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A still more vigorous shove by the men some with backs applied, some with arms, and all with a will sent it stern-foremost into the sea. It took in a few gallons of water by the plunge, but was none the worse for that. At the same moment Zulu literally tumbled into it. No stepping or jumping into it was possible with the sea that was running.
I have contrived a sort of ceremonial inclined plane for such visitors, which being lubricated with certain smooth phrases, I back them down, metaphorically speaking, stern-foremost, into their 'native element, the great ocean of outdoors." There are social companies as hard to get rid of as this.
"Hooroo! capting," shouted Larry, jumping up with delight; "mind yer fut, capting, dear; don't come in." "Why not?" inquired the captain, as he lifted the curtain. "Sure, it's no use tellin' ye now!" said Larry, as Captain Bunting fell head-foremost into Ah-wow's arms, and drove that worthy creature as he himself would have said "stern-foremost" into the mud and water at the bottom.
About a quarter of a mile away, buffeted like a cork on the water, was a boat, and in it something red. "Stand up and wave; it's no use shouting," said Armstrong. Taking advantage of a temporary lull, they stood and waved their coats above their heads. Whether they were seen or not, they could not tell. No signal came in return; only the boat as it seemed, stern-foremost drove on towards them.
I have contrived a sort of ceremonial inclined plane for such visitors, which being lubricated with certain smooth phrases, I back them down, metaphorically speaking, stern-foremost, into their "native element," the great ocean of out-doors. Well, now, there are poems as hard to get rid of as these rural visitors.
The ship is now adrift, and driving slowly stern-foremost toward the outer basin. So long as we see no sign of alarm from the people on shore I shall let her drive; that will increase our chances of a good start. But the moment you see any indication of an attempt to launch a boat give me the word; and we must then get the jib on the ship and put her head round.
It is supposed that he spends a good deal of his time ranging the forest in search of "bee trees." Of course he is a tree-climber climbs by the "hug," not by means of his claws, as do animals of the cat kind; and in getting to the ground again descends the trunk, stern-foremost, as a hod-carrier would come down a ladder. In this he again differs from the felidae.
Even so late as Irving the ships of the greatest navigators in the world were represented as sailing equally well stern-foremost. That the aristocratic Venetians should have "Riveted with gigantic piles Thorough the center their new catchèd miles" was heroic. But the far more marvelous achievement of the Dutch in the same kind was ludicrous even to republican Marvell.
They further averred that we hoed up whole acres of Indian corn and other crops, and drew the earth carefully about the weeds; and that we raised five hundred tufts of burdock, mistaking them for cabbages; and that, by dint of unskilful planting, few of our seeds ever came up at all, or, if they did come up, it was stern-foremost; and that we spent the better part of the month of June in reversing a field of beans, which had thrust themselves out of the ground in this unseemly way.
Still holding the man's head above water, she threw her body against the sweep and guided the boat stern-foremost into the opening. A few more strokes and it grounded at the foot of the bank. She passed the collar of the chattering man to Dave Harney, who dragged him out and started him off on the trail of the mail-carriers. Frona stood up, her cheeks glowing from the quick work.
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