Paddling under Palmettos — page 82: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 75 peculiar adventure. The Sachem had swung around, narrowly escaping a collision with his boat, which dragged anchor more slowly than the rest. Dick, finding he could not make the anchor hold, had leaped overboard up to his waist, in order to do something more radical. As luck would have it, his foot struck a sub- merged stake. Quick as thought he had whipped his cable around it and then gone ashore as before stated. Archie crept back to his boat, and with Ned’s help anchored the Sea Waif out so that she could not pound against the rocks. Then he crept under the blankets, and held the tent-cover down for at least five mortal hours, the longest he ever spent. It was a night to be remembered. GEomicboo cS) (E(0)