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2 and bailing now drifted back now gaining a few rods, now fast on a candbar on this side now aground on the other, till
the victory was again wrenched from us and, drawing our boat upon a large sandbank we disembarked, laid our packs at our feet,
and with uncovered heads, thus addressed the culprit boat, each in turn O Boat, here illegible and perverse, why perish in
this obstimate and un- profitable determination of opposition to the reasonable demands of thy lords and masters. Don't plead?
weakness? fearest thou the gran- elly shoals and angry waves of the whirlpool, or the jutting rock bank? These dangers have
all been illegible a thousand times by the frailest canoe that smoothly and un- murmmingly have illegible their 3 towing
masters with them? little ones in softy over these waters. As does fond attachment for thy parent stream bring forth this
unbecoming opposition Art thou then unwilling to follow duty? to all places. Shall flimsy inclination overcome principle,
Shame be thy portions thou art small and light as a baby cradle but ob illegible and unsteerable as Noahs ark, Shame but think
thee? of the bark canoe, the tinkling gondola and whole sloop, with the vast livia illegible of war, all humble and illegible
- edient to navigate all waters in glassy calmness or when t illegible to the sky illegible in the foam of the storm, depart
from my service to that of another upon thy parent whom thou seemest to love and may'st thou serve her better than