"Why, just have it go on a little voyage, you know."
"Voyage?"
"You booby, can't you understand?"
"Understand? No," replied John good-naturedly. "Don't see how we can have a voyage without sails, and the masts are bare as bean-poles when there ain't any beans on 'em."
"Oh, you're thick-headed. Don't you see this anchor?"
"Don't see any. I suppose there is one somewhere--covered up, you know, down on the bed of the river."
"Only water covers it, and it could be raised, and we could have a sail without any sails."
"Come on!" said John, who was the very boy for any kind of an adventure. "But," he prudently added, "how could we stop?"
"Drop the anchor again. Why, we could stop any time."
"So we could."