Huckleberry Finn - Chapters 2 & 3

CHAPTER II & III

The Boys Escape Jim — Tom Sawyer's Gang — Deep-laid Plans

We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise.  We scrouched down and laid still.  Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him.