1 The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise.
2 But it was too dark to see yet, so we made the canoe fast and set in her to wait for daylight.
3 I took after it; but when I got to it it warn't nothing but a couple of sawlogs made fast together.
4 But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast.
5 The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
6 I never waited for to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back on my tiptoes as fast as ever I could.
7 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.
8 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.
9 I crawfished as fast as I could about two yards, but the boat slanted so that I couldn't make very good time; so to keep from getting run over and catched I crawled into a stateroom on the upper side.
10 Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him.
11 Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.