November, and we want to get in the big river before we strike
anything like that."

In less than ten minutes they were moving out of the mouth of the
creek, with the river, half wreathed in fog, lying before them.

"We'll have to keep a good lookout, unless we want to run a chance
of cutting down some river steamer coming upstream," laughed Thad.

"Oh, that's easily avoided by keeping close in by the shore until
this mist rises, which I calculate it will do by 9 o'clock or so,"
replied Maurice, using his pole to advantage, so as to send the
boat out upon the current of the river, where they were speedily
moving merrily along.

It was a delight to cook breakfast with such surroundings, and a
constantly changing panorama along the shore.

Never did bacon have such a delicious odor; and when the coffee
boiled up, sending its fragrance throughout the cabin and out of
the partly open door, Maurice, who was attending to the steering
part of the business at the time, loudly bewailed the fact that he
must wait five long minutes more ere satisfying the craving
appetite that these suggestions of breakfast put on edge.

While they were still eating they passed a place on the Kentucky
side that from the map they believed to be Uniontown, which proved
that they were making fair progress while sitting around--which is
one of the finest things in connection with drifting south.