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All eyes were directed at a canoe in which three Indians were busy fishing, while a fourth sat in the stern keeping the craft straight by dipping his paddle and giving it a swoop from time to time. They were some three hundred yards ahead, just off a pile of massive rounded rocks which jutted out into the river, and evidently gliding with the current in the same direction as the two boats.
And still Frona held the egg-shell with a hand of steel. What they gained they held, and fought for more, inch by inch, dip and lift; and all would have been well but for the flutter of Tommy's soul. A cake of ice, sucked beneath by the current, rose under his paddle with a flurry of foam, turned over its toothed edge, and was dragged back into the depths.
Sunshine, which gives life to most things, is absolutely fatal to wet paddle blades. It was hard walking. The woods were swampy in places and there were very few paths. But almost as soon as they landed they saw signs of the moose.
I had secured two long outriggers at each end of my log, to prevent it from turning round; the tendrils of the wild vine served me as rope. The time arrived to launch forth. With all my strength shoving the log into the water, I took my seat on it, and with might and main using my paddle, I worked on my rough canoe towards the schooner.
"'Twas wuth more'n that just to look at her." The time had been when I should have agreed with Thoph. Sitting in the canoe, bare-headed, her hair tossing in the breeze, and her rounded arms swinging the light paddle, she was a sight for sore eyes, doubtless. But it was not my eyes which were sore, just then. I watched her for a moment and then bent over my engine.
They dive under their boats, and then set them to rights with their paddle; they learn to glide over the roughest billows, and face the greatest dangers with intrepidity, till in the end they acquire sufficient strength and address to fish for themselves, and to be admitted into the class of men. Harry. Pray, sir, is this the country where men travel about upon sledges that are drawn by dogs?
He "guessed, therefore, best haul off," and each here Bunce showed his respect for his new friends by quoting their phraseology "must paddle his own canoe."
"Anything we can do for you, friend?" bawled Dan Dalzell, in his most resonant tone. Only the mocking echoes of their own questions came back to them. "Beat the water with the paddle. Danny," advised Reade after they had waited for some moments. "We've more than a mile to go. Whip up the water. If you get tired, pass the paddle back to me."
The father of Chris went with them. They fished from a flat boat. The two boys had to push the boat to the fishing place with poles. "I am tired of poling that boat," said Robert to Chris one day when they came home. So he set to work to think out a plan to move the boat in an easier way than by poles. He whittled out the model of a tiny paddle wheel.
The Indian gravely raised his paddle, and pointed in the direction in which his own steady look was riveted. Duncan's eyes followed the motion. A few rods in their front lay another of the low wooded islets, but it appeared as calm and peaceful as if its solitude had never been disturbed by the foot of man. "I see nothing," he said, "but land and water; and a lovely scene it is."
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