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Will descended the steps, and found the man leaning against the dock-wall. "Now, friend, we'll climb these stairs." "I will help you hic yes up." "You are very kind, but let me help you first. Now go it! Tough! You don't gain a peg." "You'll have me hic over friend." "Have you over! It's the other way, man." "Well shay! It's all right, aint it? hic." "O yes! We wont quarrel about it.
Or, reversing the metaphor, we might liken our present state to that of the hulls of ships submerged in a dim ocean among strange monsters, propelled in a blind manner through space; proud perhaps of accumulating many barnacles as decoration; only recognizing our destination by bumping against the dock-wall; and with no cognizance of the deck and cabins above us, or the spars and sails no thought of the sextant, and the compass, and the captain no perception of the lookout on the mast of the distant horizon.
Will, having leaped the fence, ran past the fish-flakes to the edge of the stone dock-wall. It was so dark that his running was neither rapid nor straight. "Somebody is down in the dock," thought Will. "Don't worry!" he shouted, "I am here." He now heard a series of noises, some of them distinct and quite human. Others were confused outcries.
To dip your oar about three times in the same hole from whence you withdrew it, to tug at it with all your might, apparently making as much progress as though you were fast to a dock-wall, and to continue this fun for four or five hours at a stretch, is to wonder indeed whether you have not mistaken your vocation.
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