Identifier: stnicholasserial292dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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eling of greatdignity and importanceborn of long and con-stant government ser-vice and attention to the wants of this grandparade of ships. Ap-parently she knowsevery one by sight, andcan call their names assoon as they come intoview in the distance.Certainly there is atremble of excitementall through her fifty feetof length as the first fewturns of her propellersend her circling awayfrom the dock again.Giving herself a goodshake and toss of her bow while crossing the lumpy wake of a pon-derous car-ferry boat, she runs straight for themiddle of the river, knowing well that she willsoon be laying her clean white sides close to the black and dirty sides of one of her big-ship friends. That fellow behind the Tuscarora is the City of Bangor, sings out the captain againfrom the wheel-house to the carrier, who is nowarranging his lines in careful coils in the bowof his boat, so that they will run free when thecritical moment comes. The carrier answers : The City of Bangor and Tuscarora locked
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A BUNDLE FOR A WHITE FLYER. 586 A LITTLE WHITE STEAMER, A MAN IN GRAY, (May, through the Soo together yesterday morning,according to this mornings paper, and they aresticking right together all the way down. Do you think you can get them both, andthe tow, before these fellows coming up gethere? Yes, I believe so, the carrier replies. Bet-ter head down a little, and keep close to me, soas to pick me up quick after I get through withthe Tuscarora. A spoke or two of her steering-wheel to portheads the mail-boat downstream and just acomfortable distance to one side, and parallelwith the path of the oncoming ship, now closeby and foaming grandly toward her. In re-sponse to three strokes on the engine-room gong,the engine of the mail-boat is turning over veryslowly now ; but the hand of the engineer is onthe throttle, ready for the jingling signal thatwill come within half a minute to let her outfor a race with the rushing steamer for the shorttime that the carrier is alongside. Letting got

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