Paul at last half forcibly seated him on a block of wood on the steering oar and procuring a pole they started on their voyage.

All went well until they had passed under the old Aqueduct Bridge.

Then a crowd of Pittsburgh boys who were in a skiff recognized Paid as the leader of their enemies from Alleghany and opened up hostilities.

Paul bravely kept them off with his pole and whenever the chance offered propelled it nearer and nearer to his own side of the river.

When almost ashore they rammed the steering oar with the bow of their skiff, struck Paul with the oar and tumbled poor Harvey into the river.