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"Be of good heart friends are at hand, and not a single Mingo shall cross without suffering for his boldness. Had you not better leave the rifle on the rock, and swim to us before the rascals can get afloat?" "A true woodsman never quits his piece while he has any powder in his horn or a bullet in his pouch.
In the brilliant setting of some world-famous German spa, though she as she believed would have been perfectly at her ease, what about her companions? For in such scenes of high fashion, her own good clothes are not sufficient lifebelt to keep a pretty woman quite complacently afloat.
We have been out on this extended patrol area seven days, but not a wisp of smoke greets our eyes. Nothing but sea, sea, sea. Oh, how monotonous it is! I cannot make out where the shipping has got to. Tomorrow I am going to close the North Cape again. I think everything must be going inside me. I am too far out here. The North Cape bears due east. Nothing afloat in sight.
But the hairy scoundrels who made up the crew of the Royal James had no idea of lying there with their ship on its side, while two other ships for the Sea Nymph was now afloat should sail around them, rake their decks, and shatter them to pieces. So the crew consulted together, despite their captain's roars and oaths, and many of them counselled surrender.
He had slightly less beard than the average youth of his years; and, despite the fact that he had been exposed almost constantly to salty gales since his fourteenth birthday, he did not look his age. And of all the ridiculous sights ashore or afloat the most ridiculous is a sea captain with the body of a Hercules and the immature features of an eighteen-year-old boy.
The speed of the fastest steamer afloat is poor compared to his. And he is a great gad-about, and roams far and wide in the oceans, and visits the shores of all of them, ultimately, in the course of his restless excursions. I have a tale to tell now, which has not as yet been in print.
See Fourth Class Reader for full particulars in verse." The three couples were soon afloat Quincy and Alice, Captain Hornaby and Florence, Harry and Maude. "Let's have a race," cried Maude. "To that big white rock down there," and she pointed to the farther end of the pond.
When I got the telegram, telling me the brig was still afloat, I thought it might be a good plan to go about among the fishermen, making inquiries." "And you happened to strike the right one?" asked Jerry. "I that is well, I had inquired among several before I met Captain Deckton of the smack Sea Girl. He saw the derelict.
My proud days those were my office in the big building by the Battery. You remember? Aye, a grand place the name in fine letters on the door, and on the window the picture of my big wreckin'-tug, the best-geared afloat and cost the most a sailor's fortune just in her yes and I'd named it for Her. And 'twas to that same office I used often to come straight from my rough seawork.
By now the wires were humming, and through St. Marys the news ran like quicksilver. In years past there had been individual discoveries by wandering bushmen, but none of them of value. Tales were afloat that old Shingwauk down at the settlement knew of a gold bearing vein, and that the knowledge would die with him.
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