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Tom took the hellum, I stood by to let go the anchor, and Jim he straddled the bow to dig through the fog with his eyes and watch out for danger ahead. We went along a steady gait, but not very fast, and the fog got solider and solider, so solid that Jim looked dim and ragged and smoky through it. It was awful still, and we talked low and was anxious.
And to think that my spotless child that I have guarded so sedgously from every breath of evil should have it concealed in his pocket. I have always burnt every copy I've found." And agin she sobbed, and agin I sez: "Sister Whisher, don't take it so to heart; he'll have to weather worst storms than this on the sea of life. And you can't expect to be with him always and stand to the hellum."
With a glance seaward his keen eye had detected a distant floating object that was momentarily uplifted on the back of a long swell, and flashed white in the rays of the setting sun. "Luff her, David! Hard down with your hellum, and trim in all," he shouted to the steersman. "There, steady, so." "Wot's hup?" inquired the man a few minutes later, as the other rejoined him on deck.
He felt much better, and he cal'lated he'd do till we fetched the Old Home dock. He'd take the wheel, now, he guessed. "But, would you b'lieve it, that fool Jonadab wouldn't let him! He was used to the ship now, he said, and, if 'twas all the same to Henry G. and Hettie, he'd kind of like to run her into port. "'She answers her hellum fine, he says.
Then, at this stage, being invariably "by the head," or "by the stern," or "listed to port or starboard," he took one more to "put him on an even keel so that he would mind his hellum and not miss stays and go about, every time he came up in the wind."
Garfield's early career as a canal boy led to such campaign songs as the following: He early learned to paddle well his own forlorn canoe, Upon Ohio's grand canal he held the hellum true. And now the people shout to him: "Lo! 't is for you we wait. We want to see Jim Garfield guide our glorious ship of state."
I knew my tower must be but a short one, for sugarin'-time wus approachin' with rapid strides, and Samantha must be at the hellum. But I also knew, that with a determined mind, and a willin' heart, great things could be accomplished speedily; so I commenced makin' preparations, and layin' on plans.
Jonadab was steerin' less crooked every minute and it tickled him; you could see that. "'Answers her hellum tiptop, don't she? he says. "'Bet your life! says Bradbury. 'Better put on a little more speed, hadn't we?" He put it on himself, afore the new pilot could stop him, and we commenced to move.
For one sailor will always tell what another is about, however great the distance intervening. Slowly the boat came on, rolling tremendously on the curve of the breakers, between the broken water of the tideway and the spume of the surf. "That's Loo at the hellum," said Sea Andrew the keenest eyes in Farlingford.
Oh, not much. Just like any other place." "But what do you do down there?" "Do? Why, we fish, in the pleasant weather." "And when it's not pleasant?" "Oh, then we make things taut, hoist fores'l, clap the hellum into the lee becket, and go below and amuse ourselves." "How?" I asked, as if I hadn't heard it all a hundred times. "One way 'n' another.
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