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The Pappin Ferrys-Personal Narrative
It was faster and deeper than I imagined. The pappin ferry that we took couldn't hold the number of people we had in our wagon train. It almost tipped over, but we still lost some stuff. Mary Ellen, Jasper, Mary, and I jumped into the fast moving current and saved as much as we could. In the end we couldn't save the coffee. That left us with bad water.
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