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Roy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp

CHAPTER IV
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Oh, boy, didn't I sit down on the barrel and read that article through! First, I looked to see the date of the paper and I saw it was a couple of days old.

After I read that article I cut it out, because I knew I was going to tell you about all these things.

So here it is now for you to read: FISHERMEN HAVE HARROWING ADVENTURE The fishing schooner Stella B arrived in port to-day with two castaways, who had drifted for three days in an open boat in the stormy waters off Rockaway.

The two men, Mike Corby and Dan McCann, hail from Jersey, and were carried out to sea in their twenty-two foot launch from about a mile south of Sea Gate, where they were fishing.
Their engine broke down and their small boat, beaten by the waves, was leaking rapidly when they were picked up.

One of the men was unconscious from lack of nourishment and the other in a state of utter exhaustion from bailing, in an all but futile effort to keep the frail little craft above water.


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