CHAPTER I. “THE DRUSES ARE UP!”

“GREAT SCOTT, LOOK AT HER! She’s goin’ to try and take ‘em!” exclaimed Osterhaut, the Jack-of-all-trades at Lebanon.

“She ain’t such a fool as all that. Why, no one ever done it alone. Low water, too, when every rock’s got its chance at the canoe. But, my gracious, she is goin’ to ride ‘em!”