Chapter 5: The Last Voyage of the Snail

In this chapter, Hugh and Jim make a model sailboat out of a wooden box and a piece of cloth and sail it down a  flooded stream. Marah finds out and shows them some model sailboats that looked very realistic and even have model cannons. Hugh, Jim, and Marah then take turns shooting at the boat that Hugh and Jim made, the Snail. In this chapter, Marah seems to be a nice person, but he is very firm about getting people to do what he says.