CHAPTER XII
BLACK OR WHITE
We knew it would be pretty easy going after we got across the river. But getting across the river, that was the question. We knew well enough that we couldn’t swim straight across on account of the tide running out. It would have carried us downstream. The river isn’t very wide there and it isn’t much of a swim across, only if we tried it we’d land east of our course.
Westy said, “We’re up against it now. What are we going to do?”
“If we wait till the tide is full,” Hunt said, “we’ll have to sit around here till about eleven o’clock to-night.”
I said, “Do you suppose the rope would reach across?”
“Sure it would,” Dorry answered, “only how are we going to get it across?”
“Throw it,” Pee-wee said.