MUST a been close onto one o'clock
when we got below the island at last,
and the raft did seem to go mighty slow.
If boat was to come along, we was
going to takc to the canoe and break for
the Illinois shore ; and it was well boat
didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought
to put the gun into the canoe, or a fish-
ing-line Or anything to eat. We Was in
ruther too much of a sweat to think of
so many things. It warn't good judg-
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