Trick on Jim

When Huck found Jim again, he was extremely happy, because now he didn't have to be lonely anymore. Jim started talking about all the bad luck Huck was getting when he was doing certain things, but Huck thought it was all nonsense, because they just found the great discovery of the house. Jim had been getting on Huck about how him keeping the rattle snake skin was going to give them lots of bad luck, and Huck didn't believe that, so he decided to trick him. He found a rattle snake, killed it, and then took the dead body, rolled it up, and put it at the end of Jim's sleeping bag. Jim went in and stood next to his sleeping bag, and the snakes mate bit him on his heel, because when rattle snakes die, their mates comes and curls around them. This caused Huck to believe that maybe they did have bad luck now, and he decided to not have a rattle snake skin again. Huck decided to play this trick on Jim this time, because he didn't have to worry about the same things as he did last time he had the opportunity to scare Jim. Last time, he was worried about Jim seeing it was him and telling on him, or all of them making to much noise and the widow would find out. In this situation, he didn't have the worry of the widow, so he could do what ever he pleased. He was never worried about actually hurting Jim, or he didn't want to do it because it was mean to do, he just didn't want to get in trouble. Also, he just thought that would be a good trick to play to have Jim not freak out about his superstitions again.