Come, place the canoe in here and we will keep to the near shore until we reach the bend.

There is a little fall just below this and I love to shoot it." He steadied the canoe with one hand while he held out the other to help her, but she stepped nimbly aboard without his assistance.
"Wait a moment while I catch some crickets and grasshoppers." "Gracious! What a fisherman.

Don't you know we have had frost ?" "That's so," said Alfred, abashed by her simple remark.
"But you might find some crickets under those logs," said Betty.

She laughed merrily at the awkward spectacle made by Alfred crawling over the ground, improvising a sort of trap out of his hat, and pouncing down on a poor little insect.
"Now, get in carefully, and give the canoe a push.

There, we are off," she said, taking up the paddle.
The little bark glided slowly down stream at first hugging the bank as though reluctant to trust itself to the deeper water, and then gathering headway as a few gentle strokes of the paddle swerved it into the current.