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tion under the engine-room floor. If we 

 worked fast, we might save a part of the 

 ship, and wasn't it fortunate that we were 

 still tied up to the dock? 



Contrary to expectations, we managed to 

 put out the blaze, after which we found that 

 all our motor needed was a cozy little fire in 

 its living room to take the chill out of the air, 

 for when we turned it over it went to work 

 in the most cheerful spirit. 



That afternoon we hunted farther up the 

 sound, but what quail we raised were in im- 

 possible thickets and the snipe on the marshes 

 had gone visiting over the week end. As we 

 pulled out at daybreak on the following 

 morning, we ran aground on a falling tide and 

 stuck there. 



Some trips seem to have a jinx on them. 

 John W. Jonah appears to keep step right up 

 to the finish. After laboring long and blas- 

 phemously in a vain effort to get afloat, the 

 unwelcome suspicion entered our minds that 

 this was such a one. 



I had built this boat especially for hunting 

 in these shallow waters, and while she is not 

 much to look at, she is warm and comfortable, 

 and it is Ri's boast that she is the only fifty- 

 is 



