The duke and king come aboard the raft with Huck and Jim and pretend to be royalty.
They perform their first cons; the duke makes nine bucks, and the king pulls a scam at a religious gathering to garner over $80.
The king learns Shakespeare from the duke, and they plan for a performance.
Both men perform The Royal Nonesuch scam and make bank in doing so.
The duke dresses Jim up as an Arab.
The king pretends to be the British preacher Harvey Wilks to scam money from dead Peter Wilks’s family while the duke plays along as the deaf-mute brother, William.
The men use their Royal Nonesuch money to make up a deficit in the inheritance.