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"My!" Tess gasped, sitting in the stern of the drifting boat, "how fast the shores go past, Dot! We're going up the river awfully quick."
"And so j-j-jerky!" exclaimed her sister, clinging to the Alice-doll.
"You aren't really afraid, are you, Dot?"
"No-o. Only for Alice. She's always been weakly, you know, since that awful time she got bu