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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 52

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wn. At last, apparentlyafter much confusion but really in accordancewith a careful system, all the keel-blocks areknocked away, and the supreme moment has wrecked as she goes sliding down toward thewater. She is held entirely by the stout pieceof timber that clamps the stationary and slidingways… … THE PAINTERS, WITH LONG BRUSHES, DAUB THE PLACES WHERE THE PROPS RESTED. arrived. All the wedges have been drivenhome, and their outer edges are in a line asstraight as a file of soldiers on dress parade.The ship rests on an entirely new foundationand a very treacherous one. There are…

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