It was the raft.
? ? ? ? When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering oar. The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. So she'd had a rough time.
? ? ? ? I made fast and laid down under Jim's nose on the raft, and begun to gap, and stretch my fists out against Jim, and says:
? ? ? ? "Hello, Jim, have I been asleep? Why didn't you stir me up?"
? ? ? ? "Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain' dead- you ain'drownded- you's back again? It's too good for true, honey, it's too good for true. Lemme look at you, chile, lemme feel o' you. No, you ain' dead! you's back again, 'live en soun', jis de same ole Huck- de same ole Huck, thanks to goodness!"
? ? ? ? "What's the matter with you, Jim? You been a drinking?"
? ? ? ? "Drinkin'? Has I ben a drinkin'? Has I had a chance to be a drinkin'?"
? ? ? ? "Well, then, what makes you talk so wild?"
? ? ? ? "How does I talk wild?"
? ? ? ? "How? why, hain't you been talking about my coming back, and all that stuff, as if I'd been gone away?"
? ? ? ? "Huck- Huck Finn, you look me in de eye; look me in de eye.
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