... XVCHAPTER XVICHAPTER XVII An American Idyll The Project Gutenberg EBook of An American Idyll, by Cornelia Stratton Parker This eBook is for the use ofanyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions ... plus a stout rope and a tree, in an afternoon's time we dug andpulled and hauled and yanked Chocolada up and out onto dry land, more nearly dead than ever by that time.The ancient senile ... pay, and America stopped building a merchant marine because it was cheaper to hireEngland to transport American goods, so the American Trust, as soon as it had power, abolished the American trade-union...