Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 193
had neither hand free to bail her out. The gunwale scraped past something with a it. In a couple of strokes he ran into a tangleof branches, and, grasping these, he managed tohaul himself out upon the trunk of a great tree —the floating object that had shipwrecked him. The tree pitched and gyrated… … HE WALKED KEARER, THE SOFT MUD AND THE STORM STILLING HIS AIPROACH. jar, then a monster object went staggering past,toppling over and over with terrific splashes. Itappeared to be a house, probably some river-sidecabin flooded from its foundations. Again Lou wondered where he was. Fardown-stream he…
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