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. The wherry leaped ahead, refusing to turn to the right or left. The boys were evidently as well matched as their mounts, Puss and Bronc.
The boat rose and fell in the current waves, and the oars tripped and splashed in the roily crests, until there suddenly came a sharp snap, and Teddy fell backward, holding aloft the bladeless half of an oar. Reddy ceased rowing; the skiff lost headway and floated down the river.
In the confusion of the accident neither boy saw a threatening danger. In the middle of the river was the trunk of a dead cottonwood, standing at an angle of forty-five degrees, its roots firmly anchored to the bottom. The boat floated against the snag, striking amidships. Its starboard side rose, its port side lowered, the water poured over the gunwale, and in an instant Teddy was clinging to the trunk, and Reddy swimming in the boiling current. The boat hung for a moment, as if undecided whether to drop to the right or left of the snag, twisting and struggling in the fierce tide, and at last slid off astern and floated away down-stream.
A foot above the water was a large knot and a swell in the trunk of the tree. Teddy climbed above this, and sat astride of it, clasping the trunk in his arms. He was at first inclined to treat the accident with bravado, and he waved a hand above his head and shouted; but the sight of Reddy floating towards the rapids froze his utterance and paralyzed his arm.
It was plainly impossible for his comrade to swim to the shore--he was too near the dangerous fall--but he hoped he might reach the jam in the middle of its crest.
AT THE SEA-SIDE.
A Suggestion for a Summer Entertainment.
BY CAROLINE A. CREEVEY AND MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
CHARLOTTE HOWARD. GRACE EVERTON. VICTORIA MASON. HELEN SAYRES. IDA MOORE. MISS SOMMERFIELD. OLIVE BRANDON. MISS DAISY JAMES. MADGE FULLER. CAPTAIN JAKE.
By-by, babies, hushaby, Night and sleep are drawing nigh, Little birdies seek the nest, Tired lambkins drop to rest, By-by, babies, hushaby, Stars are lighting up the sky, Angels come to watch your beds; Slumber, little curly-heads.
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