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"Well, come along as fast as you can," cried Harry, "and I'll run down to your house and get your axe to cut a longer pole." By the time Harry had found a tall young sapling, and had cut it down and trimmed it off, Lewston arrived with the boat.
Very soon he lost sight of Lewston and Harvey, and the last he saw of them they were hurrying by the edge of the water, in the woods. Now he sat down, and looked about him. The creek appeared to be getting wider and wider, and he thought that if he went on at that rate he must soon come to the river. The country seemed unfamiliar to him.
"Well, who wants you to swim?" said Harry, laughing. "That's a pretty joke. Are you thinking of swimming across, and towing the boat after you? You can push her over easy enough; that pole will reach the bottom anywhere." "Dat's so," said old Lewston. "It'll touch de bottom ob de water, but I don't know 'bout de bottom ob de mud. Ye musn't push her down too deep.
Why, it would be awful to have Aunt Judy and poor old Lewston banged out of their beds in the middle of the night." "I should think so," said Mr. Loudon; "but the boys I am sure about Harry understand their business, to that extent, at least. I don't apprehend any accidents of that kind."
"You take my station, Harvey, and I'll go over and work your end of the line." There was no opposition to this plan, and so Harry hurried off with Harvey to Lewston's cabin and helped him to make the connections and get the line in working order at that end, and then he ran down to the boat, jumped in, and Lewston pushed him off.
"Oh, no!" said Harvey, "not so many as that; not over forty-seven." "I'm going over to Lewston's. Perhaps he knows of a boat," said Harry; and away he ran. But Lewston was not in his cabin, and so Harry hurried along a road in the woods that led by another negro cabin about a half-mile away, thinking that the old man had gone off in that direction.
Every minute or two he shouted at the top of his voice, "Oh, Lewston!" Very soon he heard some one shouting in reply, and he recognized Lewston's voice. It seemed to come from the creek. Thereupon, Harry made his way through the trees and soon caught sight of the old colored man.
It was not easy to get the pole into the mud, the current was so strong; but he succeeded at last, by pushing it out in front of him, in forcing it into the bottom; and then, in a moment, it was jerked out of his hand, as the boat swept on, and, a second time, he came near tumbling overboard. Now he was helpless. No, there was the short pole that Lewston had left in the boat.
An empty corn-house seemed, as Tom Selden remarked, a very excellent place for them to meet. The financial condition of the company was about as follows: It owed "One-eyed Lewston" and Aunt Judy one dollar each for one month's rent of their homesteads as stations, the arrangement having been made about the time the instruments were ordered.
"There's a hammer under the seat of the buggy. One of you boys run and get it." At the word, two negro boys rushed for the buggy and the hammer. "A screw-driver would do better," said Harvey Davis. "One-eyed Lewston's got a screw-driver," said one of the men. "Dar Lewston!" cried John William Webster. "Dar he! Jist comin' ober de bridge." "Shet up!" cried Aunt Judy.
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