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Then as the stream caught us, sweeping the boat out towards the centre of the river, he began to laugh that horrible laugh of his, calling after us "Ride fast, ride fast for safety, strangers; there is death behind." Leo put out his strength and backed water, so that the punt hung upon the edge of the stream.
With many bows and cringes he pulled up the pole and pushed the punt to the steps of the house over which the flag hung, where people were gathering, drawn by the clamour.
"Keep out," said Mr. Polly. Uncle Jim with a great effort got a footing, emerged until his arm-pits were out of water, until his waistcoat buttons showed, one by one, till scarcely two remained, and made for the camp sheeting. "Keep out!" cried Mr. Polly, and leapt off the punt and followed the movements of his victim along the shore. "I tell you I got a weak chess," said Uncle Jim, moistly.
But, putting a bold face on the matter, and assuming a fraternal air, he took her to the torture-chamber, in which candidates sat dolefully on a row of chairs against the wall, waiting their turn to come before the three grand inquisitors at the table. Fortunately, Winifred and he were the only spectators; but unfortunately they blundered in at the very moment when the poor owner of the punt was on the rack. The central inquisitor was trying to extract from him information about
As long as he could, our duck led us down stream, then, when we had all but caught him, he made a feint of swooping off to the right, a manoeuvre which our coxswain promptly followed. But no sooner was our rudder round than the rogue deftly brought his punt sharp to the left, and so once more escaped us.
The boys and girls went down to the dock, singing and shouting. Mrs. Tingley and the foreman came behind. Three other men were making ready a huge punt in which the entire party might be transported to the island. Later the punt would return for the extra baggage. This vehicle for water-travel was a shallow, skiff-like boat, almost as broad as it was long, and with a square bow and stern.
The Moze punt was tied up to the buoy, and Aguilar held a lantern on a boathook, while Jane Foley, very wet, was doing a spell of baling. Aguilar dropped the boathook and, casting off, brought the punt alongside the yacht. The steps were lowered and Jane Foley, with laughing, rain-sprinkled face, climbed up. Aguilar handed her bag which contained nearly everything she possessed on earth.
Her eyes were downcast, and the man in the punt could not see the deep shadow of pain they held. "If I can't have corn," she said slowly, with the air of one pronouncing sentence, "I won't have husks. I will die of starvation sooner." And with that very suddenly she rose and walked round the sheaf. The movement was abrupt, so abrupt that Hugh Chesyl lifted his brows in astonishment.
The cedar bough almost brushed the glass, and the slope of turf came so high up the wall, that an active youth could easily swing himself down to it; and the superintendent significantly remarked that the punt was on the farther side of the stream, whereas the evening before it had been on the nearer. Dr.
Maybe for a few day, zur, ye might take a 'and yerself if ye didn't mind." I waved the hand referred to the forefinger part of it in a deprecating manner. I couldn't pole the lightest and most tractable punt ten yards in a straight line to save my own or anybody else's life.
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