We _will_ see, and feel too, when we all gets drownded in de water." The water came to a stand about midnight, and was falling slowly the next morning.

But when morning came it was raining hard, and the rain was evidently not a local but a general one, wherefore, Tom feared that the fall would shortly be changed into a rise, and that the bank would soon be covered.

He watched his stake carefully, visiting it every half hour.

At nine o'clock the river had fallen three inches, and was about eight inches below the bank.

From nine to ten it fell only about half an inch.