Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 26
ow-boat and carrier along-side to exchange themail. This might beeasy for a boatman to do, but the prospect ofa steamers big black bow looming over him,coming full speed, and pushing a wall of foam-ing water fifty feet across right at him and hislittle cockle-shell, would make the ordinarycarrier… … KID1NG THE BOW WAVE BEFORE MAKING FAST distance of the steamers, but this would be de-laying the United States mail; so three prac-tical boatmen, accustomed to river work, wereput through the civil-serviceexamination, and it was ar-ranged that the little whitesteamer was to tow them outto the…
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