sailors coming ashore from wrecks on rafts. Rafts are flat boards, or
planks, nailed or tied together, and they will float on top of the water
and carry a number of people, though they are so low that the water
washes over them and wets one's feet.

This last part Bunny and Sue did not mind, for they had on rubber boots.
They quickly made a raft by collecting some boards and logs that had
come down with the flood, and had caught in the fence corner near which
their auto was anchored.

Uncle Tad helped them nail the boards together, and then Bunny and Sue
floated the raft over into a little rain-water lake in the middle of a
field and began shoving it about with long poles. They had ridden up and
down one side of the little lake, stopping at places on the "shore," to
which they gave the names of sea-coast towns near their home.

"Now we'll go across to the other side," said Sue.

But when she and Bunny had the raft about in the middle of the "lake,"
it stuck fast, because the water was not deep enough just there.

"Push!" cried Bunny. "Push hard, Sue!"

Sue pushed so hard that, all of a sudden, her pole broke, and she fell
off the raft into the water.

"Oh dear!" she cried. "Oh dear!"

For a moment Bunny did not know what to do. Then he saw that the water
was not more than up to Sue's knees and he knew she would not drown.