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  1.  Love of Life and Other Stories / London, Jack, 1876-1916
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  2.  Morning On The Wissahiccon / Poe, Edgar Allen
    the Wissahiccon, at one of its best reaches, and, in a skiff, or by clambering along its banks, he can go ... by the route described, and spent the better part of a sultry day in floating in a skiff upon its bosom  details...
  3.  Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    . "My name's Miller, Skiff Miller. I just thought I'd s'prise her." "You are on the right track then ... . Skiff Miller's abstraction disappeared. The pretty woman before him passed out of his field of vision  details...
  4.  A Story of the Great River / Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930
    ready the better. I shall go in the skiff, and take Halma and Jan with me." Nothing so allays anxiety ... . You take my horse and go to Madison in the interests of the contract, while Bim and I will take your skiff  details...
  5.  Tales of the Fish Patrol / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    . I could see him casting longing glances at the small skiff towing astern, so in the next calm I hauled the skiff alongside. As I did so his eyes brightened with hope; but before he could guess my intention ...  details...
  6.  Bobby of the Labrador / Wallace, Dillon, 1863-1939
    , and over the water to Abel came the words: "_Umiak! Umiak!_" (A boat! A boat!) Abel arose deliberately in his skiff ... in the skiff. Stretched in the boat lay the body of a man. In the man's side was a great gaping wound  details...
  7.  Jack Haydon's Quest / Finnemore, John
    's skiff was missing one night, and was found the next morning a couple of miles down the coast, floating ... that it had been carelessly fastened, and the rope had slipped from the mooring ring and allowed the skiff to drift away  details...
  8.  Wyandotte / Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
    , any more than those left at the Hutted Knoll. They had built three or four skiffs, one small batteau, and a couple ... Mike in a skiff, by himself, flattering the poor fellow with the credit he would achieve, by rowing a boat  details...
  9.  John Barleycorn / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    , my vision with tropic isles and far sea-rims, I was sailing a small centreboard skiff around San Francisco ... was entangled with alcohol. So, one day, as I hoisted sail on my skiff, I met Scotty. He was a husky youngster  details...
  10.  The Cruise of the Dazzler / London, Jack, 1876-1916
    A skiff grazed the side of the _Dazzler_ softly and interrupted Joe's reveries. He wondered ... . The _Dazzler's_ skiff was brought alongside, as was also the small boat in which the two strangers had come  details...

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