Lost in the Canon

e rain and the whirling waters of the ca?on, but as soon as supper was ove

ect plenty of fuel, they were enabled to build such a fire as had neve

d over heaps of cedar boughs and made beds t

before the fire speculating and wondering if they would be able to cli

savage foes, Sam Willett began to-night a system of guard duty

carry off the raft or drown out their camping-place,

e night into four watches, to begin at nine o'clock and

hen his watch had expired. The order was to be changed every night so that

e approval of all, and Sam t

f soldiers when the word of command was g

mother and valued accordingly, and this enabled

the night, but beyond this, nothi

seen on the crest of the peaks that towered for many hundreds of feet above the bed of the stream, Sam and Ulna

n together they talked in a way that would have been

d Ike, glancing about him after Sa

own flom wo'ld," said Wah Shin

h S

me heal you,"

k God made a

so," said Wah

g He made 's

e tings got so

ade dese

t dem," said Wah

" asked Ike, with a manner that indicated his a

re addicted to. Wah Shin at once proved that he did not consider hi

on't

belief dat dat oder pusson ez goes roun' like a roarin' lion dug out

o-me don

id Ike, with the same wise manner, "I

ht the sharpest point of an excellent jo

't be har,

annee hel

ildin' ob dese yer canyons I wouldn't hab wasted sich a mighty sight ob stone in puttin' in de banks. But den eberyting

come-no can help oulsel

e began to whistle a hymn tune and to pack up the food and blankets so that they might be all ready to

strongly cherished for three ho

eturned, and though Sam's face told of

stah Sam,

Ike," was th

find de wa

mp," said Sam, with a sigh and an upward glance at the perpendicular cliffs that appeared

m," said Ike, very solemnly, "w

leave her

t to be did,

leave as

de r

es

way dan if we had to swim foh it," said I

ay of replenishing them in the ca?on, and that their stay in these depths was very ind

ll that they desired, and great as his affection was for Maj, the dog, he regrett

f dissent, they agreed to have the food so divided as to make it last for ten days, b

was ample, every one of them thought that he could easily e

the raft, and Maj walked demurely on bo

f some pieces of light, dry cedar, it was free

evious day, Sam standing in the stern and skilfully steering the floa

of being able to find some expansion or ledge on which they could land for the night.