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1They asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the
2daytime instead of running--was Jim a runaway nigger? Says I: "Goodness sakes, would a runaway nigger run south?" No,
3they allowed he wouldn't. I had to account for things some way, so I says: "My folks was living in Pike County, in
4Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and pa and my brother Ike. Pa, he 'lowed he'd break up and go
5down and live with Uncle Ben, who's got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans. Pa was
6pretty poor, and had some debts; so when he'd squared up there warn't nothing left but sixteen dollars and our nigger,
7Jim. That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way. Well, when the river rose pa
8had a streak of luck one day; he ketched this piece of a raft; so we reckoned we'd go down to Orleans on it. Pa's luck
9didn't hold out; a steamboat run over the forrard corner of the raft one night, and we all went overboard and dove under
10the wheel; Jim and me come up all right, but pa was drunk, and Ike was only four years old, so they never come up no
11more. Well, for the next day or two we had considerable trouble, because people was always coming out in skiffs and
12trying to take Jim away from me, saying they believed he was a runaway nigger. We don't run daytimes no more now; nights
13they don't bother us." The duke says: "Leave me alone to cipher out a way so we can run in the daytime if we want to.
14I'll think the thing over--I'll invent a plan that'll fix it. We'll let it alone for to-day, because of course we don't
15want to go by that town yonder in daylight--it mightn't be healthy." Towards night it begun to darken up and look like
16rain; the heat lightning was squirting around low down in the sky, and the leaves was beginning to shiver--it was going
17to be pretty ugly, it was easy to see that. So the duke and the king went to overhauling our wigwam, to see what the
18beds was like. My bed was a straw tick better than Jim's, which was a corn-shuck tick; there's always cobs around about
19in a shuck tick, and they poke into you and hurt; and when you roll over the dry shucks sound like you was rolling over
20in a pile of dead leaves; it makes such a rustling that you wake up. Well, the duke allowed he would take my bed; but
21the king allowed he wouldn't. He says: "I should a reckoned the difference in rank would a sejested to you that a
22corn-shuck bed warn't just fitten for me to sleep on. Your Grace'll take the shuck bed yourself." Jim and me was in a
23sweat again for a minute, being afraid there was going to be some more trouble amongst them; so we was pretty glad when
24the duke says: "'Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression. Misfortune has broken
25my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; 'tis my fate. I am alone in the world--let me suffer; I can bear it." We got
26away as soon as it was good and dark. The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a
27light till we got a long ways below the town. We come in sight of the little bunch of lights by-and-by--that was the
28town, you know--and slid by, about a half a mile out, all right. When we was three-quarters of a mile below we hoisted
29up our signal lantern; and about ten o'clock it come on to rain and blow and thunder and lighten like everything; so the
30king told us to both stay on watch till the weather got better; then him and the duke crawled into the wigwam and turned
31in for the night. It was my watch below till twelve, but I wouldn't a turned in anyway if I'd had a bed, because a body
32don't see such a storm as that every day in the week, not by a long sight. My souls, how the wind did scream along! And
33every second or two there'd come a glare that lit up the white-caps for a half a mile around, and you'd see the islands
34looking dusty through the rain, and the trees thrashing around in the wind; then comes a h-whack!--bum! bum!
35bumble-umble-um-bum-bum-bum-bum--and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit--and then rip comes
36another flash and another sockdolager. The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and
37didn't mind. We didn't have no trouble about snags; the lightning was glaring and flittering around so constant that we
38could see them plenty soon enough to throw her head this way or that and miss them. I had the middle watch, you know,
39but I was pretty sleepy by that time, so Jim he said he would stand the first half of it for me; he was always mighty
40good that way, Jim was. I crawled into the wigwam, but the king and the duke had their legs sprawled around so there
41warn't no show for me; so I laid outside--I didn't mind the rain, because it was warm, and the waves warn't running so
42high now. About two they come up again, though, and Jim was going to call me; but he changed his mind, because he
43reckoned they warn't high enough yet to do any harm; but he was mistaken about that, for pretty soon all of a sudden
44along comes a regular ripper and washed me overboard. It most killed Jim a-laughing. He was the easiest nigger to laugh
45that ever was, anyway. I took the watch, and Jim he laid down and snored away; and by-and-by the storm let up for good
46and all; and the first cabin-light that showed, I rousted him out and we slid the raft into hiding quarters for the day.
47The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a
48game. Then they got tired of it, and allowed they would "lay out a campaign," as they called it. The duke went down into
49his carpet-bag, and fetched up a lot of little printed bills and read them out loud. One bill said, "The celebrated Dr.
50Armand de Montalban, of Paris," would "lecture on the Science of Phrenology" at such and such a place, on the blank day
51of blank, at ten cents admission, and "furnish charts of character at twenty-five cents apiece." The duke said that was
52him. In another bill he was the "world-renowned Shakespearian tragedian, Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane, London." In
53other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a
54"divining-rod," "dissipating witch spells," and so on. By-and-by he says: "But the histrionic muse is the darling. Have
55you ever trod the boards, Royalty?" "No," says the king. "You shall, then, before you're three days older, Fallen
56Grandeur," says the duke. "The first good town we come to we'll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III. and
57the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. How does that strike you?" "I'm in, up to the hub, for anything that will pay,
58Bilgewater; but, you see, I don't know nothing about play-actin', and hain't ever seen much of it. I was too small when
59pap used to have 'em at the palace. Do you reckon you can learn me?" "Easy!" "All right. I'm jist a-freezn' for
60something fresh, anyway. Le's commence right away." So the duke he told him all about who Romeo was and who Juliet was,
61and said he was used to being Romeo, so the king could be Juliet. "But if Juliet's such a young gal, duke, my peeled
62head and my white whiskers is goin' to look oncommon odd on her, maybe." "No, don't you worry; these country jakes won't
63ever think of that. Besides, you know, you'll be in costume, and that makes all the difference in the world; Juliet's in
64a balcony, enjoying the moonlight before she goes to bed, and she's got on her night-gown and her ruffled nightcap. Here
65are the costumes for the parts."
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