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They would hitch her vision, not to a star, but to a a tin dipper. You don't understand. You know it seems to me, Mrs. Blair, that most people, women, anyhow, are like great big houses with only half the rooms in use. The mentality closed up and musty from disuse because they have never found or made the keys. I want my child to live roundly in all her mental rooms.
Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles; at his eyes were red, and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
"Do you think there is any danger?" asked the fair maiden, who was deeply impressed by the earnest manner of the boatman. "I hope not," replied he, more cheerfully, for he did not wish to alarm her. "If I can only get into Dipper Bay, which is hardly half a mile from here, we shall be all right; and we may have time to run into the river."
The great dipper wheeled in circle; the moon rose; the dawn came; still the girl, with the groans of the dying around her, held the wounded boy in her arms. Is there a painter in Virginia who desires a great subject? There it is; and it is historical. When the sun rose, Willie Davenant opened his eyes, and gazed up into her face.
This was undoubtedly the bird's manner of begging for food, a very pretty and well-bred way, too, vastly superior to the impetuous calls and demands of some young birds. The movement was "dipping," of course, and he was the dipper, or ouzel baby, that had been cradled in that fountain-dashed nest by the fall.
Turning, he scanned the starry sky, and by means of his scanty knowledge of astronomy identified the Great Dipper. Its pointers located the North Star. Under it he knew lay Isle au Haut, now a low, black ridge on the horizon, east of Saddleback Light. Percy settled himself on the thwart, steeled his muscles, and gripped the oars harder.
"I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale." So another round was ordered. Horner passed around the cigarettes, and Browning declined them. The others lighted up fresh ones. "Say," broke out Emery, suddenly, "do you know that fresh Ditson gives me that tired feeling?"
"The next day about noon as the girls were dipping doughnuts the chief doughnut dipper stumbled once more into the hut, tired, dirty, dusty and worn, but with his eyes sparkling: "Just thought I ought to come back and tell you I'm all right," he said. "I was afraid you'd be worried. My wife and baby would, anyway." The girls received him with exultant smiles.
It was a relief when the men climbed their ladder and our host bade us good-night. Early morning found me awake, but already someone had hospitably kindled our fire, and when we went out on to the porch, where a tin basin and gourd dipper supplied the only bathing facilities, a small tow-headed boy was there before us with hot, water in a saucepan.
"Do they like to have you catch 'em?" said Prudy, dropping her little dipper, and going to the fence; "don't it hurt?" "Hurt? Not as I know of. They needn't bite if they don't want to." "No," returned Prudy, looking very wise, "I s'pose they want to get out, and that's why they bite. Of course when fishes stay in the water much it makes 'em drown."
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