CHAPTER IX.
DICK TREMBLES AT HIS NERVE Hiram Driggs refused to accept any money for his trouble in raising the canoe.
"I won't charge you anything, unless upsetting your craft becomes a troublesome habit," the boat builder declared.

"Remember, I'm a big winner on our birch bark trade." Within the next four days all of the girls invited had been able to take a trip up the river and back.
By this time Dick & Co.

had fully acquired the mastery of their canoe.

They had had no more upsets, for "Big Chief Prescott," of this new Gridley tribe of young Indians, had succeeded in putting through some rules governing their conduct when the chums were out in their canoe.

One of these rules was that no one should change his position in the craft except the steersman at the stern.
Others would not look about at a hail unless informed by the steersman that they might do so.
Not by any means did Dick do all the steering of the craft.