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If the cloth be made of cotton, it will soon swell so as to leak but very little, and answers a very good purpose. Another method of ferrying streams is by means of what is called by the mountaineers a "bull-boat," the frame-work of which is made of willows bent into the shape of a short and wide skiff, with a flat bottom.
Now it was pursuing her as she fled from it on a fleet pony; now it was stooping groundward, a huge, airy monster, to offer her a cake of ice; again it was sweeping over her, quenching the deadly fire that consumed her, and leaving her on the damp, green bank above the mooring-place of the bull-boat.
Two men can easily build a bull-boat of three hides in two days which will carry ten men with perfect safety. A small party traveling with a pack train and arriving upon the banks of a deep stream will not always have the time to stop or the means to make any of the boats that have been described.
The next moment he dragged the dog from under the bench by the scruff of the neck and hurled him out of the door; the next, he shook an admonishing finger in the very face of the thirteen unlucky freckles. LATE that afternoon, the eldest brother paddled across the sloughs in the bull-boat, and had a talk with the teacher.
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