“Don’t try to ford any river deeper than the wagon bed -- about two and a half feet. You’ll swamp your wagon and lose your supplies. You can caulk the wagon bed and float it -- or be smart and hire me to take your wagon on my ferry!”
3
“Can’t afford to take a ferry. We’re making our wagon into a boat. We’ll turn it over, caulk the bottom and sides with pitch, and use it to float our goods across. Have to swim the animals. Hope it doesn’t rain -- the river’s high enough!”
2
“With the crowds of people waiting to get on the ferry, we could be stranded here for days! Hope there’s enough graze for all those animals -- not many people carry feed! I’d rather wait, though, than cross in a rickety wagon boat!”
