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He coughed up a quantity of water, and gave vent to his feelings over a miraculous escape. "Damn it all!" he wailed, "I lost my peavie!" "On the Paint River drive one spring," said I, "a jam formed that extended up river some three miles. The men were working at the breast of it, some underneath, some on top.
And again of that doughty knight of the peavie who, when attacked by an axe, waved aside interference with the truly dauntless cry, "Leave him be, boys; there's an axe between us!"
Then for the first time I noticed another acquaintance, handling his peavie near the very person of the rear boss. "Hullo," said I to myself, "that's funny. I wonder if Jimmy Powers got even; and if so, why he is working so amicably and so near Roaring Dick." At noon the men came ashore for dinner. I paid a quarter into the cook's private exchequer and so was fed.
"Great, isn't it!" exclaimed Don. "Yes, but I wouldn't want to be on one of those cakes of ice," shivered Dot. "Neither would anyone!" "I'll tell you what I would like to play," said Dot. "What?" asked Don. "I'd play I was one of the river-men with a peavie an' I'd try to push the logs down in the river," said Dot, looking down at some logs lying halfway in the water.
They are about all over two hundred feet tall, and some run close to three hundred." Bob sighed. "All right. Drive on. I'll get used to it in time." His face lighted up with a grin. "Say, wouldn't you like to see Roaring Dick trying to handle one of those logs with a peavie? As for driving a stream full of them! Oh, Lord!
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