Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 108
e beach withour pocket-knives out and making the chips fly.There were plenty of bits of board there, and,selecting pieces over a foot long and some six a note-book Andy had with him, were wrappedin the greasy paper which had covered theham and pinned or fastened to the boats. Then we set afloat our… … there we set afloat cur miniature craft. inches wide, we rapidly shaped them into thesemblance of boats by sharpening one end. Within a half-hour twenty of these roughlyfashioned craft were lying on the beach. Anumber of newspapers, which we had broughtashore the first night for kindling fires,…
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