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A little red dory, labelled Hattie S., lay astern of the schooner. Dan hauled in the painter, and dropped lightly on to the bottom boards, while Harvey tumbled clumsily after.

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Dan fitted the thole pins, took the forward thwart, and watched Harvey’s work. The boy had rowed, in a ladylike fashion, on the Adirondack ponds; but there is a difference between squeaking pins and well balanced rowlocks light sculls and stubby, eight foot sea oars. They stuck in the gentle swell, and Harvey grunted.

“Short! Row short!” said Dan. “Ef you cramp your oar in any kind o’ sea you’re liable to turn her over. Ain’t she a daisy? Mine, too.”

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“Shouldn’t wonder. It would be ‘most the only thing I haven’t stuck him for yet.”

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