Jim’s Perspective All of a sudden I woke up to someone saying hello and I jumped up and turned around to see who was on the island with me. To my surprise I saw Huckleberry Finn, thinking that he was dead i dropped to my knees and said “don’ hurt me dont’t! I ha in’t ever done no harm to a ghost’. I liked dead people, en done all i could for ’em. You go en git in de river ag ” in, what you b’longs, en don’ do to Ole Jim, ‘at ‘uz ‘ free’.” Then Huck explained to me what had happened to him and am de me understand he was alive and not a ghost. After Huck says “It’s good daylight. Le’s get breakfast.
Make up your campfire good.”What’s de use er mak in up de camp-fire to cook sich truck? but you got a gun, ha in’t you? Den we kin git sum fn better then straw bries.” I said. “Strawberries and such truck,” he said. “is that what you live on?” I could ” nt get else,”Why how long you been on the island Jim?”I came heah de night after you’s killed.”What, all that time”Yes indeed”And you ain’t had nothing but that kind of to eat?” No sah else”Well you must be starved ain’t you?”I reck; n i could eat a hos s. I think I could. How long you ben on de is lan’?”Since the night I got killed.”No W’y, what has you lived on? But you got a gun.
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Oh, yes. you got a gun. Dat’s good. Now you kill sum fn en I’ll make up de fire.” So we went over to where the canoe was, and while I built the fire in a grassy open place amongst the trees, Huck went off and fetched a meal and bacon and coffee, and coffee-pot and frying pan and sugar and tin cups, and I was set back considerable because I reckoned it was all done with witchcraft. He caught a good big catfish and I cleaned him with my knife and fried him. When breakfast was ready welled on the grass and eat it smoking hot.
I laid it in all my might, because i was most starved. Then we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied. By and by I said: ” But look here, Huck who wu it dat ‘us killed in dat shanty ef it want you?” Then he explained to me th whole thing and I told him it was smart. I told him Tom Sawyer couldn’t get up no better plan then what he had.” Than Huck says: Howto you come to be here Jim, and how’d you get here?” I sat there for a second and didnt say anything. Then I said:” Mabe y i better not tell.”Why, Jim?”Well, dey’s reasons. But you would ” nt tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?”Blamed if i would Jim.”Well, I b’live you, Huck.
I I run off.”Jim!”But you mind, you said you would ” nt tell you know you said you would’ tell, Huck.”Well I did. I said I would ” nt, and I’ll stick to it. Honest injun. I will.
People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum, but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le ” know all about it” Well, you see, it uz dis way. Ole missus dat’s Miss Watson, she pecks on me all de time, en treats me potty rough, but she aw luz said she wouldn’t sell me down to Orleans. But i noticed dey wu a nigger trader round de place considerably lately, en I begin to get uneasy.
Well, one night I creeps to de do’ potty late, en de do’ warn’t, en I hear old missus tell de wider she gwyn e to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn’t want to, but she could could git eight hand’d dollars for me, en it ‘uz sich a big stack o’ money she could’ res is’. De wider she try to get her to say she wouldn’t do it, but I never waited to hear de res’. I lit out mighty quick, I tell you.
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