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That night "the Bull," talking over the game with his side in the dormitories, said: "That Caruthers, you know, he's a good man; sort of fellow we want in the school. Can fight an uphill game. Got grit. He'll make a lot of runs for the school some day." On Monday Gordon saw his name down for nets with the Colts Eleven. Life was good just then. If only Jeffries were there too....
"Them as is big nets leadin' inter a pocket where the cod gets jest shut in," she informed me. "Wasn't it horrid to go on such a long trip and stay on a boat so long?" I enquired. "Sure, but we mostly gets landed there. They has shacks or little houses, an' flakes built up, in some places." "It must be very disagreeable," I said. "Laws, ma'am.
I looked straight into her little faded grey eyes, which straggle away from each other as if ashamed of their mutual ferret experiences, for you know one looks out so, and one turns always up, and I answered, that my brother had been exceedingly fortunate, as, notwithstanding the numerous matrimonial nets adroitly spread for him, he had escaped, like the Psalmist, 'as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers, and fled for safety unto the mountain of celibacy.
The time to move to the winter houses up the bay had already passed, and so the men at last thought best to go on and get them ready and then come out once more to haul and stow the nets and carry the women back with them. The long-delayed break came suddenly at last, with a blue sky and a bright, calm morning, but alas! no wind to move the packed-in slob ice.
"I resolved to find some means of escaping from my tower with the engaging prince I had seen. I was not long in devising a means for the execution of my project. I begged the fairies to bring me a netting-needle, a mesh and some cord, saying I wished to make some nets to amuse myself with catching birds at my window.
The sorcerer was an important personage at such entertainments, as it was necessary to assure good luck by a variety of magic ceremonies, that would not only protect the hunters from accidents, but would also bring the wild animals direct into their nets.
Among other fish which they caught in their nets, was one resembling a swine, which was covered all over with a very hard skin except the tail, which was quite soft. In this sea among the islands, the tide was observed to rise and fall much more than in the other places where they had been hitherto; and was quite contrary to ours in Spain, as it was low water when the moon was S.W. and by S.
But the young Fisherman answered, 'I will not let thee go save thou makest me a promise that whenever I call thee, thou wilt come and sing to me, for the fish delight to listen to the song of the Sea- folk, and so shall my nets be full. 'Wilt thou in very truth let me go, if I promise thee this? cried the Mermaid. 'In very truth I will let thee go, said the young Fisherman.
By and by they passed a fisherman drawing his nets, and bending from his boat, there near Albany, N. Y., in the picturesque immortal attitudes of Raphael's Galilean fisherman; and now a flush mounted the pale face of the east, and through the dewy coolness of the dawn there came, more to the sight than any other sense, a vague menace of heat.
The captain, after taking one look at her, was convinced that she was an enemy. "Quick! quick! my sons," he shouted: "we must haul the nets and make sail, or we shall be caught by the English. They are brave people, but I have no wish to see the inside of one of their prisons." All hands worked away as if their lives depended on their exertions. Jack and Bill lent a hand as usual.
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