If anything happens,--if you get into an eddy, or for any other reason find yourselves in doubt about anything, wake me at once.

Now go to sleep." Sam took the first watch, because he wished to see, before going to sleep, that everything was likely to go well.

Then he waked Billy Bowlegs, and, surrendering the paddle to him, went to sleep.
There was no noise to disturb any one, and all the boys slept soundly, none of them more soundly than Sam, who had worked especially hard during the day, and had had a weight of responsibility upon him during the difficult voyage down the creek.

He was quietly sleeping some hours later when suddenly the boat was sharply jarred, and turned very nearly on her side, while the water could be heard surging around her bow and stern.
Sam was on his feet in a moment, and the other boys sprang up quickly.
"Who's at the oar ?" cried Sam, "and what's the matter ?" "We've got tangled in the drift, just as I told you we would," answered Jake Elliott from the bow, where he sat, paddle in hand, he being on watch at the time.
"Just as you meant that we should," answered Sam.

"You've deliberately paddled us out of the current into a drift hammock, you sneaking scoundrel," continued Sam, now thoroughly angry, seizing Jake by the shoulders, and throwing him violently into the bottom of the boat.