Aunt Ellen always says, “When are you boys ever going to learn?”
Evidently, the answer was “not today.”
Eli is my younger brother, and I kicked myself for listening to him. As the storm kept rolling in, the canoe took on water somethin" awful.
It was getting choppy as we zoomed down the river. Now, at the end wasn"t no giant waterfall, like in the movies. We knew what we headed for was even worse.
The dangerous spot is called by a silly kid"s name, but you"d stop smiling if you saw it. It"s where the river takes a little jump down, only at the bottom are nasty, jagged rocks in a near circle. To grownups, it looks like a set of teeth with a whirlpool in the middle. Us kids know the truth: Devil"s Toilet Bowl.
By now I was hoping we"d take on more water, to slow us down. As I glanced ba
