We haven't looked any over there." "That's so," replied Shif'less Sol, "but the water is at least seven feet deep here, an' we don't want to make any splash swimmin'.

Suppose you go up stream, an' I go down, an' the one that finds a ford first kin give a signal.

One uv us ought to strike shallow water in three or four hundred yards." Henry followed the current toward the south, while Sol moved up the stream.

The boy went cautiously through the dense foliage, and the creek soon grew wider and shallower.

At a distance of about three hundred yards lie came to a point where it could be waded easily.