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 91
the beach, where the sea was rolling in with fearful fury.There was a strange fascination in watching the waves, as, oneafter another, they drew nearer, and finally snapped themselvesout, with a report like a cannon, and disappeared in a showerof spray. Toward evening they took a stroll across the… … The sun waswell out of his wa-tery bed before theboys awoke thenext morning. Inthe crisp Septem-ber air, blowing in fresh gusts down from the New-England hills, every object stoodout clear and distinct. Jack, as he put his head out of the barn-door, even insisted that he could see the Connecticut…
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