Huckleberry Finn - Chapters 12 & 13

CHAPTER XII & XIII

Slow Navigation — Borrowing Things — Boarding the Wreck — The Plotters — Hunting for the Boat

It must a been close on to one o'clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow.  If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing-line, or anything to eat.  We was in ruther too much of a sweat to think of so many things.  It warn't good judgment to put EVERYTHING on the raft.