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 74
here was nothing to be done but wait for daylight. When that came, the snow held up a little, and matterslooked better. The sea had been pounding her on the bar, andhad driven her shoreward quite a ways ; and the tide had goneout, so that the beach was not under water, and we could bringthe mortar… … CARRYING A LINE ABOARD, THE OLD WAY. A HAPPY RELEASE. 77 down enough to launch a boat ; and so, in six or seven trips,we brought the whole forty men safely ashore. But I thought they were all drowned, said Gertrude, inastonishment. That was later, said Thomas John ; when the CoastWrecking Company…
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