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The House Boat Boys by St. George Rathborne
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junction of the two rivers.

The air was growing colder, and Thad, who professed to be
something of a weather sharp, declared that they were in for a
touch of winter very speedily, which made them both long to get
out of the clutches of the Ohio before ice formed and impeded
their progress.

Maurice scouted any chance of this happening; it might have been
more serious had they been cruising in a small boat which must
find a safe harbor every night in some creek; because it might
grow cold enough to freeze such a craft in some night, or at least
shut those harbors of refuge to entrance; but with such a big and
stanch craft they could tie up to the shore and pay little
attention to the in-rolling waves cast by the suction of passing
steam-boats.

This night they found a chance to secure the shanty-boat to some
rocks; and as the neighborhood seemed lonely, they chose to go
ashore and build a fire on the sandy stretch that ran under the
shelving bank.

Just for a change they cooked supper ashore, too, for it would be
seldom that this sort of an opportunity might come to them, and
they felt that they ought to take advantage of it while it lasted.

Already had the wind shifted to the northwest, and it was cold
enough to make them seek the leeward side of the fire while eating
supper.

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