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In the early hours, the group headed for shore, with Johnstone deciding to go out in a rowing boat. However, the boat had no rowlocks to take the oars and Johnstone found himself being taken out to sea by the tide. Stranded at sea, Johnstone had to be rescued by the Coastguard and the incident dominated headlines for days. Despite the embarrassing headlines, Johnstone went on to turn in an outstanding performance for Scotland against England, helping them to a 2–0 win.
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When an old fisherman grew tired of raising his nets, ventolines came down from the sunset clouds and loaded the fish in the boat. They even wiped his sweat and sheltered him with their green wings when it was cold. Then they would take the oars and bring the boat to the docks. Other times, they would raise the sail, and if it was not windy, they blew inflating their cheeks and flying behind the boat making a breeze enough for the boat to sail.
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Siberia, Siberia. Northwestern University Press. pp. 12-13. . Later, the writer remembered growing up in Siberia as a difficult, but happy time: > "As soon as we kids learned how to walk, we would toddle to the river with > our fishing rods; still a tender child, we would run to the taiga, which > would begin right outside the village, to pick berries and mushrooms; since > young age, we would get into a boat and take the oars..."Valentin > Grigoriyevich Rasputin, biography When Rasputin finished the 4-year elementary school in Atalanka in 1948, his parents sent the precocious boy to a middle school and then to high school in the district center, Ust-Uda, some 50 km away from his home village.
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