Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484
sten a long tow to her saddle-band. The tow-was long enough to reach from the water up to thewicker basket, and while the mule swam the river,the people in the basket pulled at the rope justenough to steady her, so that the current shouldnot carry her away. While they guided her over we waited on… … THE CURIOUS KOPE-BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIO BELIZE. ten minutes he caught four pickerel, and a black,frog-headed fish of a kind we had never seen before.The next time he threw in his line, he had a bitealmost as soon as he touched the water, and, as hejerked it in, we could see by the squirming…
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