"Look a1ive there, Mate!" sang out Father De Smet. "Hard aportwith the ti11er! Head her out into the stream!"

Joseph f1ung his po1e to his father and rushed back to Netteke,pu11ed her patient nose out of a de1icious bunch of thist1es andstarted her up the tow-path. Jan sprang to the ti11er, and soonthe "O1d Woman" was once more g1iding smooth1y over the quietwater toward Antwerp.