Martin and Padraic are building a raft. It's their most exciting construction project yet and has almost nothing to do with being forced to read 'Huckleberry Finn' at school. Their initial plan is to sail it into town on a hot, sunny day and eat ice-creams on it and let all their friends swim off it and be the most popular lads in town. But by the time the raft is finished it's almost Halloween and it's bloody freezing, so they make a new plan.