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He seized the other side of the wheel and helped to spin it around
until it was hard down, and then we held it so. The boat resisted,
and refused to answer for a while, and next she came surging to star-
board, mounted the reef, and sent a long, angry ridge of water foaming
away from her bows.
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you. When she fights strong and the tiller slips a little, in a jerky,
greasy sort of way, let up on her a trifle; it is the way she tells you
at night that the water is too shoal; but keep edging her up, little
by little, toward the point. You are well up on the bar, now; there
is a bar under every point, because the water that comes down around
it forms an eddy and allows the sediment to sink. Do you see those