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Show 4149 McDonald- D 2169 before you get into the rapids at the foot of Cataract, Curry, Farlsy and myself. I told them, I says, " If you fellows will help pull this boat up through the edge of the cataract I will show you a nice ride down." So they pulled it -- we put the line on -- they pulled it along the edge, and one of us kept prying it off, warding it off from the edge of the rocks, and finally Mid says, " You are crazy, Mac." I says, " All right, if none of you fellows get in, I will show you something." So I showed the boat in, when we got up where it wouldn't go any further, -- I shipped quite a bit of water. I was in there alone, and just using one stay oar, no other oars, let the current take me along. When I came out below, he says, " You are crazy, damn fool, damn fool." He says, " You will drown." That is as far as we went up Cataract canyon with the boat. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q You didn't drown, did you? A No, I didn't drown. They bet me five gallons of whiskey, after Mr. Brown was drowned, when we was in town there, if I went the second trip I would drown. I bet them, and used the whiskey before I started. |
