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Article: Huck and Jim on the river: in Mark Twain's famous novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, young Huck Finn and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, travel down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft. Read what Huck has to say about the pleasures of life on the river.(Reading Corner)(Excerpt)
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- April 1, 2005
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Sometimes we'd have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time. Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark--which was a candle in a cabin window--and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two--on a raft or a scow you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming from one of them crafts. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether was made, or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could ...
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Article: Huckleberry Finn
Dictionary of American History;
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... ... by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. … All American ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885 ... libraries to ban the book. Huckleberry Finn was first attacked ... down the Mississippi River, where Huck gradually ...
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