What was pulling her
out into the river? It was a little tug boat and the tug boat had hold
of one end of a big rope and the other end of the rope was tied fast to
the steamer. And the little tug boat was puffing and chucking and
working away as hard as he could and calling out:

[Illustration: Musical Score
"Too too too too toot I'm aw-ful smart; too too too too toot I pull
big things."]

And do you know why the tug boat and the steamer were talking like this?
It is because they were afraid they might bump into some other ship in
the fog for they can't see in the fog. You know how white and thick the
fog can be.

So the old steamer and the little tug boat both kept tooting until they
were way out in the middle of the river.

"Toot, toot, I'm moving." "Tootootootootoot, I'm awful smart."

[Illustration]

Now when they were way out in the middle of the river, the little tug
boat dropped the rope from the big steamer and turned around. As it
puffed away it called out:

"Too-too-too-tootoot, I'm going home
Too-too-too-tootoot, I'm awful smart."

Then the big steamer moved slowly down the river towards the great ocean
calling through the fog:

"Toot, toot, I'm moving."

Up on the captain's bridge stood the pilot. He is the man who tells just
where to make the steamer go in the harbor. He knows where everything
is. He knows where the rocks are on the right and he didn't let the
steamer bump them. He knows where the sand reef is on the left and he
didn't let the steamer get on to that. He knows just where the deep
water is and he kept the steamer in it all the time.

Now down on the right so close that it almost bumped, there went a flat
boat. This boat was saying:

[Illustration: Musical Score
"Toot toot My load is heavy, load is heavy, load is heavy, toot,"]

And that was a coal barge. And then down on the left so close that it
almost bumped on the other side they heard another boat saying:

[Illustration: Musical Score
"Too toot, back & forth, Too toot, back & forth"]

And that was a ferry boat! Then off on the right they heard a great big
deep voice. This is what it said:

[Illustration: Musical Score
"Toot toot, 'tis I"]

And that was a war boat! And every time the old steamer answered:

"Toot, toot, I'm moving."

Once off on the left the passengers could hear this:

"Ding----g! dong----g!
Hear my song----g!
Ding----g! dong----g!"

And what bell do