"Then Jim manned the oars, and we took out after our raft. Now was the first time that I begun to worry about the men--I reckon I hadn't had time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain't no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself, yet, and then how would I like it? So says I to Jim: 'The first light we see, we'll see land a hundred yards below it or above it, in a place where it's a good hiding-place for you and the skiff, and then I 'll go and fix up some kind of a yarn, and get somebody to go for the that gang and get them out of their scrape, so they can be hung when their time comes.'"
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Comments and Response:
This is further development of the character that is Huck Finn, which shows him to still to be a little boy and a person who respect justice. He is concerned about leaving the murderers on the boat to drown so he makes plans to arrange for their rescue, but wants them to go to jail so that they can be hung for their crimes. I find this interesting because I am pretty sure that most people would not voice something like, "so they can hung when their time comes." I am pretty sure most people would just say that they should go to jail.
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