Huck and Jim build a wigwam on the raft and spend a number of days drifting downriver, traveling by night and hiding by day to avoid being seen. The two of them “live pretty high,” buying, stealing, or hunting food as they need it. They feel somewhat remorseful about the stealing. One stormy night, they come upon a wrecked steamboat. On the wreck, Huck overhears two robbers threatening to kill a third so that he won’t “tell.” One of the two robbers manages to convince the other to let their victim be drowned with the wreck. Jim and Huck's boat has been broken and has floated away. Huck and Jim head for the robbers’ boat. Jim and Huck jump into the robbers’ boat and head off as quietly as possible. When they are a few hundred yards away, Huck feels bad for the robbers left stranded on the wreck. Once on land, Huck finds a ferry watchman and tells him his family is stranded on the Walter Scott steamboat wreck. Jim and Huck sink the robbers’ boat and then go to sleep. Huck reads books from the wreck, and the two discuss what Huck calls their “adventures.” Jim says he doesn’t enjoy adventures, as they could easily end in his death or capture. Huck and Jim approach the Ohio River, their goal. After a lonely time adrift, Huck reunites with Jim, who is asleep on the raft. Jim is thrilled to see Huck alive, but Huck tries to trick Jim by pretending that Jim dreamed up their entire separation.
I thought that the part where Huck says that Jim must have been dreaming the entire separation up. Also, I thought their argument was funny, about whether or not the French spoke English. I am also, surprised that Huck would send the murderers help, after they were going to just let that guy die. I am also, glad that the murderers got a little bit of ironic justice, because they were going to let someone die, and then the two murderers also probably drowned when the ship they were on sunk.
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