124 LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

of the stone, reaching out, and trying to push off a
small log which was partly floating, and partly
lodged uponsa rock. Just as she succeeded in
pushing off the log, she heard Lucy exclaim, in a
tone of surprise, —

«Why! why! how wide the water is

Comfort looked round, and dropped her pole
instantly, and said, —

‘So it is; the water is rising. ‘The men have
hoisted the gate. We must get off this rock as
quick as we can.”

Comfort and Lucy ran all around the rock,
trying to find a place to get off; but it was too
late. The water, on each side, was before so
wide that they could hardly jump over it, and the
surface of the rocks beyond, which formed the
bed of the stream, sloped off so gradually, tuat a
very little rise in the water made it considerably
wider.

«What shall we do?” said Comfort; “ what
shall we do?” As she said this, she kept going
round and round the rock, trying to find some
place where it would do to jump off; but she
could-not. Lucy was very much frightened, and
began to cry.

*Q, Lucy, don’t cry,” said Comfort. “You
needn’t be afraid.”

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