[Parkhurst Boys by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookParkhurst Boys CHAPTER THREE 7/15
Still, my hands tremble as I grasp the lines. "Adams," says Blades, "make my stretcher fast, will you ?" The voice of a human being close to me, somehow, has the effect of helping me to recover my wits completely; and as I kneel and make fast the stretcher, and then once again take my seat in the stern of the boat, I feel quite myself again, and wonder at myself for being such an ass. "Back water half a stroke!" calls out Mr Blunt to us from his skiff. We obey him, and then find the other boat is a little in front of us. We therefore move a quarter of a stroke forward.
Still the boats are not quite level.
The other boat must come back a foot or two.
Not quite enough; our boat must advance a few inches.
There, now they are level. "Are you ready ?" No, our boat has drifted forward again, and must be moved back.
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