TELLS ABOUT HOW TIGERS LEAP Of course, we didn't stop to think about it then, but I knew that when the water first came rushing through Nick's Valley, it must have been dashed right into the pit.

There was Skinny's body to prove it.
Afterward, when it got flowing into the creek bottom and spreading out over the fields below, I could see how it wouldn't flow into that hole.
But you can see for yourself, if you look at the map, that in the first rush it _must_ have done that.

Gee, I'm no civil engineer, but anyway, I could see that.

Anyway, we didn't stop to think about that, or the canoe either, but only just Skinny.
"See if the paddle's anywhere around," Bert said.

His voice was awful funny--sharp kind of, as if he meant business.
"What do you want that for ?" I asked him, all excited.
"Look and see--do as I tell you," he just said.
It was in the smashed canoe and I just stood there holding it.
"What'll I do with it ?" I asked him.
"Just hold it," he said.