Passage:
"'Now,' says the duke, 'after to-night we can run in the daytime if we want to. Whenever we see anybody coming, we can tie Jim hand and foot wit ha rope, and lay him in the wigman and show this handbill and say we captured him up the river, and were too poor to travel on steamboat, so we got this little raft on credit from our friends and are going to get the reward.'"
Pages:
87
Comments and Response:
It seems that there is finally a character that matches Huck Finn in cunning nature. The person speaking in this passage is the Duke of Bridgewater, who is probably not the actual duke which Huck Finn has commented on himself. He uses his cunning to think of a plan so that Huck, Jim, the dauphin, and himself can travel through the daytime and not worry about people stopping them for a runaway slave. The plan that he thought was on the fly and something that I honestly believed only the character of Huck Finn was capable of doing.
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