“Water,” said Charles, “will rise as high as the place it came from. I am going to have a fountain.”
So he stopped up the end of the pipe with clay, and near the end where the water ran quite fast, he made a little hole, and put into it two or three quills of an eagle, joined together, to make a pipe, and the water spouted through it into the air. As the day was now fast spending, they tore up their pipes, and putting them all into the canoe, and sucking the water through them, set them all running; and when Sally called them to supper the water was nearly all out of the canoe.
CHAPTER VII.
CHARLIE PLANS A SURPRISE FOR SALLY.
There was a certain article of household use that Charles had for a long time been desirous of making for his mother; but he wanted to surprise her with it. This seemed to him almost an impossibility, as she never went from home; but the opportunity now presented itself.
When they were all seated at the supper-table, John said to Ben, “Father sent me over to see if you and Sally would come home to Thanksgiving,—it’s Thursday,—and stay over Sabbath, and have a good visit.”
“I should like above all things to go,” said Sally; “but I don’t see how I could leave home so long.”
“Yes, you can leave,” said Ben; “you haven’t stepped off this island since we came on it. It will do you good, and do us all good.”
“O, do go, mother,” said Charlie, who had his own reasons for wishing to get her out of the house, and was rejoiced at the prospect of accomplishing it; “it will soon be so rough that there will be no getting over, at least for women folks, this winter.”
“But who will take care of you?”