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Parkhurst Boys

CHAPTER THREE
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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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