As we could not go back and had no desire to break a leg, we were in trouble.

Then we spied Jack in the camp a short distance away and called to him to put a tree up for us.

Good-natured Jack, always ready to help, assumed a gruff tone and pretended he would never help us, but we knew better, and presently he threw up a long dead pine which we could reach by a short slide, and thus got to the river level.

It was now noon, and as soon as dinner was over the boats were lowered by lines past the rapid beside camp and once below this we shot on our way with a fine current, soon arriving at two moderate rapids close together, which we ran.

This brought us to a third with an ugly look, but on examination Prof.and the Major decided to run it.