A SUMMER VOYAGE 



and drowned. And when I came to rock eddy, 

 which I would know, because the river divided 

 there (a part of the water being afraid to risk the 

 eddy, I suppose), I must go ashore and survey the 

 pass; but in any case it would be prudent to keep 

 to the left. I might stick on the rift, but that was 

 nothing to being wrecked upon those rocks. The 

 boys were quite in earnest, and I told them I would 

 walk up to the village and post some letters to my 

 friends before I braved all these dangers. So they 

 marched me up the street, pointing out to their 

 chums what they had found. 



" Going way to Phil What place is that near 

 where the river goes into the sea ? " 



" Philadelphia ? " 



"Yes; thinks he may go way there. Won't he 

 have fun ? " 



The boys escorted me about the town, then back 

 to the river, and got in their boat and came down 

 to the bend, where they could see me go through 

 the whirlpool and pass the binocle (I am not sure 

 about the orthography of the word, but I suppose 

 it means a double, or a sort of mock eddy). I looked 

 back as I shot over the rough current beside a gentle 

 vortex, and saw them watching me with great inter- 

 est. Rock eddy, also, was quite harmless, and I 

 passed it without any preliminary survey. 



I nooned at Sodom, and found good milk in a 

 humble cottage. In the afternoon I was amused by 

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