he was going to escape.The next night while Pap was in town, Huck found a saw and cut out a piece of one of the walls. He crawled through the hole and replaced the piece of wood so that Pap wouldn't notice it. Huck then smashed the cabin door with an ax, spread blood from a pig he had killed over the ground, and put some of his hair on the end of the blood-covered ax. He was hoping Pap would think he had been murdered.Huck camped out on the uninhabited Jackson Island for a few days. Then one night he became scared when he saw a campfire that wasn't his. He was relieved to find out that it belonged to Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Jim, thinking that Huck was a ghost, was very frightened.Huck eventually calmed Jim down and told him the whole story of his faked death. Jim then explained to Huck that he had run away after hearing that Miss Watson was planning to sell him. After their talk, the two runaways made camp together.One night after a bad storm, Jim and Huck saw a frame house floating down the river. Jim found a dead man inside, but warned Huck not to look at him. He said the sight was too awful. They searched for items they might could use later, and then they let the house float on down the river.Nothing exciting had happened lately, so Huck decided to go into town dressed like a girl to see if he could gather some gossip. He learned that some people in Hannibal thought Huck's Pap had killed him since he had disappeared just a few days earlier; others thought Jim did it since the two had vanished on the same day. Huck overheard a group of men talking about going to Jackson Island that night to see if they could find Jim. Huck immediately rushed back to Jim and said they had to leave right then.The two got their things together and headed down the Mississippi on a tent-covered raft. They planned to board a north-bound steamship so Jim could get money to buy his family's freedom. Although Jim was a good friend, Huck s...
