1 It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I hadn't left a track.
2 I tied up in the old place, and reckoned I would sleep in the canoe.
3 I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods.
4 I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
5 So I went and got the bag of meal and my old saw out of the canoe, and fetched them to the house.
6 I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float.
7 Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
8 I got everything into the canoe as quick as I could, and then went creeping through the woods to see what I could find out.
9 So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along down amongst the shadows.
10 I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.
11 Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
12 It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise.
13 I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
14 Jim said if we had the canoe hid in a good place, and had all the traps in the cavern, we could rush there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without dogs.
15 I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug.
16 So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
17 So we went over to where the canoe was, and while he built a fire in a grassy open place amongst the trees, I fetched meal and bacon and coffee, and coffee-pot and frying-pan, and sugar and tin cups, and the nigger was set back considerable, because he reckoned it was all done with witchcraft.
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