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Updated: June 28, 2025
The best bateaux and Durhams were made with strong white oak bottoms and light fir sides. The bark canoe gave place to the boat, step by step, as civilized intercourse advanced. It disappeared first from the great national highway of the St Lawrence and the Lakes, where the French began using bateaux and sailing craft as early as the seventeenth century.
The number of the house was thirteen and we came here under gun fire on the 23rd. That meant bad luck to the Germans. Armentieres was a factory town. They made linen chiefly and there are several large weaving mills. The people were very friendly and cheered us along the way. We met a lot of English soldiers, the Westminsters, the Yorks, the Durhams and Sherwoods.
It didn't take us long to get after 'em, and in about an hour we found them. But the short-horned Durhams were missing." "The best cattle in the herd," interrupted Mr. Wilder. "Just what Pete said, but not in the same words," grinned Nails. "But how do you know they were stolen?" asked Bill. "Perhaps they only wandered off. You said the herd had been restless."
Cows, whether the fine old "line-backs" of the hills or scrawny, beefless Alderneys or milkless Durhams, have one merit with a boy. It is not that they enjoy fine weather, a good pasture and a green landscape have thoughts, notice the sprouting beanfields as they come up to milking, and the new flag-staff on the green: it is that they are good at fighting.
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