Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 361
into the bay like a frightened flock cf sheep. The sailboat could now stand only the mainsail,and even with that it reeled and tumbled aboutfearfully in the hands of its unskilled crew, andtwo or three times it was nearly driven ashore, forthe men seemed quite unable to make it beat upinto the… … CHARLIE BROUGHT THE BOW OF THE BOAT TO THE MAN IN THE WATER AND TOOK HIM ABOARD. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) out in my rowboat, to see what kind of a rough-water boat she might be. Though I knew himto be both a good oarsman and a good swimmer,and though the boat had always behaved admi-rably in a sea, I…
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