I found
everything I needed to set the table with, and we had canned things, and
biscuit and cheese and coffee, and lots of nice things to eat. Then I
washed the dishes (I'm real glad now, that I learned at home, for the
professor said I did it as neatly as a girl), and then he went off,
poking around with his hammer, and I fished. You don't know much about
fishing with a jack-light, do you? It's good fun. I caught enough for
breakfast, nice little perch they were, and then we lay down on our
blankets, stretched over pine-boughs in the tent, with mosquito-netting
over all the openings, and slept like two tops.
Yesterday we had lots of adventures. First thing, I woke up just in time
to save our provisions from some hogs which had smelled us out, and came
down on us in a regular drove; and they got us so wide awake we
concluded to stay up, though it wasn't really morning yet. But you don't
know how good our fried fish did taste! I ate till I was ashamed, and
then finished the bits in the spider; and I could have eaten as many
more, I guess. Then I cleared everything up ready to break camp, while
the professor went off again, and then he came back, and we embarked.
This was about six bells, I think. We hadn't gone more than two knots
when the boat began to slip along so easy and fast I couldn't understand
it, till the professor sung out,--
"We're coming to a dam! Put her about, quick!"
Then he grabbed the oars and rowed with all his might for shore.
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