Outing . sea. As sure as shooting fish in a bucket,well be slammed into the cypress spikes,if we try to keep close in, said Hen. draw the dugouts nose up into thewaves, when I heard Hen shout. I saw a camp! I shot a hasty glance at the woodshore. A great eddy had hurled us onand I could see nothing. But Hen keptyelling that he saw a camp behind thefringe of storm-torn maples. If you think so lets head her in, ~*. THE LIGHTER SERVICE ON THE COAST OF BARATARIA Lets make a tree roost of it for thenight. And lose our canoe and outfit? Iretorted. No, well have to beat it onand look for a chance to
Outing . sea. As sure as shooting fish in a bucket,well be slammed into the cypress spikes,if we try to keep close in, said Hen. draw the dugouts nose up into thewaves, when I heard Hen shout. I saw a camp! I shot a hasty glance at the woodshore. A great eddy had hurled us onand I could see nothing. But Hen keptyelling that he saw a camp behind thefringe of storm-torn maples. If you think so lets head her in, ~*. THE LIGHTER SERVICE ON THE COAST OF BARATARIA Lets make a tree roost of it for thenight. And lose our canoe and outfit? Iretorted. No, well have to beat it onand look for a chance to run in somecove or bayou. Darkness was lowering when we werecrawling slowly, with minute inspectionof the mass of drift grinding among thetrees, along a mile-wide cove. It of-fered no harbor—was, in fact, worsethan the sheer lake. But at the far sidethe grim wall of forest was a bit brokenand we saw the shine of the latanierpalms in a sort of glade. When wereached it all we saw was water stretch-ing in, and between us and its compara-tive calm a hundred yards of solid wreck-age with the yellow waves leaping allalong its outer edge. It was hopeless. We had worked on past this mass andI was digging off on the weather side to I yelled. But God help us if thereaint! All that stuff above is workingdown on us, and the spikes are thicker inthere than hair on a dog. We watched our chance to bring thepirogue abo
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