1 He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern.
2 A minute or two later the skiff's head was standing high up, against the boat's swell, and the voyage was begun.
3 He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream.
4 Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.
5 Huck, I'll take you right to it in a skiff.
6 I'll float the skiff down there, and I'll pull it back again all by myself.
7 A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent, and got under way at once.
8 They presently emerged into the clump of sumach bushes, looked warily out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunching and smoking in the skiff.
9 So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
10 The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got.
11 I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest.
12 We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore.
13 So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three.
14 The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck.
15 Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped.