Identifier: boytarorvoyagein00reid (find matches)
Title: The boy tar; or, A voyage in the dark
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883 Keene, Charles, 1823-1891
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Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
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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to despair. But hope in the human breast is hard to destroy, andit was so in mine. So long as there is life, thought I,let there be hope; and, inspired with the old proverb, Irenewed my exertions. After a while, I succeeded in stowing away two morepieces; and this gave me just room to creep inside the nownearly empty box, and go to work again with my knife. This time I had to cut the board across the middle, —as the cloth on both sides would not permit me to get ateither end. It made little difference, however ; and whenI had finished carving at the wood, I was able to pushout both sections, and make an aperture sufficient for mypurpose. I say sufficient for my purpose, — for it onlyneeded a hole large enough to admit my hand ; and, onceprotruding my fingers, I was satisfied, as before, with amost melancholy result. Another hale of linen ! Fatigued and faint, I could have fallen, had it beenpossible to fall lower ; but I was already upon my face,alike prostrate in body and soul! i
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CHAPTER XLVn. EXCELSIOR. It was some time before I recovered strength or spiritto arouse myself. But for hunger, I might have re-mained longer in the sort of torpid lethargy into which Ihad fallen ; but nature craved loudly for sustenance. Icould have eaten my crumbs where I lay, and wouldhave done so, but that thirst carried me back to my oldquarters. It made little difference where I slept, as Icould have fenced myself against the rats within eitherof the boxes ; but it was necessary to be near the water-butt, and this alone influenced me in the choice of mysleeping-place. It was not such an easy matter getting back to myformer position. Many pieces of cloth had to be liftedout of the way and drawn behind me. They had to beplaced carefully, — else on reaching the entrance to mychamber, I should not be able to clear a space largeenough to contain my body. I succeeded, however, in effecting my purpose ; and,having eaten my morsel, and quenched my feverishthirst, I fell back upon the

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