Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 282
It was humili-ating and vexing to have to ask the long-legged,quick-footed Indians to halt every now and then,but I had to do it to get my breath. I found a new way to tax my lungs last sum-mer. It came in the course of paddling up aswift stream in a birchbark canoe. The straight-forward paddling… … CREEPING VINES CAUGHT OUK FEET AND THREW IS HEAVILY. back and we would glide along a little waywithout work, but there was always one point,of course, where we must force the boat againstthe full, strong, swift current. Ah, then came atug-of-war ! We would fight the current withstrong, vicious…
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