11 It's all right," Bert reassured, "We 

 can keep it balanced when we get in." 



By dangerously overloading the 

 canoes we managed to get all the 

 luggage aboard save "a few things 

 we did not need immediately and 

 could be sent for to-morrow." 



A jeering friend in a dream city, 

 called New York, had presented 

 me with two pairs of "water wings." 

 I may briefly state for the benefit 

 of those who have never made the 

 acquaintance of these little objects, 

 that they are irregular- shaped bags, 

 like the map of North and South 

 America, joined by the Isthmus of 

 Panama. When inflated and placed, 

 the Isthmus across the body and the 

 Americas under the arms of a 

 person in the water, they are sup- 

 posed to keep said person from sink- 

 ing. When I watched Sally crawl 

 into her canoe while three men held 

 it from capsizing and gazed awe- 

 somely at the subsequent "trim- 

 ming" and adjusting of its bulging 

 contents to make it ride even, I 

 forthwith handed her a pair of 

 aniline-pink water wings as a token 

 of my affection. She was inclined 



