By five o'clock the level of the water was barely two inches below the edge of the bank, and as it was rising at the rate of two or three inches an hour, Sam thought it time to remove from their old to their new quarters.

The change was of advantage to the sick boy, who was now getting somewhat better at any rate, and when he found himself in the new place the interest he showed in examining all the details of its arrangements, was the best possible evidence of improvement.
"Come here, little woman," he said to Judie, "and give an account of yourself.

You borrowed my knife yesterday, and somebody has been using it in cutting bush tops to make a smooth floor with, and the idea was a very good one.

Can you tell me who it was ?" "Maybe it was Tom," she replied mischievously.
"No, it was not Tom," Sam answered.

"He's too much of a great awkward boy to think of anything so comfortable.