Huck Finn 2: pg 46-88

“I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain’t no time to be fooling around” (50). Brash- impertinent; impudent; tactless

“There was two old dirty calico dresses” (61). Calico- a plain-woven cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern, usually on one side. 

"I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it had gone and done it.  So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing.  That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind"(48). 

• Huck is very happy that he has found the bread floating down the river and believes the “right kind” (48) of person must have prayed for it.  He is still torn between good and bad pray, and he thinks pray is not for him.  He believes if a good person prays for something they will get it, and that he would not get what he prays for.  His ideas about prayer are changing because in the beginning of the novel he believes that there is nothing in prayer for him, but now he just thinks he is not the right kind of person.  This idea is better than believing he is the completely wrong type of person for prayer, and he never rules out becoming that type of person.  Huck just needs to realize anyone can pray because he may need to turn to pray during difficult times later in the novel.
  

"Jim knowed all kinds of signs.  He said he knowed most of everything" (56). 

• In this quote we see how Huck views Jim’s knowledge of superstitions.  Jim’s knowledge plays a continuous role in the story.  It is an ongoing theme.  Jim’s superstitions foreshadow events that are going to happen.  So far his superstitions have been correct.  His superstitions about the rattlesnake are a great example.  He told Huck that it was bad luck to touch the skin.  As a joke, Huck put the skin next to Jim and Jim was bit by a rattlesnake.  We should pay close attention to what Jim says throughout the rest of the story because it will most likely foreshadow what is to happen.