Don't you think you ought to tie up ?" "The freshet's leaving us.

I'll run until we hit the big water down by Pleasantville, and then tie up," said Cavendish.
"I reckon we'd better lift him on to one of the beds--get his wet clothes off and wrap him up warm," said Polly.
"Oh, put him in our bed!" cried all the little Cavendishes.
And Yancy was borne into the smaller of the two shanties, where presently his bandaged head rested on the long communal pillow.

Then his wet clothes were hung up to dry along with a portion of the family wash which fluttered on a rope stretched between the two shanties.
The raft had all the appearance of a cabin dooryard.

There was, in addition to the two shelters of bark built over a light framework of poles, a pen which housed a highly domestic family of pigs, while half a dozen chickens enjoyed a restricted liberty.

With Yancy disposed of, the regular family life was resumed.