Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 320
d topractice a little now, while he s away, and thenI 11 show him how well I can do it. When hesees me gliding across the bayou, he 11 wish hehad nt acted so superior! Now a Brazilian canoe is much the shape of acrescent moon, both ends alike and out of water,with no keel and no rudder. It is… … 780 ON THE EDGE OF THE AMAZON [July, larger ones, took the odd little paddle in herhand, and stepped in. As she put her weight onthe thwartless craft, the skittish thing, as if justawakened, gave a vicious lurch, and Carol satdown solidly and unexpectedly: in her surprise,the paddle went overboard,…
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