"It took fifteen minutes before I could get ready to go and humiliate myself into a slave; but I did it, and I never regretted it afterwards. I never Played more tricks on him, and I wouldn't have done it if I knew it would make him feel that way." (pg. 86) In this scene, Huck plays a prank on Jim after they separate. Huck finds Jim while he is sleeping, so he lies down on the raft and pretends that the separation never happened. When Jim wakes up, Huck manages to convince him, for a while, that he dreamed it all. Once Jim discovers that he has been deceived, he becomes angry at Huck and isolates himself in the Wigwam. Huck manages to apologize to him even though he is black. This shows that Huck is slowly overcoming the issue of race and begins to see Jim as a person rather than a