They chopped out some rough paddles, and on the fifth day the boat
was ready to try. They put it into the water in the evening, and, to
their delight, it floated on an even keel, and would hold two of them
at a time.
"We'll take turns making a trip to-morrow," said Bart. "It doesn't leak
hardly any. It wouldn't take a prize, and it's not much on looks, but
it's something to have made a canoe off in the midst of the woods, and
with scarcely any tools."
His chums agreed with him, and that night they went to bed thinking of
the fun they would have the next day.
Ned was the first to awake. He got up, in accordance with the rule that
the earliest riser must build the fire. He looked over toward the cots
where his companions slept. As he did so he gave a start.
"Frank is gone!" he called, and Bart and Fenn awakened.
CHAPTER XVIII
A CANOE TRIP
When the completed canoe had been set into the water that evening, a
daring plan had entered Frank's mind. On his visit to the sanitarium he
had noticed that, at the foot of the cliff, there flowed a stream of
water. He thought it might be the same one that ran past the camp, and he
determined to learn if this was so.
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