480 ZZF.# ON THE MISSISSIPPI,

Dutchy plunged in, but the boys, instead of beginning to ccmni
followed the lead of one of their number and scampered to a raagetf
blackberry bushes close by and hid behind it. They imagined
Dutchy's humiliation, when he should rise after a superhuman effort

ALL EI&HT, DUTCHY—G-O AHEAD.'
and find the place silent and vacant, nobody there to applaud,
were fi so full of laugh * with the idea, that they were conthroa%
exploding into muffled cackles. Time swept on, and presently c®&
» was peeping through the briers, said, with surprise—
* Why, he hasn't come up, yet 1'