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??Then here comes the ferry-boat; so I shoved for the middle of the river

on a long down-stream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach, I

laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck

for Miss Hooker's remainders, because the captain would know her uncle

Hornback would want them; and then pretty soon the ferry-boat give it up

and went for shore, and I laid into my work and went a-booming down the river.

It did seem a powerful long time before Jim's light showed up; and when it

did show, it looked like it was a thousand mile off. By the time I got there the

sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an island,

and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people.

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