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The High School Boys’ Canoe Club

CHAPTER V
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At the same time, there are plenty of wealthy folks who would pay me well for a birch-bark canoe.
Now, I know that you boys, owning a canoe that will soon be in the water, won't be anxious to give up your whole summer to doing jobs for me.

But couldn't you bring in a lot more bark if you had a team of horses and a good-sized wagon ?" "Of course we could," Dick nodded.

"But we haven't any horses or a wagon." "I was thinking," Driggs went on slowly.

"I can spare my gray team and the big green wagon.

Any of you boys know how to drive ?" "All of us do," Dick answered, "though I guess Tom could handle a team better than any of the rest of us." "Then suppose you take my team out at six o'clock to-morrow morning ?" Driggs suggested.


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