"May be he did, sir," answered Ben, respectfully.
"O, there can be no doubt about it. Isn't it a wonder that he wasn't drowned?"
"Mr. Richard, knows how to handle a boat as well as any boy of his years on the river."
"Yes, but you forget that he was asleep all the time."
"Perhaps he was, sir," said Ben, who did not seem to appreciate Mr. Presby's philosophy.
"But he did not get all that mud and filth upon him while he was in the boat."
"No, sir, of course he didn't; for I wash down the boat every time she is used, and she was as neat as a new pin when I looked into her at sundown last night."
"Then he must have landed somewhere," added the logical Mr. Presby.
"No doubt of that, sir."
"Where do you suppose he landed?"