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I'll show you where you can come in so you won't hit a rock." Hutchins had stopped the engine of the motor boat and we threw out the anchor at a safe distance from the shore. "We are not going to land," said Tish, "and I think you know perfectly well the reason why." "Oh, now," he protested; "surely you are going to land! I've had an awfully uncomfortable accident my canoe's gone."
I heard the whoop again; it was behind me yet, but in a different place; it kept coming, and kept changing its place, and I kept answering, till by and by it was in front of me again, and I knowed the current had swung the canoe's head down-stream, and I was all right if that was Jim and not some other raftsman hollering.
C'est magnifique! O I wish you were with me, Violette, ma chere. It is so delightful to go round and round. A little way beyond, not more than twice the canoe's length, rushed by, roaring, the full tide of the river. 'Beware, Marie, beware, for the love of heaven, of the river.
Can you paddle faster?" The canoe's bows lifted out of a wisp of foam as Thirlwell swung the paddle, and in a few minutes he helped the girl to land. After this, their acquaintance ripened fast and Agatha went fishing with him on the lake and, by disused logging trails, long distances into the shadowy bush.
Tom still had the paddle when he shot the canoe in close to the camp. "Any luck?" called Dave, who had already returned with a string of perch. "Catch any bass?" was Dick's question. "Did you even see anything?" laughed Greg Holmes. "Did we see anything?" groaned Tom, as he sent the canoe's prow to land.
Now it careered and plunged over the waves where the rough bed of the stream made them more than usually turbulent. Anon it flew with increased rapidity through a narrow gap where the compressed water was smooth and black, but deep and powerful, rendering great care necessary to prevent the canoe's frail sides from being dashed on the rocks.
By and by a puff of cool wind touched his hot skin and he looked round. A black cloud had rolled up and there were lines on the water. "We may get a blow and some thunder," he remarked. "Shall we go back?" "Not yet. We'll make the point first. If it does thunder, summer storms don't last." He paddled harder and a small white wave lapped the canoe's bows.
* This utterance of Dragging Canoe's is generally supposed to be the origin of the descriptive phrase applied to Kentucky "the Dark and Bloody Ground." See Roosevelt, "The Winning of the West," vol. I, p.229.
A dozen beaver skins to one, every canoe's got a load of those red rascals stretched on their backs well out of sight." "You may be right," said the other, shaking his head. "It looks as if there might be some ugly work before us. They say the Major has ordered the whole garrison under arms. Even the shops are closed and the traders armed to the teeth."
To Thompson if he had been capable of analyzing his sensations and transmuting them into words the river seemed inexplicably sinister, a turbid monster writhing over polished boulders, fuming here and there over rapids, snarling a constant menace under the canoe's prow.
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