I think your question is slightly confused. Pap actually
spends most of his time in the story drunk or otherwise under the influence of alcohol,
apart from the time when he apparently is reformed by the well-meaning but incredibly
naive Judge who tries to correct his alcoholism. It is Chapter Five that these events
occur, and you might want to re-read it to remember what happens
precisely.
What happens between Pap's first drunken scene
in the novel and the new judge's attempts to reform him is that "the judge and the
widow" try to legaly remove Huck from pap by going to the court. They ask for one of
them to be his guardian. Note the new judge's response to this
plea:
...but
it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts
mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not
take a child away from its
father.
Thus Judge Thatcher
is foiled in his attempts to save Huck, much to the delight of Pap, who sees this as a
personal victory and forces Huck to get some more money for him which he spends on
getting drunk.
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