{"id":"01KG1772XECM7REB2YEGQ5TJXH","cid":"bafkreie4stqom3jmnbe5shs2w4win7viht5y3fdvqlqbbiekodauapnlqq","type":"scene","properties":{"description":"# Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood\n\n## Overview\nThis 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.\n\n## Context\nThe 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.\n\n## Contents\nThe 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.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-28T02:39:13.045Z","description_model":"Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507","description_title":"Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood","end_line":6547,"extracted_at":"2026-01-28T02:34:12.446Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood","source_file":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","start_line":6487,"text":"About noon the next day the boys arrived at the dead tree; they had come\r\nfor their tools. Tom was impatient to go to the haunted house; Huck was\r\nmeasurably so, also—but suddenly said:\r\n\r\n“Lookyhere, Tom, do you know what day it is?”\r\n\r\nTom mentally ran over the days of the week, and then quickly lifted his\r\neyes with a startled look in them—\r\n\r\n“My! I never once thought of it, Huck!”\r\n\r\n“Well, I didn’t neither, but all at once it popped onto me that it was\r\nFriday.”\r\n\r\n“Blame it, a body can’t be too careful, Huck. We might ’a’ got into an\r\nawful scrape, tackling such a thing on a Friday.”\r\n\r\n“_Might_! Better say we _would_! There’s some lucky days, maybe, but\r\nFriday ain’t.”\r\n\r\n“Any fool knows that. I don’t reckon _you_ was the first that found it\r\nout, Huck.”\r\n\r\n“Well, I never said I was, did I? And Friday ain’t all, neither. I had a\r\nrotten bad dream last night—dreampt about rats.”\r\n\r\n“No! Sure sign of trouble. Did they fight?”\r\n\r\n“No.”\r\n\r\n“Well, that’s good, Huck. When they don’t fight it’s only a sign that\r\nthere’s trouble around, you know. All we got to do is to look mighty\r\nsharp and keep out of it. We’ll drop this thing for today, and play. Do\r\nyou know Robin Hood, Huck?”\r\n\r\n“No. Who’s Robin Hood?”\r\n\r\n“Why, he was one of the greatest men that was ever in England—and the\r\nbest. He was a robber.”\r\n\r\n“Cracky, I wisht I was. Who did he rob?”\r\n\r\n“Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. But\r\nhe never bothered the poor. He loved ’em. He always divided up with ’em\r\nperfectly square.”\r\n\r\n“Well, he must ’a’ been a brick.”\r\n\r\n“I bet you he was, Huck. Oh, he was the noblest man that ever was.\r\nThey ain’t any such men now, I can tell you. He could lick any man in\r\nEngland, with one hand tied behind him; and he could take his yew bow\r\nand plug a ten-cent piece every time, a mile and a half.”\r\n\r\n“What’s a _yew_ bow?”\r\n\r\n“I don’t know. It’s some kind of a bow, of course. And if he hit that\r\ndime only on the edge he would set down and cry—and curse. But we’ll\r\nplay Robin Hood—it’s nobby fun. I’ll learn you.”\r\n\r\n“I’m agreed.”\r\n\r","title":"Dialogue about Friday and Robin Hood"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG176GP4F0CB9EKDD7GP8249","peer_label":"CHAPTER XXVI","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","peer_label":"tom_sawyer.txt","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG1772XCNE3N39AX2XPR4EW5","peer_label":"CHAPTER XXVI","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG1772XEAH3BWBDB3W511VFG","peer_label":"Playing Robin Hood","peer_type":"scene","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-28T02:34:13.073Z","ts":"2026-01-28T02:39:13.293Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}