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out of tike house, as MOB as tern was over T and
madeher war to the wharf of loose stones at the foot of
the hill,
where her fcthers boats lay
some hauled up on the beach, and one, the dorr,
fist to a great post set in the end of the wharf. Few
girls of Bhoda's age die was just past her twelfth
birth-day, did I say? would like to venture themselves
alone in any sort of a boat; hot she had heen brought
up by the sea, and could not remember the time when
it seemed strange to her to sail or row, or swim or
wade, upon or through
the water.
Of late die had
learned to handle the oars for herself, both Strongly
and wefl; seeing this, Ben had made a pair of light
paddles expressly for her use, and the dory was always
left BO that she eonld get it when she wanted much as
some other little girls liave a pony-carriage or a velocipede,
or perhaps a rocking-horse under their own eon-
inter:
So when IShoda, in leaving the house, said to her
"Fin going out in
the dory a little vmle," Susy
only replied:
"Goalong,btdon T tstmyout after dark," and then
ahnost forget that there was such a child as Ehoda in
theworld.
"If I shorn* aftayvp ntiwmM,! wonder if they
would mias me down here?" thought the little girl,
topping at the top of the hill to look back at the