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Show l2H TilE' ADrE. V. TURES 01<1 IIUCJ{LEBERRY FI1Y. .Y . . ide. of 1n , so1neti1n s just a narrow channel betwren ; anJ . om that I coulcln~t see, I knowed was there, because 1'<1 hear i h wa ·h of the current ngain. t the old d ad brush and t ra~b i hat hung over the banks. \\Tell, I warn't long lo~ing thP whoop .. , clown a1nong. t the tow-heads; and I only tri ed to ('ha. e i..he1n a litile whil , anywny, becau e it was 'vor .. e i ha11 rhasing a .Tack-o-lant rn. You n ever knowed a sound <lodgP around . o, ancl swap plac . so C]Uic k and so much. A)IOXG THE , XAO,. I had to claw away from the bank pretty lively, four or five i i1n ' ", to ke p frmn knocking the islands out of the riv r; aiH1 so I judge<l thr raft, must be butting into the bank y ry no\\ and th n, or 1 e it would get further ahead and cl ar ont of hraring-it wa floating a little fa. t er than what I wa . ~r ell, I seen ted to be in the open river again, by-and-hy, but I couldn ~t hear no ·ign of a whoop now heres. I rrckonrcl AI LE~EP ON TilE R AJt'T. 120 .Jim had fetch d up on a snag, maybe, and it wa all up with him. I was go d and tir d, o I lai<l c1 wn in th cano and said I wouldn't both r no more. I didn't want i g to .. 1 ep, of cour e ; but I wa so sle py I couldn,t h lp it; ·o I thought I w uld tal< l ju t one little cat-nap. But I r kon it was n1or than a cat -nap, for wh n T \Yake(l A.'LEEP 0~ T ilE HAFT. up the stars ·was shinino· bright, the fog wn: all g. n .' and 1 was sp1· nn1· ng d own a b1· bc r bend t rn fir ·t • Fin~t I chdn t kn. ow where I was; I thought I was tlreamin cr; an<l wh n :lungs b gun to co1ne back to me, they se 1nccl to comP up dun nt of last week. It was a monstrous big river h rc:-, with th tall~st and the thicke<:::t kind of timber on both bank ; ju -t a ohd wall, as well as I could see by th tars. I looked away lown ti·eam, and seen a black s;eck on the water. I took out aft r it; but K |
