1 They said he was floating on his back in the water.
2 It warn't no towhead that you could float by in ten minutes.
3 And there was the ferryboat full of people floating along down.
4 I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don't float on his back, but on his face.
5 Here, I'll put a twenty-dollar gold piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by.
6 I was floating along, of course, four or five miles an hour; but you don't ever think of that.
7 I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float.
8 So, says I, I'll keep a lookout, and if any of them's floating around after me I'll give them a show.
9 You float along down about twenty miles, and you'll come to a town on the left-hand side of the river.
10 A big double loaf come along, and I most got it with a long stick, but my foot slipped and she floated out further.
11 I noticed some pieces of limbs and such things floating down, and a sprinkling of bark; so I knowed the river had begun to rise.
12 Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there.
13 The ferryboat was floating with the current, and I allowed I'd have a chance to see who was aboard when she come along, because she would come in close, where the bread did.
14 After a long time the rain let up, but the clouds stayed, and the lightning kept whimpering, and by and by a flash showed us a black thing ahead, floating, and we made for it.
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 We hustled it on to the raft in a pile, and I told Jim to float along down, and show a light when he judged he had gone about two mile, and keep it burning till I come; then I manned my oars and shoved for the light.
17 When me and the king and the duke got home to the raft we all had a supper; and by and by, about midnight, they made Jim and me back her out and float her down the middle of the river, and fetch her in and hide her about two mile below town.
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