So you can." "But, Sam," said Sid.
"Well ?" "You said that was in the first place; what's the next ?" "In the next place, we'll need such a boat in running down the river." "Why ?" "Because there'll be no fit camping places in the low grounds, even if the water isn't over the banks, and so we must stay in the boat night and day, which would be rather an uncomfortable thing to do in a little round bottomed dug-out, that would turn over if a fellow nodded.

Beside that I'm anxious to make all the time I can and when we leave here I mean to push ahead night and day without stopping." "How'll we manage without eatin' or sleepin' ?" asked Jake Elliott, who seemed somehow to be interested chiefly in discovering what appeared to him to be insurmountable obstacles in the way of the execution of Sam's plans.
"I have no thought," answered Sam, "of trying to do without either eating or sleeping." "Where'll we eat," asked Jake, "ef we don't stop nowhere ?" "In the boat, of course." "Yes, but where'll we cook ?" "Here," answered Sam.
"Before we start ?" "Yes, certainly.

We'll kill some game, cook it at night and eat it cold on the way with cold bread.

That will save our bacon to cook fish with down at Pensacola." "Well, but how about sleeping ?" "That is one of my reasons for making so large a boat.

We can sleep in her very comfortably, one staying awake to steer and paddle, all of us taking turns at it." This plan was eagerly welcomed by the boys, who speedily fell to work upon the log under Sam's direction.