Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 417
eads in front of him, knew that he must swerveto the south or chance crashing into the boat. 904 THE COCKSWAIN [Aug., White-faced and trembling, the boy tuggedfrantically on his starboard line. Perhaps fearmade him pull too hard; at any rate, the shellbegan to point sharply toward the shore,… … THEY LIFTED THE DRIPPING SHELL FROM THE WATER. had been so far ahead that now he realized, withabsolute certainty, he had blundered. Over to the right the Coulter shell crawledahead. Franklin called upon Brown for a spurt,and the big stroke-oar bent to his work. Inch byinch they crept up, outrowing…
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