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1When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. Then he
2comprehended. It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm
3and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation. Beaded dewdrops stood
4upon the leaves and grasses. A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into
5the air. Joe and Huck still slept. Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering
6of a woodpecker was heard. Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and
7life manifested itself. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy. A
8little green worm came crawling over a dewy leaf, lifting two-thirds of his body into the air from time to time and
9"sniffing around," then proceeding again--for he was measuring, Tom said; and when the worm approached him, of its own
10accord, he sat as still as a stone, with his hopes rising and falling, by turns, as the creature still came toward him
11or seemed inclined to go elsewhere; and when at last it considered a painful moment with its curved body in the air and
12then came decisively down upon Tom's leg and began a journey over him, his whole heart was glad--for that meant that he
13was going to have a new suit of clothes--without the shadow of a doubt a gaudy piratical uniform. Now a procession of
14ants appeared, from nowhere in particular, and went about their labors; one struggled manfully by with a dead spider
15five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk. A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the
16dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is
17on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it--which did not surprise the boy, for he
18knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than
19once. A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against
20its body and pretend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a
21tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept
22down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed
23the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along,
24sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being
25before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not. All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of
26sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. Tom
27stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing
28after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar. They felt no longing for the little
29village sleeping in the distance beyond the majestic waste of water. A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had
30carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them
31and civilization. They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the
32camp-fire blazing up again. Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or
33hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wildwood charm as that, would be a good enough substitute for
34coffee. While Joe was slicing bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck asked him to hold on a minute; they stepped to a
35promising nook in the river-bank and threw in their lines; almost immediately they had reward. Joe had not had time to
36get impatient before they were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a small catfish--provisions
37enough for quite a family. They fried the fish with the bacon, and were astonished; for no fish had ever seemed so
38delicious before. They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he
39is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of
40hunger make, too. They lay around in the shade, after breakfast, while Huck had a smoke, and then went off through the
41woods on an exploring expedition. They tramped gayly along, over decaying logs, through tangled underbrush, among solemn
42monarchs of the forest, hung from their crowns to the ground with a drooping regalia of grape-vines. Now and then they
43came upon snug nooks carpeted with grass and jeweled with flowers. They found plenty of things to be delighted with, but
44nothing to be astonished at. They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide,
45and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. They
46took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp. They were too
47hungry to stop to fish, but they fared sumptuously upon cold ham, and then threw themselves down in the shade to talk.
48But the talk soon began to drag, and then died. The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of
49loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys. They fell to thinking. A sort of undefined longing crept upon
50them. This took dim shape, presently--it was budding homesickness. Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his
51doorsteps and empty hogsheads. But they were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to speak his
52thought. For some time, now, the boys had been dully conscious of a peculiar sound in the distance, just as one
53sometimes is of the ticking of a clock which he takes no distinct note of. But now this mysterious sound became more
54pronounced, and forced a recognition. The boys started, glanced at each other, and then each assumed a listening
55attitude. There was a long silence, profound and unbroken; then a deep, sullen boom came floating down out of the
56distance. "What is it!" exclaimed Joe, under his breath. "I wonder," said Tom in a whisper. "'Tain't thunder," said
57Huckleberry, in an awed tone, "becuz thunder--" "Hark!" said Tom. "Listen--don't talk." They waited a time that seemed
58an age, and then the same muffled boom troubled the solemn hush. "Let's go and see." They sprang to their feet and
59hurried to the shore toward the town. They parted the bushes on the bank and peered out over the water. The little steam
60ferry-boat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current. Her broad deck seemed crowded with people.
61There were a great many skiffs rowing about or floating with the stream in the neighborhood of the ferryboat, but the
62boys could not determine what the men in them were doing. Presently a great jet of white smoke burst from the
63ferryboat's side, and as it expanded and rose in a lazy cloud, that same dull throb of sound was borne to the listeners
64again. "I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded!" "That's it!" said Huck; "they done that last summer, when
65Bill Turner got drownded; they shoot a cannon over the water, and that makes him come up to the top. Yes, and they take
66loaves of bread and put quicksilver in 'em and set 'em afloat, and wherever there's anybody that's drownded, they'll
67float right there and stop." "Yes, I've heard about that," said Joe. "I wonder what makes the bread do that." "Oh, it
68ain't the bread, so much," said Tom; "I reckon it's mostly what they say over it before they start it out." "But they
69don't say anything over it," said Huck. "I've seen 'em and they don't." "Well, that's funny," said Tom. "But maybe they
70say it to themselves. Of course they do. Anybody might know that."
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