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"And I don't suppose you'll mind the seasickness after you get used to it," said the considerate Mr. Chalk, "and the storms, and the cyclones, and fogs, and collisions, and all that sort of thing." "If you can stand it, she can," said his wife, angrily. "But I don't understand," said Mrs. Stobell, appealingly. "What yachting trip?" Mrs. Chalk began to explain; Mr.
"Do you mean to put off the meeting and keep your directors waiting, to please a child?" "I suppose that's one reason. Anyway, I don't propose to hustle the little girl and her mother on board the steamer while they're helpless with seasickness." A gleam of humor crept into his eyes. "As I think I told you, I've no great objections to letting the gentlemen you mentioned await my pleasure."
Ishmael, sir, only a little seasickness, as all the passengers have. I dare say it will soon be over. I am only concerned because I can't come and wait on you," said the professor, speaking faintly, and with a great effort. "Never mind that, dear old friend. I can wait on myself very well; and on you, too, while you need attention." "Oh, Mr. Ishmael, sir!
Carr passed the boy. "What's the matter?" he asked. "You look rather white about the gills, messmate." "I I don't feel very well," replied Bob. "Better go and lie down then. I guess you're in for a spell of seasickness. Mr. Tarbill has already got his." Bob thought it would be best to follow the advice. He went to his berth, and soon he was a very sick boy.
The ocean voyage, with its seasickness, put them in an ugly mood, but the sight of the encampment and the cowboys dissipated their sullenness, and they shortly felt at home. The hospitality extended to all the members of the company by the inhabitants of the village in which they wintered was most cordial, and left them the pleasantest of memories.
Now imagine yourself parting with all you love, believing it to be a parting for life; breaking up your home, selling the things that years have made dear to you; starting on a journey without the least experience in travelling, in the face of many inconveniences on account of the want of sufficient money; being met with disappointment where it was not to be expected; with rough treatment everywhere, till you are forced to go and make friends for yourself among strangers; being obliged to sell some of your most necessary things to pay bills you did not willingly incur; being mistrusted and searched, then half starved, and lodged in common with a multitude of strangers; suffering the miseries of seasickness, the disturbances and alarms of a stormy sea for sixteen days; and then stand within, a few yards of him for whom you did all this, unable to even speak to him easily.
Frederick from his seat observed that many of them had to stop for an instant at the doorway to pluck up their courage. Then, with a charmingly humorous smile, they would conquer their dread of seasickness, particularly threatening in the dining-room, and step over the threshold.
An old swell was running, and he speedily discovered that seasickness was another thing his will could not master. That afternoon he watched Percy skilfully handle the splitting-knife and later do his part in baiting the trawl. On the morning following he went out lobstering, and found as much to interest him as on the day before. Everything was new to him.
But it ain't the mahogany I think of. It's the child's gettin' there safe and well." "Well," said the old man, "I asked the captain about the seasickness, and he says she ain't nigh so likely to be sick as she would on the steamer; the motion's more regular, and she won't have the smell of the machinery. That's what he said. And he said the seasickness would do her good, any way.
And if I did lose my grit up there, it was only for the moment sort of like seasickness. I'm all right now, and I'm going to the top." "Good!" encouraged Hazard. "You lie in the crevice this time, and I'll show you how easy it is." But Gus refused.
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