1 We seen a light now away down to the right, on shore.
2 I started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just after dark.
3 I closed in above the shore light, and laid on my oars and floated.
4 I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it.
5 I says to myself, they'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and then drag the river for me.
6 So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along down amongst the shadows.
7 I give her a turn with the paddle and brung her nose to shore; then I got my gun and slipped out and into the edge of the woods.
8 When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to the town.
9 The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore.
10 We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up-bound steamboats fight the big river in the middle.
11 Well, my idea is this: we'll rustle around and gather up whatever pickins we've overlooked in the staterooms, and shove for shore and hide the truck.
12 I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
13 I took the canoe out from the shore a little piece, and took a look; but if there was a boat around I couldn't see it, for stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
14 He dropped below me with the current, and by and by he came a-swinging up shore in the easy water, and he went by so close I could a reached out the gun and touched him.
15 We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us.
16 If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing-line, or anything to eat.
17 So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if you didn't know where it was.
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