“What’s that yonder?”
“A piece of a raft,” I says.
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“Do you belong on it?”
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Jim sings out:
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He jumped and got the canoe ready, and put his old coat in the bottom for me to set on, and give
me the paddle; and as I shoved off, he says:
“Pooty soon I’ll be a-shout’n’ for joy, en I’ll say, it’s all on accounts o’ Huck; I’s a free man, en I
couldn’t ever ben free ef it hadn’ ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won’t ever forgit you, Huck;
you’s de bes’ fren’ Jim’s ever had; en you’s de ONLY fren’ ole Jim’s got now.”
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the tuck all out of me. I went along slow then, and I warn’t right down certain whether I was glad I
started or whether I warn’t. When I was fifty yards off, Jim says:
“Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on’y white genlman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim.”
Well, I just felt sick. But I says,cheap runescape money, I GOT to do it–I can’t get OUT of it. Right then along comes a
skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped. One of them says:

without ever smiling, and says:
“What do dey stan’ for? I’se gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’
for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’ k’yer no’ mo’
what become er me en de raf’. En when I wake up en fine you back agin, all safe en soun’, de tears
come, en I could a got down on my knees en kiss yo’ foot, I’s so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin’
’bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck dah is TRASH; en trash is
what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed.”
Then he got up slow and walked to the wigwam, and went in there without saying anything but
that. But that was enough. It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed HIS foot to get him to
take it back.
It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I
done it,runescape money, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards,metin2 yang, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and
I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way.
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CHAPTER XVI.
WE slept most all day,wow power leveling, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was
as long going by as a procession. She had four long sweeps at each end, so we judged she carried
as many as thirty men, likely. She had five big wigwams aboard,wow gold, wide apart, and an open camp
fire in the middle, and a tall flag-pole at each end. There was a power of style about her. It
AMOUNTED to something being a raftsman on such a craft as that.

for nothing don’t look natural nor sound natural in a fog.
The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky
ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of
snags that fairly roared, the currrent was tearing by them so swift.
In another second or two it was solid white and still again. I set perfectly still then, listening to my
heart thump, and I reckon I didn’t draw a breath while it thumped a hundred.
I just give up then. I knowed what the matter was. That cut bank was an island, and Jim had gone
down t’other side of it. It warn’t no towhead that you could float by in ten minutes. It had the big
timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long and more than half a mile wide.
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you’ll see.
Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off,
and tries to follow it, but I couldn’t do it, and directly I judged I’d got into a nest of towheads, for I
had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me–sometimes just a narrow channel between,
and some that I couldn’t see I knowed was there because I’d hear the wash of the current against
the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks. Well, I warn’t long loosing the whoops
down amongst the towheads; and I only tried to chase them a little while, anyway,runescape money, because it was
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places so quick and so much.

and when Packard got to my stateroom, he says:
“Here–come in here.”
And in he come, and Bill after him. But before they got in I was up in the upper berth, cornered,
and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked. I
couldn’t see them, but I could tell where they was by the whisky they’d been having. I was glad I
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breathe and hear such talk. They talked low and earnest. Bill wanted to kill Turner. He says:
“He’s said he’ll tell, and he will. If we was to give both our shares to him NOW it wouldn’t make
no difference after the row and the way we’ve served him. Shore’s you’re born, he’ll turn State’s
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after a halter if you can git at what you’re up to in some way that’s jist as good and at the same
time don’t bring you into no resks. Ain’t that so?”
“You bet it is. But how you goin’ to manage it this time?”

“Well, try to remember it, George. Don’t forget and tell me it’s Elexander before you go, and then
get out by saying it’s George Elexander when I catch you. And don’t go about women in that old
calico. You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you
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t’other way. And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your
hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot. Throw
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I went up the bank about fifty yards, and then I doubled on my tracks and slipped back to where
my canoe was, a good piece below the house. I jumped in, and was off in a hurry. I went up-
stream far enough to make the head of the island, and then started across. I took off the sun-
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struck the head of the island I never waited to blow, though I was most winded, but I shoved right
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go. I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern. There Jim laid,
sound asleep on the ground. I roused him out and says:

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wuz a nigger trader roun’ de place considable lately, en I begin to git oneasy. Well, one night I
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“I tuck out en shin down de hill, en ’spec to steal a skift ‘long de sho’ som’ers ‘bove de town,rs money, but
dey wuz people a-stirring yit, so I hid in de ole tumble-down cooper-shop on de bank to wait for
everybody to go ‘way. Well, I wuz dah all night. Dey wuz somebody roun’ all de time. ‘Long ’bout
six in de mawnin’ skifts begin to go by, en ’bout eight er nine every skift dat went ‘long wuz talkin’
’bout how yo’ pap come over to de town en say you’s killed. Dese las’ skifts wuz full o’ ladies en
genlmen a-goin’ over for to see de place. Sometimes dey’d pull up at de sho’ en take a res’ b’fo’ dey
started acrost, so by de talk I got to know all ’bout de killin’. I ‘uz powerful sorry you’s killed,
Huck, but I ain’t no mo’ now.
“I laid dah under de shavin’s all day. I ‘uz hungry, but I warn’t afeard; bekase I knowed ole missus
en de widder wuz goin’ to start to de camp-meet’n’ right arter breakfas’ en be gone all day, en dey
knows I goes off wid de cattle ’bout daylight, so dey wouldn’ ’spec to see me roun’ de place, en so
dey wouldn’ miss me tell arter dark in de evenin’. De yuther servants wouldn’ miss me, kase dey’d
shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks ‘uz out’n de way.
“Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went ’bout two mile er more to whah dey

I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t’other one out for what the rise might fetch
along. Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long,
riding high like a duck. I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck
out for the canoe. I just expected there’d be somebody laying down in it, because people often
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one place for good, and not have such a rough time tramping on foot.
It was pretty close to the shanty, and I thought I heard the old man coming all the time; but I got
her hid; and then I out and looked around a bunch of willows, and there was the old man down the
path a piece just drawing a bead on a bird with his gun. So he hadn’t seen anything.
When he got along I was hard at it taking up a “trot” line. He abused me a little for being so slow;
but I told him I fell in the river, and that was what made me so long. I knowed he would see I was
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“Another time a man comes a-prowling round here you roust me out, you hear? That man warn’t
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down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it all over, and I reckoned I would walk off with the
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asleep or drownded.
I got the things all up to the cabin, and then it was about dark. While I was cooking supper the old
man took a swig or two and got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again. He had been drunk
over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought
he was Adam–he was just all mud. Whenever his liquor begun to work he most always went for
the govment, this time he says:
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Them’s the very words. I says look at my hat–if you call it a hat–but the lid raises up and the rest
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the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights.

at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the
clapboards of the roof. I greased it up and went to work. There was an old horse-blanket nailed
against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through
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was going wrong. His lawyer said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they
ever got started on the trial; but then there was ways to put it off a long time, and Judge Thatcher
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and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went back and set