Shortly after daylight the next morning they were astir, to find the rain had ceased but that the field was a mass of ooze.  Through this Tom made his way to the cobblestone street and down to the piers.  But the coasting steamer had not yet arrived; in fact, she did not come in until after eight o'clock, and it was two hours later before the flyers succeeded in getting their tanks filled with the gasoline she had brought.  Then it was found necessary to secure the aid of a half-dozen negroes, and to lay down many strips of heavy bark for traction, before the Sky-Bird could be run out of her mired position.