In another minute he had the child grasped firmly in his long sinewy arms, and laying his breast and head over the stern of the canoe, he called to the mother to grasp at once his long hair as its ends fell into the water.

He managed to get the child safely into his canoe, but he experienced great difficulty in saving its mother.

She drifted fully one hundred yards, but all the distance holding stoutly to the Indian's locks.

With all the strength of Paul Guidon he was not able to get Mrs.Godfrey into the canoe.

Once he nearly succeeded, but almost upset his little bark.