- Huckleberry Finn: Ah, heck, before I got rich and the widow was civilizin' me all the time, you were just about the only grown up who didn't turn your nose up on me.
- Jim: Yeah, that's 'cause I knows enough to know I don't know enough to judge anybody.
- Tom Sawyer: [Tom and Sam have been fighting in the mud, both claiming that they were Huck's best friend] Ah, heck! Fighting like this is dumb. Huck was a prince... a king! He could'a had two best friends. He could'a had a dozen.
- Sam Davis: Tom, we can't go to school lookin' like this.
- [picks up his tomahawk from the ground]
- Tom Sawyer: Gee, you're right! We'd get a good hiding.
- Sam Davis: What are we gonna do? We haven't time to go home and get cleaned up.
- Tom Sawyer: I know what we're gonna do: we're gonna pay one last tribute to Huckleberry Finn.
- [starts walking in the other direction]
- Sam Davis: We are?
- Tom Sawyer: Sure. We're gonna do what he would've done on a hot day like this. In honor of his memory, instead'a goin' to school, we're gonna go to the swimmin' hole.
- Sam Davis: You mean play hooky?
- Tom Sawyer: Well sure, that what he would'a wanted us to do.
- Widow Douglas: [close to tears] One of the children brought Huckleberry's things home from school.
- [sniffles]
- Widow Douglas: Look how he spelled 'jewel': J, U, E, L.
- Huckleberry Finn: Heck, Jim, I can't be a criminal, I'm dead, remember?
- Jim: Now that don't make no nevermind. Now you know what's right for white folks and what's wrong. You was brought up to turn me in, now just, just go and on and tell 'em where I am. You'll get the reward!
- Huckleberry Finn: But Jim, don't you see, I can't turn anybody in without lettin' everybody see I'm still alive.
- Jim: Yeah... . that's so... But in your heart you'll still be a criminal and you'll know it.
- Huckleberry Finn: Ah, shucks, that don't make no difference. Tom Sawyer and me figured on bein' highwaymen when we grow up, anyway.
- Jim: [thinking Huck is a ghost] I always liked you when you was alive, no reason for you to come back and haunt me.
- Tom Sawyer: [Sam Davis pretends to attack Tom Sawyer with a tomahawk on the way] Dang you, Sam Davis! That's a fool thing to do! What's the matter with you, anyways?
- Sam Davis: I'm an Indian, you're a brave cavalry officer. Yesterday you said I supposed to try and scalp you on the way to school today.
- Tom Sawyer: Well, that's yesterday. Things are different today. It's not every day you lose a friend like Huck.
- Sam Davis: I keep forgetting it happened. It don't seem possible.
- Tom Sawyer: Yeah, I've been walking and thinking about it. Life just don't seem worth living any more. It's like all the fun's gone out of it, along with him.
- Sam Davis: I think his Pap killed him, that's what I think.
- Tom Sawyer: Judge Thatcher said it could be robbers. But whoever it is, I'm gonna avenge Huck, just like it is in the books, and that's a sacred promise!
- Aunt Polly: Land o' Caution, when Tom told me Jim had ran off, I just about boxed that poor boy's ears for fibbin'.
- Judge Thatcher: The ways of men are varied and often, I regret to say, past understanding.
- Huckleberry Finn: [narrating] I tell ya, there's no better way to sleep than the way we was meant to: out in the woods and free. Except the body gets powerful hungry, and I didn't dare light a fire in the daytime. The smoke might be seen on the Missouri shore.