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So de hunter and de maid, arm in arm dey go Across de Alleghany to de O-hi-o." "Bravo, Billy, that's not so bad," said some of the pensioners. "I tell you, Dick, I take de shine out of you. You nebber believe till I make you fall in my wake, and den you soon be where de little boat was long way astarn."
Ay, an' that's Stephen Lockley of the Lively Poll close astarn of 'im an' ain't they kickin' up a rumpus now!"
I can find as much work as all hands on us can do for 365 days, and jist 35 days more, if we had 'em. We han't got a minit to spare; you must shell the corn and winner the grain at night, and clean all up slick, or I guess we'll fall astarn as sure as the Lord made Moses. If he didn't keep us all at it, a drivin away full chisel, the whole blessed time, its a pity.
"Pat threw one foot out astarn, like a skullin' oar, and then bent forrards like a hoop, and fetched the rifle slowly up to the line, and shot to the right eye. Chee, chee, chee, went the squirrel. He see'd it was wrong. 'By the powers! sais Pat, 'this is a left-handed boot, and he brought the gun to the other shoulder, and then shot to his left eye.
"Simply, because one of your men of war schooners an't more than hull down astarn of me at this moment; she is working up in shore, and has not chased me as yet; indeed she may save herself the trouble, for ne'er a schooner in your blasted service has any chance with the tidy little Wave." I was by no means so sure of this.
But this generalizing, night and day, without any port ahead, and little comfort in looking astarn, will soon fit a man for Bedlam. I just: weathered Cape Crazy, I can tell you, lads; and that, too, in the white water! As for my v'y'ge being desperate, what was there to make it so, I should like to know?"
A horse that wont go ahead, is apt to run back, and the more you whip him the faster he goes astarn.
The Frenchy must have suspicioned where I was bound, for he has followed us up sharp, and as we came by South Head I seen him jest a bilin' along 'bout ten mile astarn, and now he'll poke into every hole of the bay till he finds us. Anyhow, there won't be no chance to trade long as he's round, for you folks don't dare say your soul's your own when there's a Frenchy on the coast."
"The dip of paddles, eh?" exclaimed I, in a whisper. "Where away, Roberts?" "Well, first here and then there, sir," answered the man, in an equally low and cautious tone of voice; "both ahead and astarn of us; sometimes on one side, and then on t'other.
"Oh, I see!" said the engineer. "You mean to go in here, and drive the fish to the net at the other end." "That's the way, Mr Marston," said Tom Tallington. "Wait a bit, and you'll see such a haul." "Perhaps of an empty net, Mr Marston," said Dick with a grin. "Perhaps there are none here." "You set astarn, mester," said Dave.
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