While Jim is asleep Huck finds a snake and kills it. He then puts it by Jim's foot so that when he wakes up he will think there is a real snake there. However, Huck forgot that when a snake's mate dies the other will find it and curl around it. This is what happened, which resulted in Jim being bitten by the dead snake's mate.
Jim is known for having knowledge of all sorts of superstitions that usually deal with bad luck. Earlier, Huck had touched a snake's skin that it had shed which, according to Jim, was bad luck. Huck doesn't really like these supersttitions because shortly after touching the skin he has good luck. This is why he plays this trick on Jim. He didn't trick him before because he thought it to be the right time.
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