The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn·

that I'd found when I was exploring; so we started and soon got to it, b

around all over it, and by and by found a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois. The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, a

h there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without dogs. And, besid

s up there. Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willow

side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a

ely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spiderwebby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale underside of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would follow along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the bluest and blackest -- FST! it was as bright as gl

to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along a

dah in de woods widout any dinner, en gittn' mos' drownded, too; dat you wou

foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom. On that side it was a good many miles wide, but on the M

to back away and go some other way. Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabbits and snakes and such things; and when the island had been overflowed a day or two they got so tame, on account of being hungry, that yo

fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches -- a solid, level floor. We

the west side. She was a two-story, and tilted over considerable. We paddled out and got aboard -- clumb in at a

a bed, and a table, and two old chairs, and lots of things around about on the floor, and there was clothes hangin

lo,

So I hollered again

he's dead. You hold st

nt down and loo

in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come

There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too. We put the lot into the canoe -- it might come good. There was a boy's old speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that, too. And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it had a rag stopper fo

ns and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leavi

de Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off. I paddled over to the Illinois