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 211
t came, and each rug was hauled down ; two, andeach boy leaped into his hammock. There was a momentssilence, and then a crash. The bosun had leaped too far,overshot his mark, and come headlong to the floor. The others,as they turned cautiously, to prevent following his example, sawtheir bosun,… … The untiring sun, whenagain it looked clown onFort Pond Bay, saw TheMavis K ing there as idlyas if it had not stirred fromthe position in which it wastwenty-four hours before.And there were as fewsigns of life about it nowas then. But presently thefive boys emerged togetherfrom their quarters.…
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