The Yankee Champion — page 33: what you’re looking at

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€ i i 26 THE YANKEE CHAMPION. wl have them in readiness to attend us as soon as it is dark.”’ | Baker and Cummings promised to have all in readiness as requested, and with light hearts they went about their duty, while their young com- mander, after having buttoned his coat snugly about him to keep out the cold blast, started off toward the river. Nixon easily procured a boat, bak he declined the ee Tle. of any one to help him row across, pre- © ferring to go by himself.- As soon as he reached the opposite shore he hauled the boat up out of the way of the tide, and then took his way farther up the river toward a deep, wide basin, where there were a number of brick-yards. In this basin lay four large scows, which were used for bringing clay and wood down the river, and also for carrying bricks farther down toward the island when vessels could not handily get up. The man who owned the yards was a short, thick-set, rough-looking old fellow, and he looked at the new-comer with anything but an inviting cast of countenance. ‘‘Do you own these scows, sir?’’ asked Walter, as he approached the owner of the yards. “Yes, s’pose I do,”’ grunted the old fellow. ‘“Would you be willing to lend one of them to- night?’’ continued Nixon, nothing daunted. ‘‘And never get it agin, I s’pose.’’ “It shall be returned faithfully in the morning, sir.”’ “Oh, yes, of course. That’s what folks allers save as intends to runaway. I’d like to know what in thunder you want to go scouting in one 0’ them great heavy things for?’’ “Pll tell you what I’ll do, my good man.”’ comicbooks.co nm