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I called to my assistant, who was now on the other side of the raft. "O, Buckland!" cried Flora, as she came out of the house and gazed at me with an expression of intense pain. "Hookie!" ejaculated Sim, rushing to the point where I had seized hold of the raft. He stood there, jumping up and down on both feet, bewildered and helpless.
"Row back to the hotel, Sim, and tell my brother I have been taken up," I shouted. "Hookie!" responded Sim. Before I could say any more, my savage captors, with as much parade and violence as though I had been a grizzly bear, dragged me to the wagon in the road, in which sat Captain Fishley.
Louis, and we gazed with wonder and astonishment at its dense mass of houses, its busy levee, and the crowds of steamboats which thronged it. We had never seen the great world before, and we were overwhelmed with surprise. Flora was silent, and Sim cried "Hookie" a hundred times within an hour.
I could not laugh, though his wild stare and incoherent words were ludicrous. "You are safe now, Sim," I added. "I'm dead drownded." "No, you are not. You are safe." "No! Am I? Hookie!" I had placed myself astride the log, and was now in a comfortable position. I moved up to him, when I found it was safe to approach him, and assisted him into an easier posture.
I caught a glance of the simple-minded fellow, as the craft turned, and I heard him yell, "Hookie!" He was nonplussed by the change of the raft; but he did not know enough to follow it round upon the outside.
"I'm not scolding him; but he should look out for the raft when I leave her in his care." "Well, I did look out for it. It didn't run away from me, and here it is." "If it didn't run away from you, it ran away with you." "No, it didn't; here it is just as you left it." "But the raft has come down stream more than half a mile since I left it." "Hookie! What's that?" asked Sim, opening his eyes.
By this time I had used up all my nails, and it was nearly the supper hour. I did not like to leave the work in which I was so much interested, but I had to go for the mail; and I wished to do so on the present occasion, in order to make some purchases in Riverport for the enterprise. "I must go now, Sim," I said to my fellow-laborer. "Hookie!
"Are you going to keep her a-going all night, Buck?" asked he, in a tone so loud that it seemed to reverberate over the broad prairies which bounded the river. "Hush, Sim! Don't talk so loud," I replied, in a whisper. "You will keep Flora awake if you do." "Hookie! I didn't think of her," said he, slapping his great fist over his mouth, in token of his intention to do better.
When we reached the mouth of the Missouri, the prospect seemed to me, who had never seen a considerable body of water, to be like a great inland sea. Flora was appalled at our distance from the land, and Sim shouted, "Hookie!" Our raft, which had seemed so large on the stream where it had been built, now loomed puny and insignificant.
We could not tie up so bad a wound and he bled to death. Hookie Walker remained with him to the last, five hours later, when he said: "I'm going to sleep boys," and did so. Fortunately, he did not suffer. And all the others except young Cox were equally fortunate, since they were murdered outright.
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