Tom Slade's Double Dare

s try to make a landing and see if we

great was the impetus of the rushing water that even making a landing was impossible. The boat w

we do?"

within reach of the shore in the cove. If we can do

ng, then of tearing, was heard beneath it, it reared up forward, spilling its

wedged crossways in the cove, its trunk entirely submerged. It formed a sort o

at would have been borne upon the flood

s, it's only a few feet to shore; careful how you step. If yo

ose this tree came

l I know," Tom answered. "Watch your

this luck, do yo

ace on the trunk," said Her

ts," said Tom; "you watch wha

! There's where I nearly dipped the dip. Watch me swing over

d there. He even claimed that he got a splinter in his hand, so doing! Upside down or wedged across a channel under water, trees were all the same to Hervey Willetts. He lived in trees. He knew nothing whatever about the different kinds of trees and he could not tell spruce from walnut. But he co

the jazzy-jump," he exclai

let go the branches and follow me," said Tom, s

Hervey, blithely. "I guess we're no

id not,"

ce cream soda, I k

ou step ashore

st," said Roy; "I

ed Hervey, who

ow shore of the cove. The tree, itself a victim of the storm, poked its branches up out of the black water like

the storm which had uprooted it. So it was that this fallen monarch, friend of the scouts, had contrived