Excerpts from the Book 'Afloat On The Flood':

... outlook that faced them now seemed to promise even more thrilling adventures. No wonder all of them showed signs of excitement, when all around them ...
... discouraging reports kept circulating through the stricken town. The river was rising at a rate that promised to cause its waves to lap the roadway of ...
... to realize the gravity of the situation. All this bustle was in the nature of a picnic to them. They shouted, and called to one another, as they ran ...
... it anyhow no damage done if I make a foozle. He hunted up a suitable place, where he thought the light would be most serviceable, and then started to ...
... and all that. Steve wanted to protest, but he could see that his chum really meant it, and did not intend to allow himself to be made a hero of, if ...
... consequently there was a craning, of necks, and a straining of eyes, until Steve was fain to call out rubber! in his jocular way. There was something ...
... you c'n call this turnin' twistin' raft a ship. Makes me dizzy the way she reels and cavorts just like she might be trying one of them new fangled ...
... trying to figure it out myself, Steve, admitted the other, who had also been studying the shore line, though everything was so changed during ...
... French farm house had stood, to find it missing and so he wanted to prepare the other chum against a shock. It's kind of you to say that, Max, Steve ...
... which Max proceeded to remove his wet shoes and socks, rolling his trouser legs up half way to his knees. What's all this mean? asked Steve, ...
... headlong into the water, and it would be a difficult thing for them to save Mazie and the other two girls. Besides, the anchored doors might be lost, ...
... with a tremor in her voice, that told of quivering lips, and rapidly beating heart. Looky there! burst out Bandy-legs just then if she ain't takin' ...
... had heard were hunting game a mile or two back in the woods, and that there was little chance of their coming closer to the river. I can see the house ...
... their force of cooks getting supper ready. Couldn't be a bigger change anyway you fix it, assented Bandy-legs and let me tell you these girls certainly ...
... the animals as the keen sense of smell telling them that provisions were to be found back in that rustic shack. Max waited until the big leader ...
... made themselves fairly comfortable. Max smiled. Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean any of us will have to stay awake, he went on to say, which ...
... to be granting them the privileges of the camp, far be it from him to interfere all the same he was going to watch them closely. Max was becoming more ...
... same kinder rough on us, young feller? demanded the hobo or escaped jailbird, whichever the taller man might be. Wot yer gives us only makes us hungrier'n ...
... there the wonderful productiveness of the soil serves as a lure to tempt people to accept risks. As a rule these folks are able to laugh ...
... go away for a bit, both feeling rather ill-used. Unfortunately they are taken that night by the press-gang, and after some attempts to get away, they ...