Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 107
y do those wooden lips close over a manwhen he has gone down. Nothing is more treach-erous, unless it be the sawdust which spreads it-self so like a sandy beach at the rivers edge thatpeople have stepped upon it and plunged under. Itadds its own poison gas to the danger of drowning. Both lumbermen… … Sally screamed to him from the bridge. Helooked up, then looked down, and saw what threat-ened him as he took the plunge. The first cribwhich had gone over had broken up, and thetimbers were floating at right angles in all direc-tions. His single thought was how it would shamehim to be drowned in a…
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