Raymond S. Spears

Name: Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys
Author: Raymond S. Spears

Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

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“Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys”, published in 1921, is a work by Raymond S. Spears. It explores elements such as Jep, Carruth and Sibley.

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ Then the news-service film pictures were thrown on the screen, and through the camera lens they saw the Mississippi flood. That they had experienced themselves. They had seen the refugees in their flight, and the overflow at its worst. The running drift; the cattle helpless on a mound, up to their knees in water, doomed! the men carrying cotton bags full of dirt to build up the levees; the fight around a sand-boil to well it in, were all comprehensible and wholly natural to them.
Then they saw a motor-boat coming down the flood, and it rounded up to land at a levee. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ Mrs. Carruth promised. "The little darling! What do you call him?"
"Driftwood," answered Jep.
"What a name for such a baby!" she cried. "The idea!"
"He’ll like it when he’s a little older," the police captain smiled.
"A good nickname’s half a boy’s life!" Mr. Carruth declared, and the four youngsters laughed—Sib, Jimmy and Jep because they understood the remark, and Driftwood because he saw that the others were amused.
"You’ll be comfortable. You won’t worry?" Mrs. Carruth asked keenly, and Jep looked at her bravely.
"I’ll be all right," he said. "We’ll stick together, Driftwood and me." ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ After all, what had passed was only a kind of introduction to a lot of things that Jep, Sibley, Jimmy, and the rest had never dreamed of, but which became facts. And out of the river Driftwood had brought a whole train of events which would change what had seemed their destiny, more than the Mississippi will be changed after Slough Neck cuts off, or even if the banks of Atchafalaya River cave in and let the main river into the short cut to the Gulf.
"You dear boy! taking care of my baby for me!" Mrs. Brail said. "And just loving him so! He has never looked better in his life! ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ As soon as he’s escorted the flood into the Gulf he’ll have time to find your place in the government work."
"What!" Sibley stared with wide-eyed surprise.
"Oh, the Government just has to take on those who make a specialty of any kind of work the way you’ve studied the Mississippi River. You’re the kind we can train up to know the real inwardness of the Old Boy!"
"The Government just has to take on those who make a speciality of any kind of work the way you’ve studied the Mississippi River"
With his big roll of maps under his arm, Sibley went to the hotel in a dream. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ The touching of a levee by the bow of a steamer might break open the barrier and let the flood through.
Railroads were out almost everywhere in the bottoms. Some lines were several feet underwater, and others were cut through their fills; and even places like Cairo, not distant from high land, were a week without train service. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ The hundred-dollar reward was due to the desire of a woman to adopt an attractive baby, but the thousand-dollar addition to the reward could not be explained in the same way. They worried over the ominous threat.
At least Jep had kept his trust. They would stay with him till the questions raised were answered. Driftwood was a great baby, and Mr. Carruth had procured one of the best attorneys in Memphis to look into the right and wrong of the affair and to advise what it would be best to do.
"No crime is apparent, whatever the charge," the lawyer declared. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ A telephone message had summoned them there with word that Crimson and Jimmy wanted them to come to the rescue of Jep and the baby.
"Oh! What a darling baby!" Mrs. Carruth cried when she saw Driftwood in Jep’s lap, looking about with wide owl-eyes. Then Jep yielded the small refugee to Mrs. Carruth with a smile that was a little wan.
"They were with a fisherman," Crimson said. "We found ’em directly. Jep said it’d be the best way to come and face the music. He’s the doctor!"
"It is, too!" Mr. Carruth declared. "What have you heard? What do they want him for so strong?" ”

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Raymond S. Spears, Driftwood (Spears) — 18. What the River Did for Boys (1921)

“ The boys all went to the motion-picture theater that afternoon, and saw a play with shooting, daring escapes, and great horsemanship in desert, mountains, and forests. The three watched it with calm, unthrilled interest. ”

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