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have held on if it hadn’t been for the papoose!
Why even as he watched her being carried away
he could see that she was still holding on to
that baby!

But it was more likely that the baby saved
Betty after all. Had she clutched as she felt
herself go, the canoe might easily have been
upset and all of them drowned. But now Jim
was safe, the Tub was intact, and Betty herself
was being carried along, rolled over and over,
without resistance and without effort. To let
herself go was her only chance of safety.

Jim was able to push himself into the main
stream again and to steer a straight course as
the Tub was carried along. He looked right and
left for some sign of Betty, overwhelmed with

anxiety, hoping against hope that she had

survived.
But there was joy ahead for him.

In a little scooped out cove where the
passing river had piled up sand and brush, he
found Betty, lying as the rushing stream had
left her, half in, half out of the water, with the
baby still encircled by her arms. They were
both alive and not even very much the worse for
their tumbling about in the water. Incredible

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