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Huck finds a rattle snake and kills it. He thinks it will be funny to curl it up and place it on Jim's blanket.
"I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim's blanket, ever so natural, thinking there'd be some fun. "(49)
The joke backfires because the rattlesnake's mate gets in Jim's blanket and bites Jim. He gets bit on the heel.