Identifier: ruddergrange00stoc (find matches)
Title: Rudder Grange
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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ve been of no use to mein my position. I was desperate. I clasped the post that they putin the bow of canal-boats ; I stuck my toes and myfinger-nails in the cracks between the boards,—howglad I was that the boat was an old one and hadcracks !—and so, painfully and slowly, slipping partway down once or twice, and besliming myself fromchin to foot, I climbed up that post and scrambledupon deck. In an instant I reached the top of thestairs, and in another instant I rushed below. There sat my wife and our boarder, one on eachside of the dining-room table, complacently playingcheckers! My sudden entrance startled them. My appearancestartled them still more. Euphemia sprang to her feet and tottered towardme. Mercy! she exclaimed. Has anything hap-pened? Happened ! I gasped. Look here, cried the boarder, clutching me bythe arm, what a condition youre in ! Did you fallin? Fall in! said I. Euphemia and the boarder looked at each other. Ilooked at them. Then I opened my mouth in earnest 24
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RUDDER GRANGE I suppose you dont know/ I yelled, that youhave drifted away ! By George ! cried the boarder, and in two boundshe was on deck. Dirty as I was, Eupheruia fell into my arms. I toldher all. She had not known a bit of it! The boat had so gently drifted off, and had sogently grounded among the reeds, that the voyagehad never so much as disturbed their games ofcheckers. He plays such a splendid game, Euphemia sobbed,and just as you came I thought I was going to benthim. I had two kings and two pieces on the next tolast row, and you are nearly drowned ! Youll getyour death of cold—and—and he had only one king. She led me away, and I undressed and washed myselfand put on my Sunday clothes. When I reappeared I went out on deck with Eu-phemia. The boarder was there, standing by thepetunia-bed. His arms were folded and he wasthinking profoundly. As we approached he turnedtoward us. You were right about that anchor, he said, Ishould not have hauled it in. But it was such a littl

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