"You hooked it?"
"Of course I did; you don't suppose I should mind trifles at such a time as this! But he can have it again, when I have done with it."
"What was the use of taking the boat?"
"In the first place, don't you think it is easier to sail in a boat than to walk? And in the second place, the river runs through the woods for five or six miles below Pine Pleasant; so that no one will be likely to see us. We shall get off without being found out."
"But the river is not deep enough. It is full of rocks about three miles down."
"We won't mind them. We can keep her clear of the rocks well enough. When I was down the river last spring, you couldn't see a single rock above water, and we don't draw more than six inches."
"But that was in the spring, when the water was high. I don't believe we can get the boat through."
"Yes, we can; at any rate, we can jump ashore and tow her down," replied Ben, confidently, though his calculations were somewhat disturbed by Harry's reasoning.
"There is another difficulty, Ben," suggested Harry.
"O, there are a hundred difficulties; but we mustn't mind them."