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"The bells of the Roman mission That call from their turrets twain To the boatman on the river, To the hunter on the plain." "To the hunter on the plain," said Shag's thoughts, over and over.
'An' a good Resolution, and a blessed ship she's been to me, piped out an old woman, close at Mary's elbow. 'She's brought me home my ae' lad for he shouted to yon boatman to bid him tell me he was well. An' me a widow as never thought to see my lad again! It seemed as if everybody relied on every one else's sympathy in that hour of great joy.
I would be much pleas'd to see some heroic, shrewd, fully-inform'd, healthy-bodied, middle-aged, beard-faced American blacksmith or boatman come down from the West across the Alleghanies, and walk into the Presidency, dress'd in a clean suit of working attire, and with the tan all over his face, breast, and arms; I would certainly vote for that sort of man, possessing the due requirements, before any other candidate.
Moved with pity he urged upon the boatman to go to his rescue and deliver him from drowning. He was sternly told, however, to keep silence. "The figure you see there," said the boatman, "is yourself or rather, it is but the shell of your old self, in which you worked out your redemption in the world beyond, and which you could never use in the new life upon which you have entered."
The officers of the Natchez claimed 7 hours and 1 minute stoppage on account of fog and repairing machinery. The R. E. Lee was commanded by Captain John W. Cannon, and the Natchez was in charge of that veteran Southern boatman, Captain Thomas P. Leathers. THESE dry details are of importance in one particular.
When Paul who had ridden in early from the little village, where he had been storm-stayed had tried to impress a crew, the peon boatman had sworn volubly that no pole would touch bottom and that one might as well try to paddle the town as a heavy canoe against such a flood. But when Bachelder stepped in and manned the big sweep, a half-dozen followed. Notwithstanding, their river wisdom proved.
"Neighbor Vito Viti," put in the vice-governatore, "it may be well to remember that this matter is not to be recorded as you would put on file the confessions of a thief; it may be better to let the honest boatman tell his story in his own way." "Aye, now the vecchy has set to work, I hope we shall get the worth of our ducat," observed Cuffe, in English.
It would be better if Clown would make an oil painting of the scene and exhibit it for the public. "This will be about the best place." So saying the boatman stopped rowing the boat and dropped an anchor. "How deep is it?" asked Red Shirt, and was told about six fathoms. "Hard to fish sea-breams in six fathoms," said Red Shirt as he dropped a line into the water.
Just at that moment the skipper came up from below, saw what was going on at a glance, strode towards the group, which began to dissolve at once, the Bun being the only man whose attention was taken up by a boatman who was answering his signal.
There ain't a better boatman on the beach. Been that way ever since he was a boy. Won't do him a bit of harm to lead that kind of life for a year or two. If he was mine it wouldn't take me a minute to tell what I'd do." Jane leaned back in her chair, her eyes on the crackling logs, and began patting the carpet with her foot. Lucy became engrossed in a book that lay on the table beside her.
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