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 163
r, and allthat sort of thing. These men did not go for a lark, as you would call it,said Mrs. Longwood. They had to pole great heavy bateauxagainst the current all day, sometimes stopping to carry thebaggage on their backs around rapids. When night came, they 164 A SUDDEN COLD BATH. were glad… … A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. At length, after days and days of toil, the little armyreached the head-waters of the Kennebec, where the stream wasto be left, and the forest crossed that lay between them and thehead-waters of the Chaudiere. And now they were in perilindeed. They were too far along to go back,…
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