But this ain't that kind of a river.

They have started in here with big confidence, and the best intentions in the world; but they are going to get left.

What does Ecclesiastes vii.

13 say?
Says enough to knock THEIR little game galley-west, don't it?
Now you look at their methods once.

There at Devil's Island, in the Upper River, they wanted the water to go one way, the water wanted to go another.