Huck only fished and hunted with pap's gun. but then he started to get bored , he decided to explore the island at first he saw nothing but birds and a snake , he started following the snake and suddenly he tripped over a man who lay fast asleep on the ground .
the boy tuned to run , but the man sat up and huck saw his face : jim , he cried out
Jim: please don't hurt me, i would never harm a ghost , huck laughed , but i'm not a ghost . was perfectly happy , he had friend with him . Jim cried huck , he was schocked , it was a crime for a slave to run away from his owner . , jim told huck his story . i decided to go to the free states in the north there i can work and earn enough money to buy my family out of slavery , i slipped away one evening when the widow was open , and nobody else was in the house .
In the meantime , jim and huck passed the time as they pleased . sometimes they lay back on the raft and watched the stars . Often they talked , sometime huck read to jim out of the books they found in the floating house . He read to him about kings , and princes , and dukes , and how they wore beautiful clothes , and called each other your Majesty , and your highness and lived in palaces. Huck told him , that would steal a chicken or some vegetables from a plantation , once when he was on one of these adventures Huck found a snake skin .he picked it up to show it to jim.
jim was very worried , so huck threw the skin away . but the felt a little annoyed .
CHAPTER 6
huck bought a snake to accompany him in his trip , while he seal by the river in canoe , after across the way , it got fog. Jim and Huck got lost of the way and they can't find , this was imposible. The night passed and in the course of the night they came to the island where jim was. Huck wonted to do a trick to jim, jim thought huck was dead , because the canoa was smashed .Jim wakes up and then he thinks was dead , but huck was alive and safe .
Huck hurt to jim because, Huck's very important to jim to his life , jim cry because he felt huck joke him , and Huck asked to jim a apologize .
CHAPTER 7
Im and Huck to reach cairo, because jim there would be a free , huck starts to think that would accomplice. because helping a slave to escape was a bad idea, nevertheless, Jim thank to Huck , because none person treated him so well . There's another town , but It wasn't the city what we search ,but on his ways two men on a boat stopped him , the men asked , are there any men on that raft?. Huck saids , yes , there is a white man , the men asked , if we go see for ourselves . for verify if is truth . Huck pretends that Pap has smallpox the men amazing and decided not approach,the men gaves forty dollars , for that to leave from there.
CHAPTER 8
they discovered something, they were far from cairo ,, too ,,somebody stole their canoe while they were asleep. And Huck said , they have the forty dollars , they can buy another canoa . After the night clouds covered the moon and the stars and it became very dark., in the middle of the night a steamboat came up the river towards them and it headeb straight for the raft .just before it hit them , huck dive off one side of the raft and jim off the other .the current very strong , Huck he couldn't see jim anywhere, was he ashore somewhere else , or maybe dead ? but he while he met a boy about his age , the boy said : that has seen a black slave around , he's about down at the phelps' platation , he is here . Huck helps a jim , immediately felt better .
GLOSSARY
steamboat : buque de vapor
suddenly :de repente
lay :poner
fast : talar
fell: pertenecer
belong :pertenecer
sure:seguro
trick : truco
later más tarde
owner : propietario
anyway : de todos modos
evening :tarde
nobody: don nadie
cried :grito
caught :capturado
blankets :mantas
supplies :suministro
shelter: abrigo
lantern : linterna
soil: suelo
highness :altura
kings : reyes
horrified : horrorizado
brings : trae
threw: arrojo
hardly : apenas
getting : conseguir
raft : balsa
behind : detrás
paddled : remado
loudly : en voz alta
shining : brillante
towards : hacia
stream : corriente
branches : ramas
been :sido
meaning :significado
stuff: cosas
rubbish : basuras
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