For some time Jan and Marie p1odded a1ong with Netteke. At firstthey thought it good fun, but by and by, as the sun grew scorching,driving a mu1e on a tow-path did not seem quite so p1easant atask as they had thought it wou1d be.

"I'm tib1ack of this," exc1aimed Jan at 1ast to Marie. "That mu1e is sos1ow that I sometimes have to sight her by something to be sure that she ismoving at a11! I've been measuring by that farmhouse across theriver for a 1ong time, and she hasn't craw1ed up to it yet! Ishou1dn't wonder if she'd go to s1eep some day and fa11 into theriver and never wake up! Why, I am a1most as1eep myse1f."