"I believe, if the two boats had changed places, you would have given us all the credit." "You behaved nobly." "Just as you would have done if you had been in Tony's place." "We will talk that over some other time.

We are ready to return when you are." "I suppose there is nothing more to be done." They were about to embark, when they discovered a party of men approaching the place, several of them carrying ropes and poles.
"Hold on;" shouted Farmer Leeds, to whose house the boys had conducted the lady and gentleman.

"We want your boat to get the chaise out of the river with." "It is out now," replied Little Paul.
The boys waited till the party reached the river.

A clump of trees had prevented them from seeing the chaise till they had got almost to the shore; and, as Little Paul expressed it afterwards, "they looked surprised enough, to see it high and dry upon the rocks." "I must say one thing, Mr.Leeds," began Mr.Walker; "and that is, you have smart boys in this vicinity." "Toler'ble," replied the farmer, with a smile.
"They are men in noble deeds." "This boating business turns the boys into men; and though, in my opinion, it would be just as well to set 'em to work in the cornfields, there is no denying that it brings 'em out, and makes 'em smart." "My wife would certainly have been drowned without their help." "I daresay." "But where is the little fellow that commanded the boat ?" asked Mr.
Walker, scrutinizing the faces of the boys.
"He has gone home, sir; he was wet and cold." "That is right; I am glad he has; I shall go and see him by and by.

And these are the boys that brought the chaise ashore ?" "Yes, sir," replied Little Paul.