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Identifier: outing58newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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tt bought a 224 l*mm SHALLOWS WERE FREQUENT AND MADE WADING NECESSARY. spring chicken on faith and dressed it,saying that he would have a barbecue.This, with. an enormous lump of ice,was added to our load. Once launched again below the dam,we found that what we had begun tosuspect was really true. The stream be-came rougher as it descended, and it de-scended very rapidly. Its temper grewworse with age. We were hurried overrolling pebbles and jammed againstboulders. Then we nearly capsized un-der a bridge which we had not had time to foresee. The tame Hoosier streamhad disclosed Canadian blood, and wasfilled with rocks, sand bars, and eddies.When the shopworn amateurs realizedthis they rearranged themselves. TheElder settled his bulky form into therear seat and pushed with a stick, whilethe younger men stood up and shoveddesperately with the tent poles to keepin the current. Did you ever ride a runaway ele-phant through the thick timber? It waslike that. The boat resembled a skittish^5
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THE ELDER WAS KEPT BUSY BAILING. cow entered in a horse race. Shepranced sideways, she refused to beguided, she tried to go through impos-sible openings. On tolerably longstretches she would develop some speed;then she would not be turned, but wouldrun ashore and try to climb a bank.Where a canoe would have followed thechannel gracefully and easily, the row-boat was determined to cut across thesand bars. We seemed to have bidden a hastygood-bye to civilization. For many mileswe did not see a fence, road, or field.The country became swampy and thicklyovergrown with tall grasses and lowlandtrees, which crowded the banks andleaned far overhead. The shores weresometimes mere bogs, sometimes uprightbanks of red earth, with huge slabs split-ting off and leaning to their fall into theriver. It was strange to think of thisluxurious and illegal swamp in the heartof a section noted for piety and rich farm-ing land. The stream rushed along over a sandybottom—a thing for which I cannot ac-count

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