The flood led to its discovery. What did Huck and Jim do on the raft? In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the raft is one of the only objects that stays with Huck and Jim for long periods of time. The ...

Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note ... When me and the king and the duke got home to the raft we all had a supper; and by and by, about midnight ...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.