"I am all right, and having a fine time, but have lost the raft. I am
on board a boat called the _Whatnot_, with some very kind people--a
gentleman named Fifield, a girl named Sabella, a funny old darky named
Solon, and a monkey named Don Blossom. I am bound to find the raft
again if it is still afloat, and am going to keep on down the river in
this boat until we catch up with it.
"I shall be here long enough for you to answer this letter; and send me
some money, please, and tell me all about everybody. Give my dear love
to Elta, and tell her I wish she knew Sabella and Don Blossom. She is
just the kind of a girl, and he is just the kind of a monkey, a fellow
likes to know.
"Now it is late, and I must turn in, for I am working my passage on
this boat, and Solon and I must take the place of a mule to-morrow, and
till we can earn money enough to buy one. So good-bye, from your
affectionate son,----WINN."
While the boy was writing, Cap'n Cod went ashore, and when the former
took his letter to the post-office, he met his host there with two
letters in his hand. They followed Winn's into the box, but he did not
see the address on either of them. If he had, he would have been more
troubled than ever, for one was addressed to the Sheriff of Dubuque
County, and the other to his own father.
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