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1It 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
2a 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
3didn'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
4ruther too much of a sweat to think of so many things. It warn't good judgment to put everything on the raft. If the men
5went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. Anyways,
6they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine. I played it as low
7down on them as I could. When the first streak of day began to show we tied up to a tow-head in a big bend on the
8Illinois side, and hacked off cottonwood branches with the hatchet, and covered up the raft with them so she looked like
9there had been a cave-in in the bank there. A tow-head is a sandbar that has cottonwoods on it as thick as harrow-teeth.
10We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri
11shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us. We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and
12steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up-bound steamboats fight the big river in the middle. I told Jim all about
13the time I had jabbering with that woman; and Jim said she was a smart one, and if she was to start after us herself she
14wouldn't set down and watch a camp fire--no, sir, she'd fetch a dog. Well, then, I said, why couldn't she tell her
15husband to fetch a dog? Jim said he bet she did think of it by the time the men was ready to start, and he believed they
16must a gone up-town to get a dog and so they lost all that time, or else we wouldn't be here on a tow-head sixteen or
17seventeen mile below the village--no, indeedy, we would be in that same old town again. So I said I didn't care what was
18the reason they didn't get us as long as they didn't. When it was beginning to come on dark we poked our heads out of
19the cottonwood thicket, and looked up and down and across; nothing in sight; so Jim took up some of the top planks of
20the raft and built a snug wigwam to get under in blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the things dry. Jim made a floor
21for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out
22of reach of steamboat waves. Right in the middle of the wigwam we made a layer of dirt about five or six inches deep
23with a frame around it for to hold it to its place; this was to build a fire on in sloppy weather or chilly; the wigwam
24would keep it from being seen. We made an extra steering-oar, too, because one of the others might get broke on a snag
25or something. We fixed up a short forked stick to hang the old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern
26whenever we see a steamboat coming down-stream, to keep from getting run over; but we wouldn't have to light it for
27up-stream boats unless we see we was in what they call a "crossing"; for the river was pretty high yet, very low banks
28being still a little under water; so up-bound boats didn't always run the channel, but hunted easy water. This second
29night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour. We catched fish and
30talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still
31river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that
32we laughed--only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever
33happened to us at all--that night, nor the next, nor the next. Every night we passed towns, some of them away up on
34black hillsides, nothing but just a shiny bed of lights; not a house could you see. The fifth night we passed St. Louis,
35and it was like the whole world lit up. In St. Petersburg they used to say there was twenty or thirty thousand people in
36St. Louis, but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o'clock that still night. There
37warn't a sound there; everybody was asleep. Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o'clock at some little
38village, and buy ten or fifteen cents' worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lifted a chicken
39that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if
40you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see pap
41when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway. Mornings before daylight I slipped
42into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap
43always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it
44warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly
45right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we
46wouldn't borrow them any more--then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others. So we talked it over all
47one night, drifting along down the river, trying to make up our minds whether to drop the watermelons, or the
48cantelopes, or the mushmelons, or what. But towards daylight we got it all settled satisfactory, and concluded to drop
49crabapples and p'simmons. We warn't feeling just right before that, but it was all comfortable now. I was glad the way
50it come out, too, because crabapples ain't ever good, and the p'simmons wouldn't be ripe for two or three months yet. We
51shot a water-fowl, now and, then that got up too early in the morning or didn't go to bed early enough in the evening.
52Take it all round, we lived pretty high. The fifth night below St. Louis we had a big storm after midnight, with a power
53of thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in a solid sheet. We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care
54of itself. When the lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides.
55By-and-by says I, "Hel-lo, Jim, looky yonder!" It was a steamboat that had killed herself on a rock. We was drifting
56straight down for her. The lightning showed her very distinct. She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above
57water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat
58hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come. Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so
59mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and
60lonesome in the middle of the river. I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was
61there. So I says: "Le's land on her, Jim." But Jim was dead against it at first. He says: "I doan' want to go fool'n
62'long er no wrack. We's doin' blame' well, en we better let blame' well alone, as de good book says. Like as not dey's a
63watchman on dat wrack."
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