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Show tioned are the ones that 1213 at times will ( divide di'vidd' dividd ) the stream into different parts . In going down the river on his first trip in a ( sea- sea ) son he is not always able to select the right channel . On occasions when ( he lie ) had not selected the right channel , if he ( wasn't wasnt ) running too fast and ( would woulcl ) discover that the water was going away soon enough , he would back up and go around the ( chan chan- chan ) nel , but if he had gone down to where he was pretty solid , he sometimes hauled the boat across and would go on into the deep channel . After the first trip at such a place , it is some ¬ times easier to get out and get the boat past ( an ail ) impediment of that kind than it is to do it with a pole . ( R . 4799-4800 . ) That is a good deal the trouble on those trips , just what a first trip would be ; they ( don't dont don7t ) make so very many ( trips txips ) down the river during a year , and they are all , as a rule , some distance apart ; in fact , the only trips he believes he took fairly ( close clo-Q-8 cloQ8 ) together was for the Marlin Oil Company . He did not select the wrong ( Chan- Chan ) nel at any time in either of the Marlin Oil trips . He has made trips downstream and then back within a day or two , two or three days , where on the down trip he got in the wrong channel in the manner described . In coming back up he did not have any difficulty in locating and passing through a good and sufficient channel ; coming up the thing is ( self-evident selfevident ) ; it is practically a ( square-shoulder squareshoulder ) sand bar ; they ( don't dont don7t ) get into it at all ; they follow ( 03307-31-TOL 0330731TOL ) . . 2-31 |