Evening star., 1918-08-04


page. You feel as II you ought to do
something to stop It. and you know you
can.t-that nobody can. When IL gets
going it Is going to keep right on. SO
we went down to the levee:
levee is JUS. a long dpwn-hiil Of sand.
and 1t wasn't. there. The river had
backed clean up, to the railroad tracks
and was .spioshing against the second
rail Of the outside track, and At the
goile.under the tracks and was all over
Front street at the corner. The ferry
dock. that was usually away down at
the bottom Of the levee. was tied right
up close to the railroad track. and the
ferry was tied In behind the steamboat
warehouse, so she wouldn't wash away.
The water was clean up over the door
of the steamboat warehouse, toe. and
nothing looked the way 1t used to look.
It was worth forty iickings Just to see see
stood and looked and couldn't be-
Come on. said swatty, all at once.
'lets have some fun. Let's take on our
fun
We went across the street and
asked q man II we could leave our
shoes and stockings in his store, and
he said we could. and then We went
back and began to wade where the
water wasn't very deep. There were
q few other boys there, wading, and
q lot Of men standing around. looking
at the water. Some would come down
and look awhile and then go away
.'GarshI What II our fathers came
down here"
So we got away from there quick.
We went down below the steamboat
warehouse. where the ferryboat was
tied. because nobody was apt to come
down there, and nobody did. We
played on the ferryboat awhile and
then we got OF her and Swafty saw
where4somebody had fastened q lot OF
logs and bridge timbers to- the rail
way track. / guess they were stun
some men had gone out in skiffs to
catch as they noated by. before the
river got so rampageous. The way
they fastened them was to drive .
that. and then tie the other end % the
railway track. So .Swatty- said:
Come ont Let's have some fun with
these. logs and bridge timbers," or
sonething IKE that so We did. We
would sink ks,under us, and then we
would jump to another. =.
Well. there below the steamboat
warehouse the water made an eddy.
and the bark and, foam and some
in the EDDY. and pretty soon swatty
said, Lets ride on these logs. and
that ,w3s, all right. too, because we
could sit straadle Of, q log. or 4 bridge
timber and paddle with oursfest So
we did that Swatty, cut three of
them loose. and We each took, 3 bridge
Timber. because they dtdn't turn over
like the -Iogs did. Ind we. paddlsd
around f1 the eddy and played we
were steamboats,. WIS the War
Eagle. and SwattS was the Mary Nor
ton, and Bony was the Centennial We
played that = long time and then we
took boards for paddles, and we could
go better that way,-eo we played
Indians IN canoes, and + got Z on
Swatty.s timber and let 70 ,mire; which
was an right because the ttmbers
would Just go around and afound In
the eddy. But Hony Wouldn't get on
with usr because he was Sfraid the
timber:wpu3d siIIk.
It lot along to about FIVE O'Clock
and Rony said va had better 20 hosne,
He was always the drst to W3nt to 70
home He told Swatty. that Gwatfy
would. be Mte going fof5 his COW if he
; didn't start right away, but Hwatty
said he didn't ~cake 81 the cid COW
never: got home: He sAid -tt Weuldh't t
hurt the old COW. t0,EAft awhile aay-
way. 90 :we startAd to- f,aAdle: around
the eddy again. anA that time we got