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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 205

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OVER THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE HE SLIPPED 801 802 OVER THE PRECIPICE [June finny tribe. But if sharks were the myste-rious pursuers, they failed to show themselves.Shortly, the leaping fish appeared a mereripple in the distance, heading toward theGolden Gate. By this time Wilbur gave up all hope… … IT was a large striped bass jumping, evidently PURSUED BY SOME SEA TERROR made some progress northward along theabrupt line of cliff, but he could not be surewhether he had covered an eighth or a quar-ter of a mile. The icy water had begun tonumb his limbs, and the fright caused by thejumping fish…

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