Huck Finn Dialectical Journal

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Todays reading was about Huck hiding the canoe that he found in the water.So he hid it in the vines and then his dad came out and said what was he doing he said that he fell in the water and it was hard to get out and his dad believed him.Then his dad went back to the town to get something and Huck got the stuff ready to escape he got berries and put them in a bowl to smash them and make it look like blood and spread it in the cabin then he finished cutting the hole in the wall and then he broke the door with an axe to make it look like someone broke in and attacked him and stole

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