Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 448
sers, saidAmos, and stop the leaks, or we shall be drowned.Mine are too thick cloth. He took out his jack-knife as quick as ever hecould, and cut pieces from their trowsers, andstuffed the pieces into the cracks. Even this didnot wholly keep the water from coming in; so, justas soon as they got… … THE LITTLE BOVS, HALF CRYING, HELD FAST BY THE SIDES OF THE BOAT. the ground behind a log, and covered them withdry sea-weed. He let the Jimmies have a part ofwhat were in their handkerchiefs. They all startedthen to walk along the sands. As the jackets weretoo wet to be worn, each boy carried his…
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