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against a stone to shove the boat out from
shore. Everything was to go at full speed, you
see, but the oar slipped and Karsten went head
over heels into the water. It was only by a
hair’s breadth that we escaped having that flat,
rickety boat turn upside down with us all. I
can tell you I was thoroughly frightened then.
I have always heard that there is no bottom to
these mountain lakes, but that the water goes
straight through the earth! Although we were
scarcely more than a fathom’s length from
shore, the water was deep black, and you
couldn’t see any bottom.
“ Oh! Karsten! Karsten! ”
His head bobbed up between the water-lilies
and broad green leaves, and Olsen hauled him
up into the boat.
“Ah-chew! Pshaw! Ah-chew! that horrid
oar! ” sneezed and scolded Karsten, as soon as
he got his breath. “ Horrid old boat! Horrid
old water! Ah-chew! ”
“ Now we must row fast,” said Trond—so
that this body doesn’t get sick, he is so wet.”
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