Wyn's Camping Days Or, the Outing of the Go-Ahead Club (Paperback)

Excerpt: ... loosed the halliards. The canvas fluttered down on the deck with a rustle and crash. The catboat sprang to even keel, but shot on under the momentum it had gained in swooping down upon the swamped girls. "Wyn hold hard I've got you " But it was the other girl Polly grasped. Wyn had turned, thrust the half-drowned Bessie before her, and Polly, leaning over the gunwale of the tossing boat, seized her by the shoulders. In a moment she heaved up, struggled, dragged the other girl forward, and together rescuer and rescued tumbled flat into the cockpit of the Coquette. Polly shouted again: "Wyn Wyn I'll come back for you " "Give me a hand " cried Wyn, hanging to the rudder. "Polly you old darling If you hadn't got here when you did " Polly left Bess to her own resources and rushed to the stern. She helped Wyn clamber into the 159 boat. Then she hoisted the sail again, and got way upon the boat. She raised the canvas only a little, for she had risked all the weight she dared upon the mast before. "Are you all right, Bess?" cried Wyn. "I-I'm alive. But, oh I'm so-so sick," gasped Miss Lavine. "Brace up, Bess We're all right now. Polly has saved us." "Polly?" cried Bess, sitting up, the better to see the boatman's daughter as the latter sat again at the helm. "Oh, Polly " "You'd better both lie down till we get to the camp. I'll take you right there," said the other girl, briefly. "We'd have been-been drowned, Wyn " gasped Bess. "I guess we would. We are still a long way from shore." "And Polly saved us? All alone? How wonderful " But Polly's face was stern. She scarcely spoke to the two Denton girls as the Coquette swept across the lake. Wyn told her just how it all happened and the condition of the...