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Edgar observed the jerk, and felt the diver make a violent effort to disengage one hand, with the intention, no doubt, of replying; he therefore held him all the tighter, and seizing the line replied for him "All right."
"Yes," said Gabriel, "it's dreadful to be young when a man's drowning, for you can't do any thing. Hist!" There was not a movement, as they heard a dull, distant sound. "I guess that's Jim Greenidge," whispered Little Malacca, under his breath; "he's the best diver." Nobody answered. The slow minutes passed. Some of the boys peered timidly into the dark, and clung closer to their neighbors.
Joe leaned back and saw, by the motions made by Rand's fingers, that the diver was trying to tell him to pry on the valve itself. Joe turned back to his work again. His heart was beating like a hammer now. Every muscle ached with the strain and his head felt as if it would burst. Joe knew he must have passed the four-minute period. How much longer could he stay under? Not long, he feared.
The latter also has such very small, almost rudimentary wings, that it must have been chiefly a swimmer and a diver like a Penguin; while Ichthyornis has strong wings and no doubt possessed corresponding powers of flight.
They told me that it was called the Blackbird; but what ever possessed anybody to give it such a ridiculous name I never could imagine. If they had called it Black Duck, or Black Diver, there would have been some sense in it, for the ship was driving head foremost into the water pretty much all the time.
Threading his way among the boats of the divers, the Malay skipper, for such he seemed, signed to the rowers to stop, and directed his attention specially to one boat. In truth this boat seemed worthy of attention because of the energy of the men on board of it. A diver had just leaped from its side into the sea.
One's voice is all to one's self there, as you know. Well, sing us the song of the little brown diver." Parpon's hands twitched in his beard. He looked fixedly at Medallion. Presently he turned towards the Cure, and shrank so that he looked smaller still. "It's all right, little son," said the Cure kindly. Turning sharply on Medallion, Parpon said: "When was it you heard?" Medallion told him.
Baldwin, Joe Baldwin, as his intimate friends call him," said Aileen eagerly. "I know him well; he is in my district." "What!" exclaimed Mr Hazlit, "not one of your paupers?" Aileen burst into a merry laugh. "No, papa, no; not a pauper certainly. He's a well-off diver, and a Wesleyan a local preacher, I believe but he lives in my district, and is one of the most zealous labourers in it. Oh!
And now upon this morning, that yet was night, I was adrift upon a horse with a definite task in the great circle of immensity. The rest of the world was nothing, and I rode delicately over the rotten grey ground till the starshine dwindled and the day came up like a slow diver through dark waters.
Beyond the general improvement in detail and in the mode of manufacture, and with the exception of the application of the telephone, there is probably not much to be said in the way of invention or progress in connection with the ordinary dress of the diver. But one great step has been made in the diver's art by the introduction of the chemical system of respiration, the invention of Mr. Fleuss.
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