Miller of Florida (Ohio) remember many funny incidents of old canal days. Once upon a time the boys of this locality built a fishing raft for use on the canal. Along came a canal boat and the boys always insisted that the steer man guided the boat crookedly in order to create an unusually big wash.
Anyhow the waves from the boat stranded the raft high and dry. The boys, vowing vengeance, hid in a corn field with a plentiful supply of dirt clods and when the boat appeared caused a wild time by clodding the mules and peppering the decks of the canal boat.
But when the steersman called for the shotgun, and told the captain they hadn't better shoot low because it was loaded for ducks, there was an unusual commotion among the cornfield as the boys without hesitating strove to get beyond range of the gun.
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