The Washington herald., 1911-05-21

sprang into the boat and gazed with horror
over its SHE, only to see my brother standing
up to his neck in the water below, and vain
y striving to pull himself up on the plat
:. 1t was but MOMENTS work to scramble
down and give him my hand. by dint Of
hard t9gging. ! finally got him on to the plat:
FORM. but Just then the chain came ont Of
the ring and the boat shot down the incline,
John was drawn along the top Of the wa
aged TO keep hold Of his hand, and, when
the boat came to standstill, got him safely
A very, badly frightened pair of boys we
were, and one of us wet to the skin; but,
1or all that, as We sank down on the thwarts
Of the rocking boat. we could not help break
ing INTO shouts Of laughter, for it was such
end. -, ~
As good luck would have it, we had put
one par OF oars into the boat before attempt-
ing to unchaim it, so we were now able to
any difficulty.
!, John climbed up for the other pair of oars,
the rudder and the lnnch, because, as he
SAID, IT there was to be any more '1ncking,
However, he got safely back, and we started
on. The warm sun soon dried Johns clothes,
and we forgot the unpleasant occurrence in
the % pleasure Of navigating the new. boat.
The mill whistles had blown for six o'clock
before we got back, and, as might have been
expected, we found, after half an hours Ia.
Dor in tugging our boat up the platform again,
and crawling out into daylight that the loft
door Of Mr. Grains mill had been locked for
This disappointment, combined with the Ia
Dor and discOmforts Of the underground pas
sage, and the treacherous slope Of the slim
perry platform: made us resolve that, although
the literary Miss Spcer might be equal to
ro,.Il l,.,
place to keep our boat before another Sat
urday came around. - =
Accordingly, on Monday AMI Tuesday we
went the rounds of the various boat houses
where we could hire our boat kept for three
dollars season. -
The boat house was situated in q narrow
slip between two docks; and no sooner had
we transported our boat thither than a new
tr'bulation stared us in the face Going down
to the lake the next Saturday morning what
shouLi we find but two coal barges abreast
IN the slip, completely filling it from dock
There was no way of getting by them;
and, IN order to get out at all, we had to give
the men who were unloading the barges Gfty
cents to carry our boat over the obstruction
and put it into the water beyond -
Forcsccng that this sort of thing would be
likely to, happen often during the season,
we annhlled our agreement with the owner
OF the boat house, and determined to keeb
our boat in a little creek which entered the
lake about a mile, south of the town. ~
We bought heavier chain and pa,llock.
and fastened our boat to a large tree stand.
ing on the bank. But alas! in less than a
week our chain was filed off and the boat
gone.
In the midst of our grief, word came that
a beat like ours had been seen in Colburn
Bay, five miles down the lake. We tramncd
d"wn there, and, sure enough, there was our
beautiful boat, muddy AMI Uttered with old
hait,eans;. heads cf fish, chips and dead
not even padlocked, while a piece of board,
rudely shaped into the semblance of a pad,