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He stood before the dirt-begrimed window through which alone the struggling sunbeams found an inlet into the gloomy little attic, and looked wistfully out upon the barren fields that surrounded the poorhouse. Where would he be on the morrow at that time? He did not know. He knew little or nothing of the great world without, yet his resolution did not for an instant falter.
"Is my doll really, really, drowned?" cried Violet. "I I'm afraid I guess so," stammered Russ. "But maybe I can fish her up again when the tide is low," he added hopefully. "Do it now," sobbed the little girl. "The water's too deep now." "Where did she get drowned?" asked Violet, gazing through her tears at the waters of the inlet. "The boat upset out there in the middle," said Russ, pointing.
"Then why can't I stay? I shall have to be quarantined, I know that. Let me be the other nurse. Why should anyone else run the risk? I HAVE run it. I'll stay." Dr. Parker looked at him. "Well!" he exclaimed. "Well! I must say, young man, that you've got Humph! All right, Mr. Ellery; I'm much obliged." Before sunset that afternoon the San Jose was anchored behind the point by the inlet.
Nevertheless, we made haste to be off; and fortunately, for just as we were leaving the shore, a faint smoke was seen across the inlet, toward which Charley, who now seemed lost, gladly steered.
Can you see why the explorers would search each bay or inlet or great river? Find how far into the continent of North America the French explored the St. Lawrence river, that is, the distance from Newfoundland to Montreal by using the scale of miles on a map in one of your geographies. Important Date: 1565. The founding of St. Augustine.
Even Ruth Fielding had paid no attention to the warning of the Reef Island hermit regarding a change in the weather, in spite of the fact that she was anxious to return to the camp near Herringport. It was not until the Stazy was outside the inlet late in the afternoon that Skipper Phil Gordon noted the threatening signs in sea and sky. "That's how it goes," the one-armed mariner said.
A merry party they were; and the salt water was rapidly drying from the garments of the colored oars-man, as he pulled strongly and skilfully out into the bay, and around toward a deep cove at the north of the inlet mouth. Then, indeed, for the first time in his life, Ford Foster learned what it was to catch fish.
We tried sounding the hole with poles, but could make nothing of it. The water seemed to have no outlet nor inlet; at least, it did not rise or fall. Why should the solid hill give way at this place, and swallow up a tree? and if the water had any connection with the lake, two hundred feet below and at some distance away, why didn't the water run out?
"We go to Lake George sometimes, and I have tried rowing in the smaller streams there." "And I have always known how to row," replied Louise emphatically. "That being the case I suppose I must make the crabbing party unanimous," capitulated Cleo, "although I should not enjoy a spill out here so near the inlet."
Round and round the lake, into every inlet, close under the shadows of the islands; again and again, over every mile of that treacherous, glassy, beautiful water, he rowed, calling every few moments, in heart-breaking tones, "Hetty! Hetty! Hetty! I am here, Hetty!"
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