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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 411

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ise, overturning the canoe withhim. This was easy enough, or seemed so, al-though the knack of falling out of a canoe so thatthe craft tilts after you, instead of capsizing in 930 WHAT ONE MAN DID WITH A CANOE [Aug., clumsy fashion, is only acquired by practice, again in climbing back. If this was… … THE BACK FLIP. THE SIDE FLIP. easy. It required some skill, a lot of agility, and not to go too far from the banks when attempting a practical acquaintance with the eccentricities of his aquatic practice, for it might have been neces- a boat of the lightness and delicacy of build of sary to swim…

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