Nelly and Her Boat
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ISBN10: 1151423696
ISBN13: 9781151423696
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.04 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781151423696
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.04 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. RUNNING AGROUND. There was a hollow tree on the beach near where the Zelma was moored, and in this Nelly kept her oars, to avoid dragging them up and down the bank to the house every time she wanted them. When they were in the tree, no one could easily discover them, the cavity was so long; and thus they were securely hidden from any of the idle boys that sometimes strolled along there to play among the sand and stones. Many were the happy days Nelly passed in her boat. Martin gave her a few lessons in managing it, as soon as she was well enough to take them; and with practice, and careful attention, she soon grew to be an expert rower; so much so, that her mother graduallyceased to feel anxious when she knew she was on the river. The summer days were at this time very balmy and clear. Nelly's vacation appeared, on the whole, to be a very pleasant one. Sometimes, as sitting alone in her boat, she paddled up and down the stream in the cool shadow of its banks, and watched the sun setting on the opposite shore, and listened to the twittering of the floods of swallows as they dived to the water's surface in flying across, she almost wished that it might be vacation forever. Three times a week Bessie came with her basket full of butter, for the purpose of being rowed down to the house of her aunt. Mrs. Brooks gave her consent to this arrangement only on condition that Bessie should promise to sit very still, and on no account attempt to touch the oars. Besides this, Nelly had orders to keep close in shore, where the water was shallow, whenever Bessie was in the boat. Nelly had grown very wise and careful since her sickness, and she endeavored to be as prudent as she could; she exercised over Bessie a motherly care, very amusing to see in one as ...