“That would be six hundred for the two and nine hundred if we have to use three.”
“Yes, and six thousand if we have to use twenty.” Bob laughed. “Your arithmetic is all right. But honestly, Jack, it isn’t going to be such an awful job as you seem to think. We can easily take three hundred pounds of stone and one of the barrels in the boat at a time and that means only two or at the most three trips. If we start in early in the morning I believe we can have the boat here at the wharf by noon. What do you say?”
“I say yes of course. I only wanted to be sure that you know what you were doing.”
CHAPTER II.
JACK INVESTIGATES A PRINCIPLE.
“Now my idea is to take short pieces of rope and to tie as large a rock as we can handle to each of them. Then we can hang them over the barrel until she begins to sink.”
“But won’t they slip off?” Jack asked.
“Not if we put a nail through the rope.”
It was nearly six o’clock the morning after the accident. The boys had already had breakfast and had gotten two of the barrels out from under the floating pier.
“How are you going to hitch the barrels to the boat after you get them down there?” Jack asked.
“A very important question, son. I thought we could find some kind of a hook which we could fasten to the barrel and then we got them down all we’d have to do would be to slip one under the top of the bow and the other the same way at the stern.”