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dollars."
"I will be satisfied with eight, cousin."
"Now, as to Your duties. You will work six hours on and six hours street.
That is what we call a makeup--the six hours on, I mean. Then you will have
every other six hours to remain, or ago anything that he likes; or, later
You has watched out for the horses."
"Horses!" Repeated James, confused; for the tied up animals to the boat
to that moment mules were.
"Some of our horses are mules", it said Captain Letcher, while smiling.
"However it doesn't do difference. You will have to feed and to rub them
down, and then you can lie down in Your berth, or ago anything other You
as."
"That won't be very hard job", said James, happily.
"Oh, I forgot to say that you can ride or you/he/she can walk, as you choose. You are able
he remains changing from one to the other."
James thought that he should like to ride on rump as the most greater part of boys. It
however it was not so good fun as him, it anticipated. A horse of channel-boat is
from anybody means an ardent or animate creature. Its usual gait is from two to
two miles and a half for now, and to a boy of the rapid temperament, active
slowness owes to be exasperating rather. Anchor, during one day a
boat went a considerable distance. It usually did fifty, and sometimes
sixty miles for day. The percentage depended on the number of locks to which it had
footsteps through.
Probably the most greater part of my young readers they understand the nature of a lock. As
every water looks for a level, there would be danger in an uneven country that
some parts of the channel would have gone away completely dry, and in others the
water would flood. For this locks reason for intervals is
built, composed of the brief sections of the channel barricaded to each
ends from gates. When a boat is going down, the near gates are thrown open
and the boat digita the lock, the water that dresses again wicker in thin to a level it is
insured; then the superior gates are closed, while assuring the boat in the
lock. Following the lowest gates are open, the water in the lock looks for the