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Updated: May 19, 2025
I have said I was but a very little boy at the time just big enough to go about, and just of that age when boys take to sailing paper-boats. I knew how to construct these out of the leaf of an old book, or a piece of a newspaper; and often had I sent them on voyages across the duck-pond, which was my ocean.
Rounding the Islet, and accompanied by curious canoes like paper-boats, and by fishing-craft which bounded over the waves like dolphins, we spun by the Puerto de la Luz, a line of flat-topped whitewashed houses, the only remarkable feature being the large and unused Lazaretto. A few barques still lie off the landing-place, where I have been compelled more than once to take refuge.
"Wrote a letter to 'Yacht' about invention of paper-boats." In October he began to write for "Le Yacht" a history of catamarans, which was highly appreciated by the readers of that paper. Ernest George's etchings. He also worked at the autobiography. It was a real sorrow for my husband to hear that in consequence of the demise of Mr.
I may ay, I had got a step beyond the mere paper-boats: with my six months' stock of pocket-money, which I had saved for the purpose, I had succeeded in purchasing a full-rigged sloop, from an old fisherman, who had "built" her during his hours of leisure.
My small caller occupied herself with these for a flattering length of time, then she said: "You played with these what else did you play with?" "I made paper-boats," I replied; "and sailed them. I will show you how," I added. She watched me with interest while I folded and refolded a sheet of writing-paper until it became a boat. "There!" I said, handing it to her.
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