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They had come to a long piece of corduroy-road, and the horse's hoofs struck rumbling hollow sounds from the floor of cedar logs. There was a swamp on one side where fire-flies were flickering, and there flashed into Charley Steele's mind some verses he had once learned at school: "They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true "
The ricketty buck-board, which was their first vehicle, seemed luxurious, though after a few miles' jogging over a corduroy-road she confided to Joseph that she preferred a canoe. "Umm. No shakeum up."
They had come to a long piece of corduroy-road, and the horse's hoofs struck rumbling hollow sounds from the floor of cedar logs. There was a swamp on one side where fire-flies were flickering, and there flashed into Charley Steele's mind some verses he had once learned at school: "They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true "
"I don't care," said Harry, shaking himself like a dog; "I don't mind being wet, and, now I am wet, I mean to have the eggs." "No, don't," said Fred, "you'll sink in." "No, I shan't," said Harry; "I mean to make a corduroy-road, like they do over the swamps in America, that we read about." "Ah, that will be capital," said Philip; "come on."
And so the lads set to work, and in amongst the trees close by they soon found a large dead branch, and laid it down across the first soft place, and they very soon would have had a firm pathway to the moorhen's nest, but for the simple reason that they were not provided with woodcutter's axes, ropes, etc; the consequence was, that they could find no more wood fit for the purpose, and Harry's corduroy-road was composed only of one cord.
Give yourself a drink and some supper" he put a dollar into the man's hand "and no white whiskey, mind: a bottle of beer and a leg of mutton, that's the thing." He nodded his head, and by the light of the moon walked away smartly down the corduroy-road through the shadows of the swamp. Finn the groom looked after him. "Well, if he ain't a queer dick!
Give yourself a drink and some supper" he put a dollar into the man's hand "and no white whiskey, mind: a bottle of beer and a leg of mutton, that's the thing." He nodded his head, and by the light of the moon walked away smartly down the corduroy-road through the shadows of the swamp. Finn the groom looked after him. "Well, if he ain't a queer dick!
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