O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 319
afterhours of entertainment and enjoyment, we compro-mised : we promised to return two days laterand make political speeches in Wilkesbarre ! Itwas then noon of ^Monday; we would go on ourway down the stream, and come back for Wednes-day night. From that moment we knew that a beauty haddeparted… … DOWN THE SUSQUEHANNA. 291 But we went along, and, in keeping with ournew prosaic feeling, we hooked on to a littlesteamer running down to Nanticoke, and escapednine miles of paddling. At Nanticoke we couldnot cross the dam, — so we went into the canalwhich ])egins there. Deeper and deeper we…
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