1 We was drifting straight down for her.
2 We went drifting down into a big bend, and the night clouded up and got hot.
3 I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it.
4 By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore.
5 The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore.
6 I started across to the town from a little below the ferry-landing, and the drift of the current fetched me in at the bottom of the town.
7 But I made out to see that the drift of the current was towards the left-hand shore, which meant that I was in a crossing; so I changed off and went that way.
8 So we talked it over all one night, drifting along down the river, trying to make up our minds whether to drop the watermelons, or the cantelopes, or the mushmelons, or what.
9 Quick, Jim, it ain't no time for fooling around and moaning; there's a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don't hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can't get away from the wreck there's one of 'em going to be in a bad fix.'