| vol. iii.—no. 148. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday, August 29, 1882. | Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB.[1]
BY W. L. ALDEN,
Author of "The Moral Pirates," "The Cruise of the 'Ghost,'" etc., etc.
Chapter III.
Luckily the water was only four feet deep, as Charley found when hetried to touch bottom; so he stopped swimming, and with the water nearlyup to his shoulders, stood still and began to think what to do next.
The canoes—including the sunken Midnight—were a good mile from theshore, and although the sandy shoal on which Charley was standing wasfirm and hard, it was of small extent, and the water all around it wastoo deep to be waded.
"You'll have to get into one of our canoes," said Harry.
"How am I going to do it without capsizing her?" replied Charley.
"I don't believe it can be done," said Harry, as he looked first at theSunshine and then at the Twilight;[Pg 690] "but then you've got to do itsomehow. You can't swim a whole mile, can you?"
"Of course I can't, but then it won't do me any good to spill one of youfellows by trying to climb out of th