I listened and heard a sound far off like a waterfall.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Search me," Bert answered, "but we're in bad here. Let's head for the mountains."
Now I didn't know what had happened, except that the whole country was under water. When it comes to the lay of the land I can usually tell where I'm at, but when it comes to the lay of the water, good night, And believe me, there's nothing that changes the looks of things like water.
"I think those are the mountains that make Nick's Valley," I said; "let's try to get over that way."
"There's a waterfall coming down out of a crevice between them," Bert said; "I know what's happened, the valley is flooded."
You see we were in the low fields west of those mountains. I can't tell you just where, but somewhere. There were hollows in the fields so sometimes we were walking and sometimes we were swimming. It was the outside of the mountains that we saw, as you might say; I mean the side away from the valley, so the water coming out through a cleft proved that the water must be pretty high inside—I mean in Nick's Valley. I
