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"That's true," replied Sylvia. "Come on, Minty." The child's round eyes were fixed solemnly on some point beyond Sylvia's shoulder. "I don't know as I care 'bout goin' boatin' this mornin'," she replied decorously. "What?" returned Sylvia, astonished. She remembered now how remarkably quiet the child had been throughout breakfast. "Why, how do you feel, Minty?"
'Mary Jane, Peterkin continued, 'had a gold-headed shawl pin, with a small diamond in the head real, too, for I don't b'lieve in shams, and haint sense the day I quit boatin' and hauled ther 'Liza Ann up inter my back yard. Well, she left this pin stickin' in her shawl, and no one up there but this boy of that Crawford gal's, and nobody knows who else.
They who had expected that the settlement was waiting breathlessly for their rescue, who anticipated that they would be welcomed as heroes, were obliged to meet the ill-concealed amusement of passengers and friends at their dishevelled and bedraggled appearance, which suggested only the blundering mishaps of an ordinary summer outing! "Boatin' in the reservoir, and fell in?"
I dabbled a little in ile, and if I do say it, I could about buy up the whole canal if I wanted to; but I ain't an atom proud, and I don't forget the old boatin' days, and I've got the old 'Liza Ann hauled up inter my back yard as a relict. The children use it for a play-house, but to me it is a a what do you call it? a gol darn it, what is it?
"I reckon he'll need a good many to feed all that's comin'," returned Bolderwood, non-committingly. "Wall, I can't lend ye both, sir," declared the old man. "The canoe wouldn't do ye much good, though 'tis a master big one. Seems ter me there's a good deal o' boatin' on the lake to-day. I seen two barges go along north a'ready. Folks goin' fishin' I s'pose."
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