. He always divided up with ’em
perfectly square.”
“Well, he must ’a’ been a brick.”
“I bet you he was, Huck. Oh, he was the noblest man that ever was.
They ain’t any such men now, I can tell you. He could lick any man in
England, with one hand tied behind him; and he could take his yew bow
and plug a ten-cent piece every time, a mile and a half.”
“What’s a _yew_ bow?”
“I don’t know. It’s some kind of a bow, of course. And if he hit that
dime only on the edge he would set down and cry—and curse. But we’ll
play Robin Hood—it’s nobby fun. I’ll learn you.”
“I’m agreed.”
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- Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood