1 The island was three mile long.
2 Well, by this time I was most down to the foot of the island.
3 But the next day I went exploring around down through the island.
4 The boat floated on and went out of sight around the shoulder of the island.
5 The water was three or four foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom.
6 Jackson's Island is good enough for me; I know that island pretty well, and nobody ever comes there.
7 Jackson's Island is good enough for me; I know that island pretty well, and nobody ever comes there.
8 Well, I went fooling along in the deep woods till I judged I warn't far from the foot of the island.
9 I changed to the Illinois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warn't disappointed.
10 When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to the town.
11 They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went.
12 By and by I says to myself, I can't live this way; I'm a-going to find out who it is that's here on the island with me; I'll find it out or bust.
13 Jim said if we had the canoe hid in a good place, and had all the traps in the cavern, we could rush there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without dogs.
14 A few days ago I was talking with an old couple that lives next door in the log shanty, and they happened to say hardly anybody ever goes to that island over yonder that they call Jackson's Island.
15 I rose up, and there was Jackson's Island, about two mile and a half down stream, heavy timbered and standing up out of the middle of the river, big and dark and solid, like a steamboat without any lights.
16 I went up and set down on a log at the head of the island, and looked out on the big river and the black driftwood and away over to the town, three mile away, where there was three or four lights twinkling.
17 I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that I'd found when I was exploring; so we started and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.
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