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"What was Burling doing, Morris," asked Glover, sitting down by the stove. "Ask him, Garry," suggested Blood. They waited for the answer. "Were you asleep on your cot?" asked the despatcher, getting Rucker again. "If that fellow woke on my call, I'll make a despatcher of him," declared Morris Blood, with a thrill of fine pride. "No," answered Rucker, "I slept upstairs tonight."
After viewing many sights, all of which were exceedingly interesting to me, I returned to the house where my companions were. They told me that they had just heard that the ship Macedonian, which was taken a few days before from the British by one of our ships, had just been brought into the harbor and lay off down by Burling Slip, or in that region. We went down to see her, and went on board.
The Croonah turned her blunt prow half a point out into the Atlantic, and she raced on; she passed by Burling Island, leaving the slowly winking eye on her starboard quarter. Ahead lay the complete darkness of the north- west horizon. Luke stood at his post, his eyes hidden by his binoculars. He was studying the horizon in front of him in front of the Croonah.
Try Fort Rucker for the Special." "There's no night man at Fort Rucker." "But Burling, the day man, sleeps upstairs " "He goes up to Bear Dance to lodge." "This isn't lodge night," said Blood. "For God's sake, how can you get him upstairs, anyway?" trembled O'Neill. "On cold nights he sleeps downstairs by the ticket-office stove. I spent a night with him once and slept on his cot.
I cannot help observing that the viceroy, Don Joseph de Yturrigaray, received this communication with due contempt and indignation, bidding me to tell Mr. Burling that General Wilkinson, in counteracting any treasonable plan of Mr. He concluded by ordering Mr.
Burling to leave the city of Mexico, and had him safely escorted to the port of Vera Cruz, where he immediately embarked for the United States. Burr's plan fruitless, concluded by affirming "I, like Leonidas, boldly threw myself in the pass," &c. I return you the original exposition of the vice-queen, Donna Maria Ines Jauregui de Yturrigaray, and remain yours,
In the old days in the Michigan woods, when burling was considered a magnificent art of the lumberjack, he had been a champion, and for five minutes he spun his log until the water foamed, crossing and recrossing the river and winning the contest unanimously. From the bank, Mrs. McKaye and his daughters watched him with well-bred amusement and secret disapproval.
The Croonah raced on, a ship full of sleeping human beings. There came a faint blue tinge into the eastern sky, a gleam over the eastern sea. The Burling light an eye looking round into the darkness, seeming to open and shut sleepily grew brighter and brighter. It was right ahead! it rose as they approached it until it stood right above the bowsprit. Then Luke FitzHenry changed the course.
Keeping still to the bucolic days of the Avenue, we pass, going from Fifteenth to Eighteenth Street, through what was the farm of Thomas and Edward Burling, relatives of John and James Burling, old-time merchants whose name was given to Burling Slip, down by the East River. Also in the course of these blocks the Avenue crosses land that was the farm of John Cowman until 1836.
The Burling light is not a very big one not so big, some mariners think, as it should be. It is visible twenty-five miles away; but Luke's knowledge told him that in thick and misty weather, such as hovers over this coast in a westerly wind, the glare of the revolving lamp could not be distinguished at a greater distance than ten or twelve miles.
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