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I found myself in a sort of open-air parlor flanked by two tents; rustic seats under a canopy of maple boughs, hammocks, a percolator bubbling on a sheet-iron contrivance over the camp-fire coals, and, looking at me across a table, the girl. 'I beg your pardon, I hurried to say. 'Don't be afraid of me. "'Afraid? she repeated.
Ralph was doing his best to get him to sit down quietly by himself, when the hammocks were piped below and the men sprang up on deck to bring them down from the hammock-nettings. "I'm off for mine," cried Dick, getting on his legs and staggering along the deck. "I look as sober as a judge, whatever I may be, though I feel very jolly."
We then turned into our hammocks, slung between the trees, and slept soundly without fear of interruption; for the Indians kept unusually quiet lest they should alarm the turtles, while they were also on the watch to guard against a surprise from jaguars. At daybreak the next morning we went out with Padre Bobo and his chief man, who carried a long pole with which to search for the eggs.
A merry crew of them swing their hammocks from the pendulous boughs. During one of these later years, when the canker-worms stripped our elms as bare as winter, these birds went to the trouble of rebuilding their unroofed nests, and chose for the purpose trees which are safe from those swarming vandals, such as the ash and the button-wood.
"She made good view of me; indeed so much, That sure, methought, her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts, distractedly." Twelfth Night. Though most of the crew of the "Dolphin" slept, either in their hammocks or among the guns, there were bright and anxious eyes still open in a different part of the vessel.
And then they had a little sleep in the hammocks in the shade, under the apple tree. "What shall we do now, Bunny!" asked Sue when she awoke from her little nap, and saw her brother looking over at her from his hammock. Sue always wanted to be doing something, and so did Bunny. "What can we do?" asked the little brown-eyed girl. "Let's go out to the barn again," said Bunny.
Jack stayed on deck; he peeped through the ports, which were open, and looked down into the deep blue wave; he cast his eyes aloft, and watched the tall spars sweeping and tracing with their points, as it were, a small portion of the clear sky, as they acted in obedience to the motion of the vessel; he looked forward at the range of carronades which lined the sides of the deck, and then he proceeded to climb one of the carronades, and lean over the hammocks to gaze on the distant land.
By the time I was fifteen I knew a thing or two, and there wasn't a seaman aboard my father's ship who could beat me at anything." "At pulling the long bow especially," said a deep voice from one of the hammocks. "Who spoke?" inquired Mr Johnson, turning round sharply.
Miss Kitty looked very pale, not from fear of herself, but she dreaded the danger to which those on deck would be exposed. The wind increased and the sea got up: still we carried on, though our masts and spars bent and cracked. The sails were wetted hammocks were slung, and men with shot got into them indeed, every device was used to increase the speed of the ship.
The hut in which we slung our hammocks was very clean; and there we found fish, plantains, and what in the torrid zone is preferable to the most sumptuous food, excellent water.
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