Huck's drunken father pushes him around. Jim finds a corpse aboard a boat. A boy is attacked by a rattlesnake. A lynching is threatened by an angry mob.

Huck smokes a corncob pipe regularly, as does Jim.

Huck's father is a loathsome and violent drunk.

Huck's young friend, a Tom Sawyer type, asks Huck to let him try a corncob pipe. Huck refuses at first, but when the boy persists, Huck lends him his pipe. The boy enjoys it at first, but then becomes queasy and runs off. "Told ya you shouldn't have smoked that pipe," Huck tells him.

A rattlesnake attacks and bites a character. An angry mob threatens to lynch a man.