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Frank Richard Stockton. Rudder Grange
Rudder Grange
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF DWELLING HOUSE
CHAPTER II. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF BOARDER
CHAPTER III. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF GIRL
CHAPTER IV. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF BURGLAR
CHAPTER V. POMONA PRODUCES A PARTIAL REVOLUTION IN RUDDER GRANGE
CHAPTER VI. THE NEW RUDDER GRANGE
CHAPTER VII. TREATING OF AN UNSUCCESSFUL BROKER AND A DOG
CHAPTER VIII. POMONA ONCE MORE
CHAPTER IX. WE CAMP OUT
CHAPTER X. WET BLANKETS
CHAPTER XI. THE BOARDER'S VISIT
CHAPTER XII. LORD EDWARD AND THE TREE-MAN
CHAPTER XIII. POMONA'S NOVEL
CHAPTER XIV. POMONA TAKES A BRIDAL TRIP
CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH TWO NEW FRIENDS DISPORT THEMSELVES
CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH AN OLD FRIEND APPEARS AND THE BRIDAL TRIP TAKES A
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH WE TAKE A VACATION AND LOOK FOR DAVID DUTTON
CHAPTER XVIII. OUR TAVERN
CHAPTER XIX. THE BABY AT RUDDER GRANGE
CHAPTER XX. THE OTHER BABY AT RUDDER GRANGE
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Frank Richard Stockton
Published by Good Press, 2019
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This I did, but it was not easy to do. Twice I sank above my knees in mud and water, and had it not been for reeds, masses of which I frequently clutched when I thought I was going over, I believe I should have fallen down and come to my death in that horrible marsh. When I reached the boat, I stood up to my hips in water and saw no way of climbing up. The gang-plank had undoubtedly floated away, and if it had not, it would have been of no use to me in my position.
But I was desperate. I clasped the post that they put in the bow of canal-boats; I stuck my toes and my finger-nails in the cracks between the boards—how glad I was that the boat was an old one and had cracks!—and so, painfully and slowly, slipping part way down once or twice, and besliming myself from chin to foot, I climbed up that post and scrambled upon deck. In an instant, I reached the top of the stairs, and in another instant I rushed below.
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