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Updated: May 7, 2025
"The fish must have plunged into the underground river, whether willingly or not I can only surmise. But all the while I was drifting yonder, around and around, with each circuit drawing closer to the awful end, I could not help picturing to myself how the canoe must have plunged down, and down, and burr-r-r!"
Suddenly the Morse sounder began to tick and burr-r-r; the boy's eyes flashed, and his heart gave an exultant bound the first wireless message had been sent and received, and a new marvel had been added to the list of world's wonders.
One may haul on to the reins for half an hour without inducing the pony to pull up, but the magic sound of the "burr-r-r" uttered by the skydsgut will cause the little beast to stop dead. And he will not go on again until he hears the peculiar click of his master's tongue.
Poor old Mary Ellen, we'll soon see the last of her, I expect." "Burr-r-r!" exclaimed Mr. Sneed as he shifted his helm. "Don't talk that way. It sounds rather prophetic, you know, seeing the last of the ship, and all that, you know." "Well, I meant that they're going to sink her. You knew that, didn't you?" "Oh, yes, worse luck! I'm to be one of the last to jump over the side, I believe.
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