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)
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and make for shore, just at atime when their leaving would block the whole thing. So theycast off the line. But it was not a storm that came : it was atornado. The girls and boys all drew a little nearer. Late that day, the life-saving crew at Bridgehampton madeout that all was not right aboard.… … that was certain. We found out afterwards that she had broken 8o A FEARFUL NIGHT. her back. Still no one ashore felt uneasy (for they knew howstrong she was) until about eight oclock, when they made outthat one of her masts was gone. That showed that she wasbreaking up ; and then the life-crew at…
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