Chapters 9-13

Huck and Jim find a better place to live just in case of visitors. The place is a nice cave and when they get in Jim says he thinks there will be a storm blowing in and he was right. It rain for 5 days stright and flooded out the river. On day they saw a house floating down the river that had been washed out. They go aboard and find a man dead he had been shot in the head. The two then take some supplies and go back to their cave.
Huck is worrying about the man they found in the house and Jim tells him not because it is bad luck. Bad luck does come, Huck puts a dead rattlesnake in Jims bed and when he leaves the rattles mate comes and curls right next to it. So when Jim comes to bed he is bit by the mate. Jims legs swells for several days. After Jim gets better Huck wants to go to town to get info. the both agree Huck should disguise as a girl. When Huck goes in he finds that there is a newcomer and he thinks he will be able to trick her.
The woman lets Huck into the store. Huck says his girl name is Sarah Williams from Hookerville. The woman talks about a variety of things and then talks about Huck’s murder. She says Pap is a suspect and that some townspeople nearly killed him. Then, people began to suspect Jim because he ran away the same day Huck was killed. However they again turned against Pap after he was an acoholic. Pap left town before he could be killed and now there is a $200 reward being offered for him. Meanwhile there is a $300 bounty out for Jim. The woman says she thinks Jim is hidding on Jackson's Island because she has seen smoke over ever since the murder. Mrs. Loftus tells her husband to hunt for Jim there. He plans to go there tonight with another man. The women tricks Huck and finds out he is lying about being a girl and ask what his real name is and he tells her. Then he tells a story she then belives it. Huck finaly leaves and goes and gets Jim and they leave the Island.
When Jim and Huck leave the Island the spend sevreal night and days heading downstream. One night the come upon a wreak and Huck wants to have an adventure. So he goes on board and their are robbers on there about to kill a man.
Huck tells Jim about the robbers on the boat and they steal the robbers boat because theirs had been cut off. Huck feels sorry for what he did and so he goes and tells a ferry worker that his family is sinking on the Walter Scott and that he needed him to go them fast.