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The fishers had brought with them the mast of a boat, and as half of the country fellows about had now appeared, either out of zeal or curiosity, it was soon sunk in the ground, and sufficiently secured.
They were comparatively small, of the kind known as chatas, or chatten, a sort of coast boat of slight draught, used for river work and for the conveyance of goods from the Chagres to the cities on the Main. They had iron and brass guns aboard them, which were hoisted out, and mounted in the fort.
For one thing, he was away in secret, pondering over the invention of further appliances to be tried out on the boat now building. More than that, David Pollard, shy and with no head for affairs, entrusted all new business arrangements to Jacob Farnum, who, he felt sure, could be trusted with a friend's interests. "It's tough to be poor," grimaced Hal Hastings.
She clung to his arm, and they struggled up the private path to the house. Mills let them in with many expressions of concern, and Helen came hurrying to them from the background. "I went out to see the storm," Philippa explained weakly, "and I saw Mr. Lessingham's boat brought in." "And Mr. Lessingham will come this way at once," Helen insisted.
Dirk shook his head. "It be no use," he said, "but we ken try. I be not one to hev it said that I be unthankful. Here, lads, give us a hand! Ef I'll be riskin' my life fur any one, 'tis fur the lad yender." They dragged a boat down to the curling line of foam, and watching for a favorable opportunity, launched it. Trafford sprang in with them, and they pushed into the darkness.
Somewheres along of three bells we saw them getting a boat out by Pita's house, and lo and behold! it was Tweedie, with the native pastor and a divinity student named Henry to pull him.
They found the torpedo boat with her nose pointed toward the hole she had torn in the side of the ship, about a hundred feet away from the wrecked sloop-of-war. She had been riddled with bullets and shattered by the explosion of her own torpedo. She was, of course, filled with water, and in her, at their stations, they found the bodies of her devoted crew, Lacy with his hand on the wheel.
The inauguration of each new system, each new reform religious, political, educational, economic practically they're all in the same boat let alone the inevitable breakdown or petering out of each, necessarily produces a fresh crop of such waste and refuse material.
Probably he won't have the interest six months from now." "I'll see about it." "There is one other thing; you would have a better chance to sell the boat for a profit than the cows." "Well, Conrad, I will think of it, as I said. I am going around to Farmer Grant's this evening, and I will broach the subject." Later in the day Conrad met Jimmy Morris.
"Yes," fixing her eyes on his; "and I sent" she stopped with a shiver, and her husband said, "Abram" "to cut some bushes to make a broom," she went on. "I had been for a walk to the old house, and as I came back I laid my gloves and a bit of vine on the steps, intending to return at once; but I wished to see if the boat was safe, for the water was rising so rapidly."
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