Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 372
y implements of sharpness on my per-sonage. And of what use were they? I didnot need to fish for the bear; I had alreadycaught him too securely; and I could notcarve him until he was dead, and there wasno way of deadening him with just a knife.My thoughts were not very expeditious. However, despair… … 234 THE TRUCE OF THE RAPIDS (Jan. Whittling is a great avenue to thought, par-ticularly when ones tabac has got wet. AndI sat there at my end of the island makinglong white slivers of birch and watching themfall into the current, eddy around once ortwice, then sweep out into the stream like avessel…
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