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You can get plenty of them at Port Henry." "Have you any money in your pocket?" "They wouldn't cost more than a hundred dollars." "I haven't got even fifty dollars," said Lawry. "They would trust you on the security of your steamer." "I don't want to be trusted for any such purpose. What would you do with your canal-boats when you had got them?" asked Lawry.
Canal-boats, drawn by mules, swim by, feeling their way along like blind men led by dogs.
She passed the Battery and up the East River, craft of all kinds getting out of her way, for it was obvious that something was wrong with her, until, rounding slowly to a starboard wheel, with canvas rattling and running-gear in bights, she headed straight for a slip partly filled with canal-boats.
They turned somersaults from the decks of the canal-boats; some of the boys could turn double somersaults, and one boy got so far as to turn a somersault and a half; it was long before the time of electric lighting, but when he struck the water there came a flash that seemed to illumine the universe. I am afraid that the Young People will think I am telling them too much about swimming.
I now commenced an unexciting row of forty-two miles to Bordentown, on the Delaware, where this artificial watercourse ends. This canal is much travelled by steam tugs towing schooners of two hundred tons, and by barges and canal-boats of all sizes drawing not above seven feet and a half of water.
When the girls saw these sharp-prowed, graceful ships, with their tapering masts and pretty sails, their eyes glistened, and they declared that never before had they seen anything so lovely. Their, pride in their canal-boats suffered a woful downfall. The boys proposed to try all the vessels on the canal at the back of the house, but Greta objected.
More houses have been blown from their foundations than canal-boats sunk, provided ordinary care has been taken to protect them." "And you think the canal-boat would be healthy?" asked the Doctor. "How about dampness and all that?" "That is a professional question," returned the Idiot, "which I think you could answer better than I. I don't see why a canal-boat shouldn't be healthy, however.
"That fellow was waiting for us," exclaimed George in surprise. "I believe that Mr. Button knew all the time that he was to be here." "Well, what do you make of it?" inquired Grant. "I don't know what to make of it. That man and a lot of his friends from the canal-boats force their way on board the Black Growler and leave only when they are scared by the coming of the Caledonia.
She had been consulting the copy of Badger's and Porter's Register which Ferris had thrust into her satchel the morning she left the Barony, and which, among a multiplicity of detail as to hotels and taverns, gave the runnings of all the regular stage lines, packets, canal-boats and steamers, by which one could travel over the length and breadth of the land.
Food, moldy, filthy, is accumulated on the wharves of Washington, Baltimore, and Alexandria that would be forbidden as infectious in any carefully guarded port in the world. Contracts for vessels have been signed where steamships are called for, and the contractor sends canal-boats.
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