"Climb in." "It isn't for myself I'm asking," he said.

"There's a lady here that wants to ride in a covered wagon, and sit back where she can't see the water.

It makes her dizzy--and scares her awfully; can you take her ?" "If she can ride back there on the bed," said I.
He peeped in, and said that this was the very place for her.

She could lie down and cover up her head and never know she was crossing the river at all.

In a minute, and while it was still twilight, just as the ferry-boat came to the landing, he returned with the lady.