“I ’pose you work your old pile of lumber into shore.”
“No, you don’t. It would be a little better if you should work yourself a little out from shore.”
The hunter could not avoid laughing at the good natured shrewdness displayed by McGowan.
“I’m glad to see you’ve larned something. ’Twouldn’t be safe to get along the shore when there’s no current.”
“What made you ask me to do it then?”
“Just to see whether you had enough sense not to mind me. I tell you what you can do though, McGowan,” added Napyank in a more serious voice.
“What’s that?”
“Work the boat a little toward this bank so that I can wade out to you. A few yards will answer.”
“I suppose there is no objection to that, but you will have to go down stream a little further.”
“Of course.”