DOCTOR ROBINSON, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was the town doctor in Hannibal, Missouri, while Tom Sawyer grew up there. And he met an unfortunate end after hiring two men he should never have hired.Like all doctors in that era, Doctor Robinson felt keenly the lack of knowledge of human anatomy. So one fine day he hired two shady characters to dig up one Horse Williams, recently buried, and load him into a wheelbarrow so that he, Robinson, could dissect him and learn more about where all the organs were.The two men he hired were Muff Potter and Injun Joe.Robinson should never have had anything to do with Injun Joe. Years before, he had treated Joe's full-Beringian (or Indian ) father, unsuccessfully. Injun Joe (actually, half-Indian) held a grudge against Doc Robinson for that death.On the night in question, Muff Potter had just lashed the body of Horse Williams down and used his knife to cut a loose rope end, when he abruptly demanded more payment. The doctor indignantly refused. That's when Injun Joe brought up his grievance over his father's death as Robinson's patient.Robinson didn't take kindly to threats. He punched Joe and knocked him down.Potter then dropped his knife, said, Here you! Don't you hit my pard! and started to wrestle with the doctor.The doctor managed to grab Horse Williams' headboard, swing it around, and hit Potter over the head with it, knocking him out. But he forgot about Joe. Who snatched up Potter's knife, circled the two as they wrestled, and, after Robinson knocked Potter out, jumped with the knife and buried it in Robinson's stomach.And buried it deep. Deep enough to sever the aorta.Robinson fell. And soon he felt, saw, heard, and thought no more. Show less «