Trick on Jim

Since Huck and Jim had met up with each other on Jackson’s Island, they were becoming closer as friends than what they had been before. Before, Huck and Jim did not know each other very well, and they definitely were not good enough friends to play tricks on one another. However, they bonded while on Jackson’s Island and began to become closer friends.

While on Jackson’s Island, Jim had continually been pestering Huck about several different myths that were bad luck. One of those myths was that a person would have the worst kind of bad luck if he or she touched a snake-skin with their bare hands. Huck was saying how he touched a snake-skin with his bare hands a couple of days before and nothing bad had happened yet. Then, one day, Huck came across a rattlesnake and decided to play a joke on Jim. Huck killed the rattlesnake and curled him up on the foot of Jim’s bed. Later, Jim flung himself onto his bed, however, the snake’s mate was on the bed as well because apparently if you leave a dead snake, the mate comes and curls itself around it. The dead snake’s mate bit Jim, and Jim jumped out of the bed. The snake bit Jim again on his heel. Huck felt poorly about the “joke,” but it only proved that Jim was right about the myth of touching a dead snake-skin with bare hands.