"Oh, yes you would." XII SHORE LEAVE Tyler Kamps was a tired boy.

He enjoyed the first few hours of paddling, but in the long, warm afternoon came indolence, and they were both willing to glide with the current and watch the ever-changing vista of the shore.

Late afternoon, and they worked closer to the shore.

Swiftly Ben turned the canoe into shore.

And when he reached the landing the canoe was already near the opposite shore, heading swiftly downstream.

He paddled as if without effort, but the streaming shore line showed that the boat moved at an astonishing rate.

And when the old man had drawn his pistol and fired, and the bullet had splashed in the water some twenty yards toward shore, her mind had refused to accept the evidence of her senses.

"There's no place to land above itI went all over the shore this morning.

Already all opportunity for the girl to swim to shore was irremediably past.

"Push into shore," the girl urged.

"Turn into the shore," she told him, half-whispering.

"You still have time to steer into shore.

Somewhat afraid, but still trusting in the imperial mind of his master, the wolf raised his head to watch the racing shore line.

"Glide into shore, and we'll try to catch an overhanging limb.

" They were speechless a long time, Beatrice watching the swift leap of the shore line, Ben guiding, with steady hand, the canoe.

What is his power compared with the force of the wind or the energy of one small wave sweeping along the shore? "The power which man can build up within himself, for himself, is nothing.

Adds that his own theory is that the Torpid was sunk by somebody throwing rocks at it from the shore.

The foreground of the view is the shore of Villa Nova, adjoining the quay.

though all were o'er, For us repeopled were the solitary shore.

From the shore the dark green of the forest confronted us with no sound or sign of life.

We were aground in what should have been clear water, with the forest-clad shore of Muloa lying close off to port.

It would be folly to attempt to conceal his presence and I despaired of getting him back to shore while his present mood held, although I remembered that the small boat, which had been lowered after we went aground, was still moored to the rail amidships.

If I could divert his fuddled thoughts and get him back to shore while the wine lulled him to forgetfulness.

When I ventured to urge him back to shore he made no protest, but followed me into the boat.

Conrad Aiken (A); 24Mar59; R234283. Then came I to the shoreless shore of silence.

Sure enough, when we got there we seen the mares spread out and the chestnut and the grey mare hanging around.

"Of all the leather-skinned, mule-muscled, wrong-headed gents I ever seen he's the outlastingest." "You sure got your vocabulary all warmed up," observed Little Joe, so-called because of two hundred pounds of iron-hard sinew and muscle.

" "He'll sure fit in fine here," drawled Little Joe.

she's got,' I says, 'but the hoss is sure a fast thinking, fast moving devil.' "'Well,' says he, 'it sort of sounds good to me.

That damn singing sure was riding my nerves.

Well, I got into a little game of stud, and things were running pretty easy for me when a big gent across the table that had been losing hard and drinking hard ups and says he allows I sure have the cards talking.

" "Sure," nodded Jordan, as he scribbled the dictated words.

To be sure, she talked of the business before them, but she talked of it only in scattered phrases.

To be sure, Perris was by no means a gentle rider.

"I'm sure sorry," said Perris.

"I sure want to be reasonable, Miss Jordan," he said.

He caught up his gun to make sure, but when his left hand slipped under the barrel to the balance and the butt of the gun pulled into the hollow of his shoulder, he became of rocklike steadiness.

Then he found that he was saying stupidly: "I'm sure sorry, Miss Jordan.

He's forgotten that squabble over" "Sure I have," said Lew Hervey.

To be sure, he was a keener judge of the sights and scents of the mountain desert than any of the half-bred mares but though he lived to fifty years he would never approach the stored wisdom, the uncanny acuteness of eye, ear, and nostril of the wild grey.

To be sure there were other ways hardly less convenient to the waterhole, but why should he be turned from the easiest way day after day because of this unbodied warning?

The calm voice was proceeding: "Old sport, you and me are going to stage a sure enough scrap right here and now.

To make sure of his prey he whirled himself to the left, but even so his striking feet did not reach the Great Enemy.

"Don't be too sure," said the other.

One could never be sure.

And if one of them did take advantage of you and run away while you slept, I'm sure it would come home again.

"You sure mean business!"

Yielding to curiosity, he headed straight up wind to make sure.

Alcatraz ain't any pet, but he's sure lived according to his rights.

If you stay it's because you like me, boy; and when you want to leave the corral gate will be sure open.