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Updated: May 11, 2025
Our object was to see the timber-rafts pass over the rapids; it was a very exciting scene, and as this was a favourable season, owing to the state of the river, we came in just at the right time. The Rusniacks the people generally employed in this perilous work certainly display great skill and coolness in the management of their ticklish craft.
Before he had time to get more than a glimpse of the green gliding surface, the stove was again lifted up and placed on a large boat that was in waiting one of those very long and huge boats which the women in these parts use as laundries, and the men as timber-rafts.
Rosti and a friend of his who had the oars were concerned solely with the fear that our boat would be shivered against one of the timber-rafts, towards which the flood was carrying us, and therefore exerted themselves to the utmost to avoid them; whereas I could see no other way of escape, especially for the lady sitting beside me, than by boarding one of these very rafts.
Frere, emitting a streak of smoke in the air, expressive of preternatural wisdom. "Well, we caught him, and gave him fifty. Then he was sent to the chain-gang, cutting timber. Then we put him into the boats, but he quarrelled with the coxswain, and then we took him back to the timber-rafts.
Or play on the timber-rafts or or anything?" asked Luretta. "I don't believe there is any harm in making rhymes. It's something you can't help," responded Anna thoughtfully. "And Parson Lyon has written a book," she added quickly, as if that in some way justified her jingles. "I don't want you to be different, Dan!" declared Luretta. Anna stopped and looked at her friend reproachfully.
Before he had time to get more than a glimpse of the green gliding surface, the stove was again lifted up and placed on a large boat that was in waiting, one of those very long and huge boats which the women in these parts use as laundries, and the men as timber-rafts.
Had the floating gardens been built in large boats made water-tight, they might have floated. But, unfortunately, the Indians had not the means for constructing such boats. Even timber-rafts would have become saturated in time, and sunk, as rafts of logs do if kept too long in the "mill-pond," waiting to be sawed into lumber.
Of course, on the great rise, down came a swarm of prodigious timber-rafts from the head waters of the Mississippi, coal barges from Pittsburgh, little trading scows from everywhere, and broad-horns from 'Posey County, Indiana, freighted with 'fruit and furniture' the usual term for describing it, though in plain English the freight thus aggrandized was hoop-poles and pumpkins.
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