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You see, when we get there we'll find tents all set up and ready for us." "Is there any fishing?" Dolly smacked her lips. "You bet there is!" she said. "Best sea bass you ever tasted, and about all you can catch, too! And it tastes delicious, because the fish down there get cooked almost as soon as they're caught. And there are lobsters and crabs and it's good fun to go crabbing.
Hanny squeezed her hand. The throng of children ran over the grassy path from the shop; and they all began to clamour that Polly and Janey should come up Saturday and go crabbing with them. Mrs. Odell said she'd see, if they could get their work done in time. There was a hubbub of good-byes, and the small cavalcade started down the road. The city by the sea sung itself in Hanny's brain.
D'you suppose that a man who earns his livin' by runnin' 30-knot destroyers for a parstime for a parstime, mark you! is going to lie down before any blighted land- crabbing steam-pinnace on springs?" Yet that was what he did. Directly under the car he lay and looked upward into pipes petrol, steam, and water with a keen and searching eye. I telegraphed Mr. Pyecroft a question.
I knew you weren't crabbing over what you might lose for yourself but over the thought that your father had been tricked. I tried to put myself in your place and if I'd been you I know I'd have kicked me off the place, or told Waddles to turn loose his wolf." He switched abruptly away from the topic in hand and reverted to the subject they had discussed an hour past.
There was a little glitter in Thomson's eyes. "These damned civilians!" he murmured softly. "They've done their best to ruin Great Britain by crabbing every sort of national service during the last ten years.
"We do," Rick agreed. Scotty added, "First of all, we have to warn Orvil Harris. If he goes crabbing in the middle of the night, he might foul a prop on the stake we left there." "The people in the mansion can't be suspicious of Orvil," Rick went on. "He goes crabbing there every day. They must be used to him by now. Suppose we call him, to warn him about the stake, and to see if he'll help out."
They call that 'tonging' oysters, an' the thing he uses is called the 'tongs." "I've been wondering," said Colin, as they passed over the bay and he noted again all the lobster-pot buoys which had interested him so greatly on the way to New Bedford, "I've been wondering whether there was any crabbing done up this way?"
It was somewhat uncommon for any one in the wee boat to save himself, truly, but even in this feature of the present case the prince experienced but a mild interest. "Who are you?" he said. "A fisherman?" "Not exactly," answered Mr. Heatherbloom, "though sometimes I crab. I was crabbing yesterday." As he spoke his gaze swept beyond to not far-distant cabin doors and windows.
You see, when we get there we'll find tents all set up and ready for us." "Is there any fishing?" Dolly smacked her lips. "You bet there is!" she said. "Best sea bass you ever tasted, and about all you can catch, too! And it tastes delicious, because the fish down there get cooked almost as soon as they're caught. And there are lobsters and crabs and it's good fun to go crabbing.
"He's the best man we've got!" said Freddy proudly to a dubious uncle, "there isn't a mortal thing he can't put his hand to." "Or lay his hands on," suggested the dubious uncle. "May I ask if his colleagues are still within a mile of the place?" "Oh, he hates the very sight of 'em!" said Freddy hastily, "cuts 'em dead whenever he sees 'em." "It's no use your crabbing him, George," broke in Mrs.
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