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Captain Billings was watching Jorrocks even more intently than I; and, without a second's delay, the moment the latter gave the signal that the critical point for action had arrived, he roared out in a voice of thunder, "Hard up with the helm, hard up, my men, for your lives!"
I'd hev nothin' to wish for then but a mouth as big as the Saco's." "And I wish this custard pie was the size o' Bonnie Eagle Pond," said Ike Billings. "I'd like to fall into the middle of it and eat my way out!" "Look at that bunch o' Chiny asters tied on t' the bail o' that biscuit-pail!" said Ivory Dunn.
My first impulse was to drop it in the car, but on second thought I decided to keep it, for I knew that when you saw it and heard the story you would understand perfectly why I was detained last night." "Yes?" said Mrs. Billings questioningly. "But, my dear, all that does not account for these." As she said that she drew from her workbasket the three auburn-red curls. "Oh, those!" said Mr.
I had to scrape it off and refinish it. It really ought to have another day to dry." Jerry repeated, puzzled, to himself: "Left plane what in thunder's that?" Billings went on: "You won't forget to bring the timer. Elizabeth will get it at the usual place if you can leave it by noon." "It'll be there, Billings."
Policeman Billings strolling over his beat was wont to observe Mottka. There were many things demanding the philosophical attention of Policeman Billings. Not so long ago the neighborhood which he policed had been renowned to the four corners of the earth as the rendezvous of more temptations than even St. Anthony enumerated in his interesting brochure on the subject.
All hands but one cook and one engineer had mustered on deck, showing a fair semblance of a full-powered watch; and the one cook Billings displayed himself above the hatch for one brief moment, clad in a spotless white jacket. Then, just before the two bridges came together, Jenkins hurried down the steps and aft to Denman to speak a few words, then hasten forward.
The remark was one that, said by Ray himself in his whimsical and downright manner, was destitute of any hidden meaning, and Billings, who had not seen Ray for years, would never have misunderstood it, but when he first heard it six months afterwards, and while Ray and himself had yet to meet, it was told semi-confidentially, told as Ray never said it, told in fact by Gleason; and Billings, who was of a nervous, sensitive disposition, as outspoken in a way as Ray was in his, was hurt more than a little.
Then came Bain, who weighed two hundred and seventeen pounds, had been a preacher, and was so mild that if you stood on his corns he would only ask you to get off when it was time to go to class. He was followed by Skeeter Wilson, the human dumpling, and Billings, who always carried an umbrella to classes and who had it with him then.
The dark threatening clouds which had enveloped the heavens for the past twenty-four hours now cleared away, although the wind still blew pretty fresh from the south-west, and the sun coming out, Captain Billings told me to go and fetch my sextant in order to take an observation so as to ascertain our true position; for, first with the north-easter, and then with the squall from the south, we had been so driven here, there, and everywhere, that it was difficult to form any reasonable surmise as to where we really were especially as there was a strong current supposed to run round Cape Horn from the Pacific towards the Atlantic Ocean at certain tides.
Inside of five minutes I see 'twas no use; we was bound across the bay. "And now commenced a v'yage that beat any ever took sence Noah's time, I cal'late; and even Noah never went to sea in an automobile, though the one animal I had along was as much trouble as his whole menagerie. Billings was howlin' blue murder. "'Stop that bellerin'! I ordered. 'Quit it, d'you hear!
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