How absurd! Oh, I see what you mean, but I don't think it's the same thing at all.

We can't help finding the raft, now that we know where it is, and just what it looks like." Billy Brackett only laughed at this, and then, in obedience to Sabella's call, they went down to supper.

The engine was stopped that it also might be fed, and for an hour the _Whatnot_ was allowed to drift with only Solon on deck.

Then Reward was again set to work, and until ten o'clock the unique craft spun merrily down-stream.

From that hour the engine was allowed to rest until morning; and while they drifted, the crew divided the watches of the night between them, Cap'n Cod and Winn taking one, and Billy Brackett with Solon for company the other.
At midnight Sabella had a lunch ready for the watch just coming below, as well as for the one about to turn out; and then, wrapped warmly in a blanket, she sat for an hour on the upper deck with Cap'n Cod and Winn, fascinated by the novelty of drifting down the great river at night.
The lights that twinkled here and there along the shores earlier in the evening had disappeared, and the whole world seemed asleep.