. The shadow of a gun . low the wharf of the ferry boat, completing ouroutfit of ice and necessary provisions for an absenceof a week from the city. The river below andpartly abreast of us was shut in by a boom of logsthat started from the boat and ran out many rodsinto the current, and the delight of the boys was towalk the logs and wade in the river. We were allvery busy and did not notice for a while that eitherof the boys was absent, but when the knowledge be-came known to us, Clarence, the younger, was foundsitting on one of the logs many rods out in thestream, and when told to come in he
. The shadow of a gun . low the wharf of the ferry boat, completing ouroutfit of ice and necessary provisions for an absenceof a week from the city. The river below andpartly abreast of us was shut in by a boom of logsthat started from the boat and ran out many rodsinto the current, and the delight of the boys was towalk the logs and wade in the river. We were allvery busy and did not notice for a while that eitherof the boys was absent, but when the knowledge be-came known to us, Clarence, the younger, was foundsitting on one of the logs many rods out in thestream, and when told to come in he was disinclinedto do so. However, the usual persuasion discoveredto us he had slipped off one of the logs into theriver and was now trying to dry himself in the sun-shine. He made no outcry or expressed any fear,and he looked to me very much like a New Zea-lander content to sit on his log and float away to anyshore the winds might carry him. We had a small amount due yet on the boat and PASS THE MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE, 125. The Boy Too Busy to Drown. while the fire was starting in the boiler I went tothe Rock Island Bank of Lynde & Co. 1 neverhad been in the bank before and carried no refer-ence, and merely stated I wanted to draw one hun-dred dollars on New York, and that the little vesselbuilt across the river was mine. The banker madeno objection, asked me for no references, handingme the money, and, by five oclock or thereabouts, westarted on our journey with the rapids before us. 126 GET ON WRONG SIDE OF THE RlVER. We expected to hire no skilled machinist, as thehunters we took on board had some experience, andthey soon learned to handle the boat fairly well. Ithink there were nine men of us besides Mrs. children. Among the rest we carried the twoOgden boys, James Joles, Bart Potter, JohnnyOBrien, Ike Seyberts, Charles Collins and OrmBrown, a motley crew, with no bonds to bind themfurther than the profit they expected to make andthe novelty and fun of the enterprise. Ik
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