Roy Blakeley

, and Bridgeboro River rises in the northern part of some place or other and takes a-some kind of a course-and flows into New York Bay. Once I got

e grateful. So I ducked and groped around in the marshy bottom and I felt something hard with a point to it. I had to come up for air, then I ducked again and fel

and had moss growing to it and it was black and hard. I was crazy to find out what it was and I swam around the end of it, bobbing it up and down. Then I sat on it and rocked it and it joggled. When I straddled it, it went down with me and when I jerked it, it se

o the water. It looked like a slimy old log floating. I gave it a turn and

ow it because it's got "Presented by 1st Bridgeboro Troop, B. S. A.," on it. I guess maybe it was about fifteen feet long and as soon as I cut into it with my

't so black when I got it all cleaned off. It was kind of chocolate color and I knew it must be very old, because cedar turns that color after a long

picanoe, you can bet. I fell out and had to roll it over and bail it out two or three times. At last I got the hang of it and I pushed it in the marsh

nny kind of a paddle I guess, but it was better than nothing and anyway I decided to

ing pushed in among the reeds and oh, jiminety, it was nice sitting there. I thought maybe the creek would empty out a

tide began to turn and go back. All the while I was sitting there waiting I thought about the Indian that owned that canoe. Maybe hi

t oh, jingoes, I never had to sit up so straight in school (not even when the principal came through the class-room) as I did in that cranky old log with a hole in it

en I could see far ahead of me the roof of a hous

leave it the way it is, so if the w

ee Harris and they were talking about a hole in the boat, because that was the roof I sa

d jollying each other, the way the fellows in our troop are always doing. You can see by the map just how I got to where they w

deck dangling his feet and eating a sandwich

do you call this?"

right close to them, then I gave We

ed, "and I haven't had anything to eat since eight