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She was sometimes shocked quite as she had shocked Gopher Prairie by these girls with their cigarettes and elfish knowledge. When they were most eager about soviets or canoeing, she listened, longed to have some special learning which would distinguish her, and sighed that her adventure had come so late.
"You'll have to wear rough flannels and old clothes," added Randy. "You can't take kid gloves and patent leathers with you." "And you'll have to sleep on the ground," put in Clay, "and eat coarse food. No chocolate cake and ice cream about canoeing." "Oh, stop your chaffing," drawled Nugget sullenly. "I understand all that. I'm not as green as you think. If you fellows can stand it I can.
The ideal playground system will have enough room in walks and landscape-gardening for park development sufficient to meet the community's maximum needs. Community physical-fitness centers are growing up in which an adjacent lake or river provides facilities for rowing, canoeing, and recreational enjoyment through breathing the fresh air, while taking regular physical, conditioning exercises.
The truth of this terse remark was readily appreciated by Clay's companions, and their present amazement and consternation on learning that Nugget wanted to go canoeing with them, can be easily conceived. "Are you in dead earnest, Nugget?" asked Randy after a pause. "Of course I am," was the aggressive reply. "I don't see anything funny about it though.
On the evening of November seventh, he landed at Saybrook light, sixteen days from Stratford Hollow. The winter of 1879 and 1880 was spent in Florida, hunting, fishing, alligator shooting and canoeing. He and a party of friends made a canoe voyage far up on the St.
Had not the Eskimo whom Johnny employed to take him to the Arctic metropolis with his dog team been a marvel at skirting rotten ice and water holes in Port Clarence Bay, at swimming the floods on Tissure River, and at canoeing across the flooded Sinrock, Johnny might never have reached his journey's end.
But the flat bottom made her very stiff, and for river work she was better than anything I had yet tried. She was too heavy, however, always weighing from 45 to 50 pounds and awkward to carry. My last canoe of this style went down the Susquehanna with an ice jam in the spring of '79, and in the meantime canoeing began to loom up.
His face was illumined, and no man could have seen him then without knowing that this was a true heart's worship of a true God, who is in all things He has made. Canoeing on the Upper Hudson There is only one kind of a man I can't size up; that's the faller that shets up and says nothing. Sayings of Si Sylvanne.
Pleasure seeking at Murray Bay. A fisherman's experience in 1830. New visitors. Fishing in a mountain lake. Camp life. The Upper Murray. Canoeing. Running the rapids. Walks and drives. Golf. A rainy day. The habitant and his visitors.
Coming now to aquatic sports as distinguished from pastimes ashore, I feel that I am better qualified to speak authoritatively, having had more experience in that direction. Let us start with canoeing. Canoeing is a sport fraught with constant surprises.
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