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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Zeke and his mate took in the oars. The wanigan shot forward below
the gate--
WHACK! BUMP! BANG! and the scow stopped so suddenly that its four
men plunged forward in a miscellaneous heap, while Zeke narrowly
escaped going overboard. Almost immediately the water, backed up
behind the stern, began to overflow into the boat. Newmark,
clearing his vision as well as he could for lack of his glasses, saw
that the scow had evidently run her bow on an obstruction, and had
been brought to a standstill square beneath the sluice-gate. Men
seemed to be running toward them. The water was beginning to flow
the entire length of the boat. Various lighter articles shot past
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