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Ruff had not found me an agreeable companion he would not have bothered about getting Spencer to meet me. And now he's done it," she added, "I do believe he's a little jealous." John Dory glared, but he said nothing. It seemed to him that his hour of revenge was close at hand! It was the first occasion upon which words of this sort had passed between Peter Ruff and his secretary.
A man had been reported injured on the Falcon. Placing Bronson in the dory, Gregory directed the skiff to be pulled aboard the Curlew. Then he climbed over the rail with Hawkins. "Bronson was hurt by a flying bottle," he explained. "Will you look after him? I've got to round up the boys and see what's doing."
There were several ships in the roadstead, and one of them was just leaving as the Kobuk boat came to anchor. She made a splendid sight as she gathered way. The returning miner went ashore in the first dory and as he stepped out upon the sand a friend greeted him: "Hello there, old settler! Where you been all winter?" "I've been to the Kobuk," Folsom told him. "Kobuk? I hear she's a bum."
Dolph and Brittler were coming with a lantern; a blur of light brightened through the fog. "The compass and chart are aboard," came the captain's voice, "and this can of gas'll be enough to make us sure of striking the mainland. Launch that dory!" The dip of oars and an increasing brightness told that the boat was approaching. It would not do for Percy to be detected.
After trying several methods he finally put the cat in a bag, walked a mile to Lane's Cove, tied the cat to a big stone with a firm sailor's knot, took it out in a dory some distance from the shore, and dropped the cat overboard. Then he went back home to find the cat purring on the doorstep.
She laughed in gayety of heart as she helped the young man draw his dory down the sand, and then took her place at one end while he gave it the last push and then leaped in at the other. He pulled out to where the boat lay tilting at anchor, and held the dory alongside by the gunwale that she might step aboard.
"Oh, look, look, papa!" cried Max; "there's a fisherman going out; he has his dory down on the beach, and is just watching for the right wave to launch it. I never can see the difference in the waves why one is better than half a dozen others that he lets pass. Can you, sir?" "No," acknowledged the captain; "but let us watch now and try to make out his secret."
My present fleet on the river Charles consists of three row-boats. 1. A small flat-bottomed skiff of the shape of a flat-iron, kept mainly to lend to boys. 2. A fancy "dory" for two pairs of sculls, in which I sometimes go out with my young folks. 3.
I paid out some sheet from the bitt by the wheel-box, unbuttoned the after stays'l tack, jumped forward and loosed up halyards till her kites dropped limp. "Down with your balloon there and at the wheel there, jibe her over. Watch out for that fellow astern he's pretty handy to our boat. Watch out in boat and dory!" The last warning was a roar.
"What do you think of this, mother?" almost shouted Arthur. "Del here says she's engaged to Dory Hargrave!" Mrs. Ranger stopped short. "Gracious!" she ejaculated. She felt for her "specs," drew them down from her hair, and hastily adjusted them for a good look, first at Arthur, then at Del.
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