There was a log hut here, and the owner had a frail canoe in which he could paddle an occasional traveller across the river.

But nothing would induce him to risk his life in an attempt to cross in such a storm.
The impetuous boy, in his ignorance of the effect of wind upon waves, resolved to attempt to cross, at every hazard, and notwithstanding all remonstrances.

He obtained a leaky canoe, which was half stranded upon the shore, and pushed out on his perilous voyage.

He tied his little bundle of clothes to the bows of the boat, that they might not be washed or blown away, and soon found himself exposed to the full force of the wind, and tossed by billows such as he had never dreamed of before.

He was greatly frightened, and would have given all he had in the world, to have been safely back again upon the shore.