Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in (1880)
Markham, Richard. · New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co. · leaf 104
e charge of ourparty; and my father then requested permission to cross over toMount Independence, to deposit his load. He gave me privateinstructions to follow him, at all hazards. The officer jumpedinto my sleigh, and stood up in it. My father led the way, anddrove down hill at full speed in… … CARRYING TROOPS INTO CANADA. A NEW SORT OF GUIDE-BOARD. 107 dash on in the most furious manner. The officer, in full dress,and not relishing the strange manoeuvre, nor even understandingit, thought proper to jump out of the sleigh, and, in doing so,described a parabolic curve, or rather a long…
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