Part 18 (2/2)

”I've just thought of souess I' What's the game, Frank?”

”Why not let Reddy and his reliable old rope co or buy that clothesline fro it up in our clubroom, as the most valuable asset we have Without it ould become of us, eh? Talk about your trained nurses! That fellow is a whole hospital to the tenderfoot crowd

Call to him, please, and enlist his sy us in out of the wet”

So Frank did shout to the cowboy, who, having beached the two boats below the rapids, was hurrying up the shore Mr Mabie, too, had joined Will, so that presently the entire balance of the little party had gathered opposite

Reddy entered into the gaic occurrences ive hi his rope

”Jerry first, please!” called Frank

”And why? Is it because I'?” de how you look as you flounder through the rapids; and then, again, I may pick up a few points as to how _not_ to do it”

”Tell me about that, will you! Some people have all the nerve!” shouted Jerry, for the rushi+ng water made so much noise that an ordinary call could not have been heard

Nevertheless, he accepted the flying noose that caht toward hiun was still fast to his back, and then fearlessly dropped off his perch

There was considerable floundering on the part of the swi the others who manipulated the rope, after which Jerry was assisted up the bank His first act, after coughing up a lot of water, was to shake his fist at the grinning Frank, and then call out:

”Now you come on, and see how you like it!”

Frank did not wait upon the order of his going As soon as he had the rope secured under his aran to buffet the current like a water spaniel

After an exciting experience he, too, was drawn ashore, really none the worse for his adventure

”Shake hands, Frank You did nobly I h,” said Jerry, but the look in his eyes told how he had enjoyed seeing his chuh the same experience

A fire was ht dry off Meanwhile, Mr

Mabie and Will succeeded in successfully shooting the rapids, though the latter ise enough to leave his precious camera in the care of Bluff

As noon found the the water journey Below the fierce rapids the current was still swift, but there were places where the streah the leaves lookedthe suns of smoke below

”The boys have arrived ahead of us,” said Mr Mabie, pointing to the wreaths that ascended above the trees

”All on account of our mishap We lost three hours that way,” remarked Frank, who felt a little provoked over the accident, since he aspired to be a capable canoes will happen to the best of guides at times,” consoled the stockman ”I've often been in the drink myself There are some cross-currents in our rapids, that one can only learn by experience I rather expected you would go over, and instructed Reddy to be on the watch below”

”I wager I wouldn't get caught in that saain, sir,” asserted Frank

”And I'm sure you wouldn't, lad Experience is the best teacher, and if we didn't have sorow too confident”