The Polly Page Yacht Club (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1910 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII Folly's "current Events" "put it down in the log book, Kate, under the head of current events," Polly said that night, as she sat beside Crullers' couch, and they all discussed the rescue. "And don't say heroism again. It wasn't anything of the kind. It was just plain common sense." "That's so," agreed the Captain, smiling shrewdly. "It's an awful embarrassing thing, this being a hero, Miss Polly. I've had to go through it several times, more or less, whenever I happened to haul some landlubber out of deep water, and I can sympathize with you." "Just the same, Captain, you'll never know how glad I was to see that life-boat round the Point. The tide was setting me at my wits' end, and I never would have got the Tidy Jane back by myself." "She's powerful skittish once she gets the smell of the open sea," the Captain remarked. "Yes, and they helped me get the salt water out of Crullers too," added Polly. "I'll bet a cooky she won't like salt for a year, after that one good taste of it." Crullers laughed feebly. But the other girls could not make light of the affair. It had seemed altogether too serious and tragic, when they had watched those two frail, white-winged little boats drifting straight in the face of danger, and then Crullers' frantic leap into the sea, and the coming of the life-boat around the Point. It all savored too much of real tragedy, Kate and Ruth said, and it ought to teach them a good lesson. The life savers had picked up Crullers' boat midway down the channel, and had towed the Tidy Jane in under bare poles. Polly and Crullers had been taken up to the Station, Crullers, dripping and half unconscious, carried in the arms of the Captain, while Polly walked along the narrow boardwalk behind them, and the rest of crew followed, f...