The Six River Motor Boys on the Columbia, Or, the Confession of a Photograph

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. WHY THERE WAS NO VENISON. A Golden morning followed the day of storm. A golden morning on the Columbia river! Still, the lads were in no mood to enjoy the beauties of Nature as shown in her wilder moods. The Rambler, as has been said, was stuck fast in the mud, some distance from the ever-receding water. The rocks are showing again, Alex. observed, looking down the river with the glasses, and it looks as if there were falls ahead. The Columbia river, Case grumbled, seems to me to be pretty sudden. She climbs up a couple of rods one day and drops down the next. I wish she'd kept up until we got through this valley. That's all the fun of it! Alex. insisted. If you want to live a life of idle pleasure, just you go and get into a scow on a country mill-pond. We came out here for adventures, didn't we? From the looks of things, Case continued, we ought to have brought a house-moving machine with us. How are we ever going to get this boat back into the river. We might hunt and fish here until another flood comes along, he added with sarcasm in his tone. That would suit me, all right, Alex. returned. I don't care how long we remain here. There's plenty of game in the woods, and, now that you have learned to make bread, we are not likely to starve to death. Clay who had been roaming around in the sticky soil which the river had deposited on the inundated lands, now came rushing up to the boat. Get out the rifle! he said, speaking softly to Case. There's a fine deer back there in the thicket. We'll have venison for dinner. All was excitement in a moment. Case brought out the magazine rifle, and all three started for the thicket where Clay had seen the deer. Captain Joe was left in the cabin, with instructions to devour any stra...