Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 297William Blackwood, 1965 |
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... boat , trembling like a frightened steed , would inch for- ward , bit by bit , up , up and at last safe above the falls . As a small boy I had lived this life with my father , for both he and my grandfather had been boat captains , and ...
... boat , trembling like a frightened steed , would inch for- ward , bit by bit , up , up and at last safe above the falls . As a small boy I had lived this life with my father , for both he and my grandfather had been boat captains , and ...
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... boat ; but he wanted to see if there was a pool worth netting in the river , so he said . It was getting light , until I could just distinguish the slow swell churn- ing white among the boulders . Then there came a quick , cold blast of ...
... boat ; but he wanted to see if there was a pool worth netting in the river , so he said . It was getting light , until I could just distinguish the slow swell churn- ing white among the boulders . Then there came a quick , cold blast of ...
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... boat to lay in the bottom . One of the bombs slipped from our grasp and fell to the depths , stopping abruptly on a patch of rock . " Leave it , " said Hugo , strapping T.N.T. on to our captive bomb . 66 Can't bag everything . We've got ...
... boat to lay in the bottom . One of the bombs slipped from our grasp and fell to the depths , stopping abruptly on a patch of rock . " Leave it , " said Hugo , strapping T.N.T. on to our captive bomb . 66 Can't bag everything . We've got ...
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