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The channel into this natural harbour trended as nearly as possible due east and west; and, with the wind as it then stood, the ship, in order to get to sea, would have to make a series of short tacks to windward.
"After the table and the chairs are used up, we'll provide tacks for the rest." "Does this little boy ever have a serious streak?" asked one of the callers, regarding Dan with feigned interest. "Yes; whenever he finds himself marked down to 2.1 in more than three studies," laughed Dave. "Oh, that's no laughing matter," grimaced another of the visiting midshipmen.
His sarcasm caused no change to cross the girl's face; but Lem grinned broadly. He took the tacks from between his teeth and made as if to speak. After a few vain stutters, however, he replaced the tacks and hammered away at the old boot. Now and then the goiter moved up and down, each movement indicating the passage of a thought through his sluggish brain.
Peg, apparently unconscious that there was meat in sight, rambled in erratic tacks that crowded the rabbit toward the ridge. Breed saw a crouching shape slip behind a sage within ten feet of the jack, whose eyes were occupied with Peg. There was a flash of yellow as Cripp struck him and the dying squall of the big hare floated to Breed's ears.
Still, we had several tacks more to make before we gained the entrance to Crow Sound, between Saint Mary's and Saint Martin's. By this time it was dark. A bright look-out was kept for rocks and shoals in the channel.
Dickey went out for a paper of tacks, and Johnny drew on the wall, directly opposite the entrance of the hall, the outlines of the word to be filled up with the paper flowers. But there was a difference of opinion among those who were watching him as to how the word should be spelled.
"Can you make her out?" "No, sir, not yet." "Well, keep your eye lifting, my man, and sing out when you do. Mr. Simpson," he said, turning to the officer of the deck, "let her go off a couple of points." "Ay, ay, sir. Up with the helm, quartermaster, round in the weather-braces, rise tacks and sheets."
One of Whitman's remarks upon this head is worth quotation, as he is there perfectly successful, and does precisely what he designs to do throughout: Takes ordinary and even commonplace circumstances; throws them out, by a happy turn of thinking, into significance and something like beauty; and tacks a hopeful moral lesson to the end.
"And several of us got on more tacks than one," rejoined Arthur. "I did, at any rate." "It just shows you that there is little use in trying to play tricks on Jack Sheldon," said Billy, "and I won't be such a chump again." "Some one else thinks the same way," said Jack quietly to Arthur. "What do you mean by that, Jack?" the other boy asked.
It appeared as if they were about to crush the little frigate with their united weight. "Ready, lads!" shouted the captain of the "Pallas." "Clew up! Haul down!" Those magic words put every human being on board the frigate in motion. Tacks and sheets were let go. Some hauled away at the brails.
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