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Show lit· unlock cl th, door ancl I clean·cl out, up the riv 'r b:1nk. ! noli<:ecl 0111 pieces of li1nb: and ~n<:h thing."' floating clow11, < ncl a, sprinkling of bark; so I knowcd the ri \. r l1acl begun to ri"'e. 1 r ckoned I would have gr at titn' , now, if I wa OYer at th town. Th June ri c use<l to h ahvny lnck for me ; becaus ~ a ,'o n as that rise begiu. , her come. cord-wood floating clown, and piece of log rafts-.. on1cU1nes a dozen loo·.' torr iher; o all you have to <lo i · to catch then1 ancl ell Owm to the w od yard and the awmill. I w nt along up the bank with one rye ont for pap and t other one out for "·hat the ri~ 1night fetch along. \r )11, all at once, her ~ com s a canoe; j nst a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, ricling high lik a duck. I ~·hot head first o ff of the bank, like a frog, clot hcs a ncl all on, and struck out· for the cano . I jn. t xpPctccl thcre·cl be son1ebocly laying down in it, beca.u e people often done that io fool folk s, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out HlO 't to it they'd rai ·e up and laugh at him. Hut it warn't o thi ~ i.itn . It was a driftcanoe, snre enough , antl I clutnb in and pa<ldled her a ·hm·e. Think I, the old 1nan \Yill be glad \Yhcn he sees this-she's worth t<'n clo1lar . Bnt when f got to .·horc pap wasn't in t;ight yc·t, nncl a. I \Yas running h er i11to a little creek like a gully, all bung o\·cr with vine and \villowf;, I struck another 1<lea ; I judged I'd hide l1er good an<l then, tit en cl of taking to the wood "' "·hen I run off, l 'cl go clo\Yll th ~ ri \'Cr a bout fifty n1ile . and cfunp in one pl:icc for good, and not ha\·c such a rough time tralnping on foot. It wa: pretty clo .. c to the , hanty, and I thongl1t 1 hcnrcl 1. h old 1nan coming, aU the 1. i1nc ; bnt. l got her hid ; and then I ont and looked around a bunch of willows, aud there \va · the ol<l1nnn down the path apiece jn.t drawing a bead on a hir:l with his gnn. So h hadn't ·een anything. "\\hen he gol along, I wtv bard at it taking up a "trot" 4!1 1i n e. l [ <' a b u _. e d 1 n e a ] i tt 1 c for b ' i n g . · o ·l o \ v, b n L I t ol t l l1 i t n r fell in the river and that \Vas what l1lade llle so long. I 1\.lll)\\'(1(l ]t would . ce I was \Vet, and then h woul,l be a ·kin~ rlll (' ~ti ou;-; . 're got fiv . cat-:fi. hoff of t he lin sand\\' nt hon1 .. v\'hile we laicl off, aft l' br :-tkfn t, to . lcep np, both of U."' being about wor out, I got to thinking th at if L ronld fix np TilE 1-'11.\ ~TY . so1ne w:~y to keep pap and the wi(low fro1n trying to follow 1ne, it would be a ccrtainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before t hey n1i. . cl 1ne; yon , ec, all kind of things n1ight happen. 'yell, I dicln •t sec no ·way for a wl1ile, but by-and-by pnp rai ~ed up a 1ninutc, to drink anoLh 'r barrel of water, and he says : "Another tin1C a lll:lll COlll CS a-prowling rounu here, you E |