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Looking to his left, he saw a hut hardly larger than a dog kennel but ingeniously thatched with bamboo leaves. Then his glance was caught and held by a curious contrivance of interwoven thorn branches and creepers, fitted into a high narrow opening in the trunk of the baobab. "What's that? hollow tree?" he asked. "Yes," answered Blake, without turning. "Sixteen-foot room inside.
In the yard, Mitchell the foreman, gave him a load "of sixteen-foot" pine boards and "two by fours". "Where to?" the driver asked, as he took his seat on top the load. "To the jail, they're going to fence the yard." "You mean young John North?" "That's what, did you think you'd get a day off and take the old woman and the kids?" asked Mitchell.
"Come to my room at three," said Hardy; "I will begin to teach you how to fish. I have a lighter fly rod, and we will prepare the tackle." After dinner John Hardy and the boys went to the river. Hardy had a sixteen-foot minnow rod, and put up a twelve-foot fly rod for the boys, and showed them how to cast it. They took it in turns, and Karl caught a trout.
"How does it go?" asked Max, who was in a sixteen-foot canvas canoe like the one Steve handled so dexterously; while Bandy-legs, fearing to trust to anything so frail, had insisted on getting one of the older type lapstreak cedar boats, that were so marvelously beautiful in his eyes. "Fine as silk!" announced Steve, from up ahead. "Ditto here!" echoed Toby, and Owen added his words of praise.
Instead of being obliged to draw up their scaling-ladders, or risk the sixteen-foot drop to the hard surface of the enclosure, they had only to jump onto the banquette and from thence to the ground.
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