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Then the boat-hook he wielded with a circular sweep began to take grotesque shapes in my heated fancy; now it was the antenna of a groping insect, now the crank of a cripple's selfpropelled perambulator, now the alpenstock of a lunatic mountaineer, who sits in his chair and climbs and climbs to some phantom 'watershed'. At the back of such mind as was left me lodged two insistent thoughts: 'we must hurry on, 'we are going wrong. As to the latter, take a link-boy through a London fog and you will experience the same thing: he always goes the way you think is wrong.
"Madonna mia, what a business!" "Eh, you rascal? what did you see?" asked the sailor, turning the boat-hook round and holding it so that he could rap the boy's knuckles with the butt end of it. "There was the Count, who is Ruggiero's padrone, trying to kiss your signora's maid, and offering her the gold, and she yah!" Another hideous grimace, apparently of delight, interrupted the narrative.
All he did was to growl and show his teeth, as if he longed to have us all within his paws. This made us bolder and less cautious, so we got close up to him. "We are still too far for me to heave the bight over his shoulders," cried Terence. "Just see if you can't get hold of his dinner with the boat-hook, and that will bring him nearer."
Instead of the heads, throw in this piece of wood;" which she now broke off the boat-hook staff. I did so, and Nero brought it out, as he had done the heads of the fish. I patted and coaxed the animal, and tried him again several times with success. "Now," said my mother, "you must accustom him to certain words when you send him for anything.
Hope you gents have come to take him back where he belongs. Needs to be shut up, he does." "But where is he?" demands Mr. Robert. "Out back of the house, swingin' an old boat-hook and carryin' on simple," says Lem. "I'll show you." It was some sight, too.
Well, up I came again, and caught the brim of my beaver-hat though I have heard that drowning men catch at straws: I floated, and hoped to escape by hook or by crook; and, luckily, just then, I felt myself suddenly jerked by the waistband of my whites, and found myself hauled up in the air at the end of a boat-hook, to the sound of "Yeho! yeho! yehoi! yehoi!" and so I was dragged aboard.
He is just floating along, waiting for some one to thrust out a boat-hook and pull him in." "I shall marry no floating log," said Dora, stiffly. The old lady laughed.
He was followed almost instantly by Dick, his arms wrapped around the motionless form of Dan Dalzell. "Get close and we'll haul you in!" called Tom Reade, a boat-hook in his hand. "Is Dan drowned!" demanded a dozen voices. "Don't ask questions now!" cried Tom Reade impatiently, without looking about him. "Keep quiet! It's a time for work." Abashed, the questioners became silent.
If we come to blows at any time, just keep behind me, boy, and don't be after getting yourself killed or hurt, or I'll never take you to see any more fun, remember that." It was clear, by this remark, that my uncle had not forgotten the old country; and I promised to obey his directions. In a few minutes the bow of the boat touched the shore, and we, by aid of a boat-hook, jumped on the sand.
"We're going away from him," cried the lieutenant. "Pull round, my lads," he cried, seizing the tiller. "Now then, steady. Be smart there with a boat-hook. Roberts, ahoy!" "Help, help," came again, from somewhere astern now, for the poor fellow was growing weak.
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