As the planks were of wood they aided in floating the affair.
"By jinks! I've got an idea!" suddenly cried Dick.

"We'll want the machine on the other side of the river.

Why not build a raft and float her over instead of bringing her ashore here?
There is plenty of stuff in that old hut." "That's the ticket!" answered Tom.

"Hurrah for a life on the rolling deep!" "It's a good idee," was the farmer's comment.

"I was wonderin' how we'd git over with the contraption.