1 I tied up and started along the bank.
2 They took him and buried him on the bank.
3 I stood on the bank and looked out over the river.
4 About twelve o'clock we turned out and went along up the bank.
5 That cut bank was an island, and Jim had gone down t'other side of it.
6 The next minute I was a-spinning down stream soft but quick in the shade of the bank.
7 I crept up the dead water under the bank, and hadn't no accidents and didn't see nobody.
8 I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
9 I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
10 It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise.
11 I went up the bank about fifty yards, and then I doubled on my tracks and slipped back to where my canoe was, a good piece below the house.
12 When she'd got pretty well along down towards me, I put out my pipe and went to where I fished out the bread, and laid down behind a log on the bank in a little open place.
13 I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
14 I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went.
15 Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time.
16 When the first streak of day began to show we tied up to a towhead in a big bend on the Illinois side, and hacked off cottonwood branches with the hatchet, and covered up the raft with them so she looked like there had been a cave-in in the bank there.
17 The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the currrent was tearing by them so swift.
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