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He looked out over the placid, unbroken surface of the sand-bar and saw the end of the broken rope coiled loosely where Old Blue had been drawn under. A few yards away the white felt hat Carolyn June had tossed to one side, to be a mute and pathetic messenger of her fate, when she thought death was certain, still rested on the smooth surface of the sand.
Rogers gave with a lavish hand, but few of his benefactions, comparatively, were known. The newspapers have made much of his throwing a hawser to Mark Twain and towing the Humorist off a financial sand-bar. Also, we have heard how he gave Helen Keller to the world; for without the help of H. H. Rogers that wonderful woman would still be like unto the eyeless fish in the Mammoth Cave.
The Mugger was lying on the sand-bar as still as his own shadow, his fore-feet spread out a little, his head dropped between them, snoring like a mugger. A voice on the bridge whispered: "It's an odd shot straight down almost but as safe as houses. Better try behind the neck. Golly! what a brute! The villagers will be wild if he's shot, though.
I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest, but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of a storm." "You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms."
They made up their minds to go on until they should reach this bar. At its end appeared a proper place for the periagua to come to, and take them aboard. The craft was still working up stream, and had got nearly opposite them, so that they could hail it. They did so desiring the popero, or steersman, to put in at the extremity of the sand-bar.
See this?" and Tad tossed to Darwood the rusty stone that he had found in the sand-bar. "Gold! A nugget of pure gold," breathed Darwood. "Where did you get it?" "Perhaps we found the Taku Pass." "And we've lost it," groaned Dawson. "We'll fight for it, then!" shouted Darwood. "You might wait until there's need for fighting, Mr. Darwood," said Tad contemptuously.
Volk, are well worth reproducing here. "One morning in April, 1860," says Mr. Volk, "I noticed in the paper that Abraham Lincoln was in Chicago, retained as one of the counsel in a 'Sand-bar' trial in which the Michigan Central Railroad was either plaintiff or defendant. I at once decided to remind him of his promise to sit to me, made two years before.
It was as he had said, and soon, in a little sand-bar, we saw the place where the animal had stopped. "You see," he said, "this was a big deer; here are his tracks; here he stopped at the edge of the water to drink; and then he went on across the river, for there are no tracks leading back to the bank.
A line of breakers trended parallel to the water's edge, scarce a cable's length from the shore, and not two hundred yards from the spot where they had come to a pause. They were not very formidable breakers, only the tide rolling over a sand-bar, or a tiny reef of rocks.
"I am to take you to Fort o' God," he said, fighting to keep the tremble of joy out of his voice. "And you you must guide me." "It is far up the Churchill," she replied, understanding the question he intended. "It is two hundred miles from the Bay." He put his strength into his paddle for ten minutes, and then ran the canoe into shore fully half a mile above the sand-bar.
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