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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JN WHICH HARRY SAYS WHAT IS NOT QUITE THE TRUTH, AND AFTERWARDS HARDENS HIMSELF IN HIS ERROR. The two principal amusements at Brambleby were those in fashion at places of much higher reputation, namely cricket, and boating. There was a good cricket-ground on the heath, about a mile from Dr. Templeman's house, and the river that ran past Brambleby on its way to the German ocean was a very fairly good river for boating, indeed, practically much better than some larger streams, because it was never crowded either with pleasure craft or barges. The current was even and slow, the water generally deep, and the bridges offered no hindrance to navigation. Dr. Templeman's pupils possessed three boats, as good in their way as need be, for they had been built fcy a first-rate craftsman at Lambeth, and these boats were -carefully kept in a shed by the river-side just as boat- proprietors keep their pleasure-craft by the Thames. Now, it happened the very day after Harry's arrival, for it was at the close of the midsummer holidays, that between twelve o'clock and dinner-time, the boys went out for a walk and he with them. They very often employed this hour in taking a brisk ramble by the river-side, and did so on the present occasion. When they came to tho boat-house, Greenfield minor did the honours of thatinteresting place to our hero, and it is difficult to convey any adequate idea of the impression made upon Harry's inexperienced mind by those beautiful and highly-finished craft. Xever in his life had he seen boats like those boats. There was a shallow pond at Bilsbury, and on the pond a heavy old tub that would have progressed sideways like a crab, almost as fast as it could follow its own nose, or prow, if the reader wants a more poetical expression, but there was a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217218641 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217218644 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 232 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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