care of itself. Before daylight in the morning he heard the roar of
a great crevasse that had been formed near Bonnet Carre. The river bank
there had been washed away for about four or five hundred yards and a
great volume of water was being swept into the forests and swamps below.
Without much difficulty he passed this dangerous break and at daylight
his bugle called the early risers in the village to the river bank. Here
without leaving the water, he got a cup of hot coffee and while he was
drinking it, those on the bank informed him that there was a white boat
just coming around the bend in the distance, so he concluded to wait
for it. Soon after, Mr. Brown, pulling lazily along, arrived. Paul rated
him soundly for his tardiness. The reporter was sound asleep, doubled
up in a pile of hay at the bottom of the boat. At five o'clock that
evening, exactly twenty-four hours after they started, they tied up at
the levee in New Orleans where they were received by about ten thousand
people, who covered the levee and crowded the deck of the steamers.

While resting in New Orleans after his run, Paul was waited on by a
party of gentlemen, who announced themselves as a committee appointed
to call on him and see if they could induce him to give an exhibition
in......, an interesting little town up the river.

"Have you got any water that can be enclosed?" Paul inquired.

They said they had a beautiful little lake right back of the town that
could be properly fenced, so that no one could look on without paying.
They promised that Captain Boyton should have the entire receipts, and
that they would make it a gala day providing he would come up, and
assured him of the warmest kind of reception. "We'll have music too,"
added one of the committee men.

Being so assured, Paul promised to be on hand. The committee started for
home where they commenced to rouse the country. One morning Paul,
accompanied by Mr. Brown stepped off a steamboat at .........., and was
received by the committee who were waiting for him and who immediately
escorted him to the hotel where he was cordially invited to "limber up."
After breakfast, the voyager was escorted to the lake and saw to his
annoyance that there was no fence or enclosure around it. He
remonstrated with the committee and said that they could never get a
fence around it in time. The answer was, "Never mind, Captain, never
mind. We'll guarantee that no on