Freddie looked and saw that this was so.
"I wonder if we can touch bottom out here," he said. "I'm going to try."
He let go of his coat, and as it happened that Flossie did the same thing, the little jacket was blown into the water.
"Oh!" cried Flossie. "Oh! Oh!"
"I can get it!" excitedly shouted Freddie. "I'll reach it with my pushing stick."
He managed to do this, taking care not to lean too far over the edge so the boat would not tip. Then he caught the coat on the end of the stick and pulled his jacket into the boat.
"Oh, it's all wet!" cried Flossie.
Freddie did not stop to tell her that every time anything fell into the water it got wet. Instead, he began to search in his pockets.
"What's the matter—did you lose something?" asked Flossie.
"I guess we can eat 'em after they dry out," said Freddie, after a bit, pulling out some soaked sugar cookies.