You were smooth-faced then.

Let's see,--'86, fall of '87, summer of '88,--yep, that's when.

Summer of '88 I come floatin' a raft out of Stewart River, loaded down with quarters of moose an' strainin' to make the Lower Country 'fore they went bad.

Yep, an' down the Yukon you come, in a Linderman boat.

An' I was holdin' strong, ez it was Wednesday, an' my pardner ez it was Friday, an' you put us straight--Sunday, I b'lieve it was.