StNicholas [serial] . r a canoewith its bow grounded on the beach and its sternafloat is something you cant take liberties , balancing himself in the stern, forgot thisfact for a moment, and when he remembered it hewas sitting in the water and Roy and Dick werehowling gleefully. Strange to say, this misad-venture restored Chubs good-nature, and, aftersitting for a minute up to his waist in the waterand laughing at his predicament, he jumped updripping, and hauled the canoe up the unloaded the rowboat, depositing tent andpoles and supplies on the sand, and then consid-ered t
StNicholas [serial] . r a canoewith its bow grounded on the beach and its sternafloat is something you cant take liberties , balancing himself in the stern, forgot thisfact for a moment, and when he remembered it hewas sitting in the water and Roy and Dick werehowling gleefully. Strange to say, this misad-venture restored Chubs good-nature, and, aftersitting for a minute up to his waist in the waterand laughing at his predicament, he jumped updripping, and hauled the canoe up the unloaded the rowboat, depositing tent andpoles and supplies on the sand, and then consid-ered the matter of a site for the camp. They had landed on Inner Beach where SchoolPoint curves toward the middle of the the beach there was a fringe of scrub-pines and a few low bushes, but beyond these allunderbrush had been cleared away so that therewas a full quarter of an acre of grass-carpetedground interspersed with well-grown maples andbirches. In the end they decided on a spot some ten HARRYS ISLAND 329. IN THE EVENING THERE WAS A GRAND BALL AT WHICH HARRY DANCED TO HER HEARTS CONTENT. yards back from the excellent little beach atVictory Cove. This, being well out on the point, Roy said,would be cool and at the same time accessiblefrom both sides. The sun would reach the tentfor a while in the afternoon, but not when it washot enough to matter. The trees were wellVol. XX XY -42. thinned out on both sides so that they had a clearview of the river to right and left. It was a good deal like camping out in onesown back yard, said Roy, pointing over theriver, for there, just across the inner chan-nel, was the float and the boat-house, and, furtherup on the hill, the familiar forms of the school 330 HARRYS ISLAND buildings. Over their heads the branches of thetrees almost met, and, as Chub pointed out, incase of a heavy rain-storm they would have asecond roof above them. There were a few pinesscattered near-by toward the rising ground in-land, and their resinous fragra
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