. Roy Blakeley : lost, strayed or stolen . our ofthose to lay the tracks across when they ran theline up to town. The other three were prettyrotten, but the one that was made out of cedarwas all ngn*. The marsh kept the seams long as the hull was tight nothing could keepit down when the water rose. It would take morethan those old rusty tracks to press it under for us our car was right on it. Afterwardsthey found that the other three barges had waterin them up to the level of the water outside, andwhen the water rose it flowed right into them andthey stayed on the bottom.
. Roy Blakeley : lost, strayed or stolen . our ofthose to lay the tracks across when they ran theline up to town. The other three were prettyrotten, but the one that was made out of cedarwas all ngn*. The marsh kept the seams long as the hull was tight nothing could keepit down when the water rose. It would take morethan those old rusty tracks to press it under for us our car was right on it. Afterwardsthey found that the other three barges had waterin them up to the level of the water outside, andwhen the water rose it flowed right into them andthey stayed on the bottom. That shows whatcedar is. So you see we got our car out of the marsh allright and when something goes wrong its betternot to begin grouching till the next day—thatswhat I say. Wait a couple of days, thats if you wait a year it wont do any harm. It was a dandy bright morning and tlie tide wasjust about full. We went drifting around thebend, just as nice as could be, flopping around thisand that, and I guess we must have looked. SOME MEN THREW US A ROPE AND PULLED US Blakeley, Lost, Strayed or Stolen. Page 204 LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN 20; pretty funny from the shore. Anyway, nobodysaw us till we got to the Court House Court House lawn runs right down to theriver, and there are trees there and county jail is there, too, and the prisonerscan see the river—a lot of good it does them. Imglad Im not a convict, thats one thing. But, geewhiz, I came near to being one. The only reasonIm not one is because I didnt commit a crime. Now as we passed by there, who should wesee sprawling under a tree near the shore but thefive deserters from my patrol, Dorry Benton, BadManners, Charlie Seabury and the Warner twins. I said, Look at those five deserters, will you? The inventor wanted to know what a deserterwas. Its a fellow that eats two helpings ofdessert, I told him. Give them a call, Westy said; they dont see us. We all started shouting togethe
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