“ I had forgot my name was… and when Buck waked up I says:
‘Can you spell, Buck?’
‘ Yes,’ he says
‘I bet you can’t spell my name,’ says I…
‘G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n – there now’ he says.
Twain 104
This passage shows Huck’s cleverness that gets him out of trouble for time to time. For if he had forgotten his name then the family he was staying with would figure out that it was a fake name and that he was telling a lie from all along. Thus by having the family figure out that he is a fraud he might be expelled from the house. His cleverness also came in handy when he was talking to the two men on the boat about who was on the raft, when Huck did not want the men looking in the raft and finding Jim. His Cleverness came in hand in that he played a game with the men to make them think his father had small pox, by doing this he gain forty dollars.
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