The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-15

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..'.I don't think have turned far
enough said he.
g If you were to row. on, straight
course as She heads now said. you
4 would land somewhere near the head
waters of the lake..
Jack rowed doggedly in the course
of his choosing for half an hour or more
without developing anything to give US a
clue to our whereabouts. Night added to
the obscurity. We might have been on a
shoreless waste of water for all that we
were able to The mist made the
night impenetrable I could but dimly
distinguish Jacks form, although he sat
not more than five feet from me; soon
could not see him at all. At last he lifted
his oars and, as I inferred, looked over
the bow.
les wonder he said. that they
don't show light at the camp
= i still think your course is wrong,
said l. AT any rate no torchlight at the
camp could possibly penetrate this mist.
Had we better not decide to lie here until
morning.
1--WE can't do that Jack answered.
with a kind of terceness in his tone. My
wife would be too anxious ~ We must
make the camp.
Il heard the oars rattle in the row.
locks and the splash of the blades in the
water The boat moved forward Jack
was rowing strongly-almost ansrily. 1t
plain that he losing his temper.
1t is hard enough for q man to walk in n
straight line with his eyes blndfolded: it
is much harder to row a straight course
over sHiootH water !'t me ga ~ ~ iteN me-,
perienced man do it, He fails to real
ize that his right arm is much stronger
than his feft; even though he may 90 .his'
he cannot measure out equal strength TO
his arms. L was reasonably certain that
Jack was rowing in a wide CIRCLE. When
his breath came in gasps and his strokes
We're slow and labored, 1 said:
-" Let me have go at it, Jack.
"'Au right, said he. wei l change.
Perhaps you'll have better luck than l.
BE careful said /. We're over
He let the oars swing to the side,
and l made ready to steady the boat. 1
heard him rise. The boat rocked a little.
He is a heavy man. and somewhat I'M
steady on his feet; Ii was so dark u that
l cou4u l"t see Liih' pihS t't'h az ~
iNho" tfat ne was on ms iees' WaitiiiS
LOT me. rose III l':e stern my ssI anu
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".To,iL ON = he cried
II had cr,,, tro far to tiIe ri~!,t. The
boa+ t.rt,.r.n3 aIa,.r,,il,rly we naurbf each
other about tho middle ana C,.o,,c, cd
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Ia an cN on keel
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was SunlfleiSt". JACK reieaSed me, ano
coil"PSru lA'" Sil'itls posture IN the DOT
ON Itl5 ms, me- s["speu me SIIn-
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the boat l felt the water slowly curl
Sae SINKING. safd JacN' Iufe'iy.
e7' SdSfVu'
he BOAT sank very SLOWLY. EentlV
swaNtnE from side to side. | could see
nothing, and al could near was the
Eurgle and Missing OF the water as it
CURED over the SuhWaleS ana eddled
about the boat. ieit the water rise over
my lees-creep TO my waist-rtse to my
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