She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.

He's got a God-given talent for this game.

The rafts were made up of strings of logs about seventeen feet wide, held together by poles across them. Each log was pinned to the poles by wooden pegs and lockdowns.

Water temperature can be altered with the removal of overstream canopy. Water temperatures can increase in summer and decrease in winter encouraging lethal anchor ice problems.