Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 241William Blackwood, 1937 - England |
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5 the sails . Doddie sat impassive on the bulwark rail. Doddie carrying it across the soft mud with the unconcern of long practice . When the water flowed into the rill , so high that the marsh plants stood up through it like sentinels ...
5 the sails . Doddie sat impassive on the bulwark rail. Doddie carrying it across the soft mud with the unconcern of long practice . When the water flowed into the rill , so high that the marsh plants stood up through it like sentinels ...
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... Doddie , used to fishing craft no longer in their first youth , thought it might be as well to sail down river and have her looked at by a shipwright . The report was bad . The smack was nail - sick , and most of the fastenings , merely ...
... Doddie , used to fishing craft no longer in their first youth , thought it might be as well to sail down river and have her looked at by a shipwright . The report was bad . The smack was nail - sick , and most of the fastenings , merely ...
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... Doddie his heart's desire and closed the creek as an anchorage . 1 In the early days of last autumn Mervyn bought a second smack , the beginning at last of a little fleet of his own . He went to the Black- water for her , and he and Doddie ...
... Doddie his heart's desire and closed the creek as an anchorage . 1 In the early days of last autumn Mervyn bought a second smack , the beginning at last of a little fleet of his own . He went to the Black- water for her , and he and Doddie ...
Contents
THE BRIDGE BY ROY FORSTER | 1 |
THE CHRONICLES OF LITTLE COVE | 46 |
THE KNIGHT OF THE CLOUD PALACE | 168 |
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