So I was calculating to build one after we'd got started.

Then a raft came along, and the fellows on it must have been awfully hard up, for they offered to sell their canoe so cheap that I just had to take it.

Two dollars was all I gave for it; and though it isn't exactly--" "But what sort of a raft was it ?" anxiously interrupted Winn.
"Just an ordinary timber raft with a 'shanty' and a tent on it, and--" "You mean three 'shanties,' don't you ?" "No; one 'shanty' and a tent.

I took particular notice, because as there were only three men aboard, I wondered why the 'shanty,' which looked to be real roomy, wasn't enough." "Three men!" exclaimed Billy Brackett--"a big man, a middle-sized man, and a little man, like the bears in the story-book.

Why Winn, that's our raft, and I've been aboard it twice within the last four days." "You have! Where?
How?
Why didn't you tell me?
Where is it now ?" "Oh, I have been aboard it here and there.