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"Haul down the tack, Jack, and get a pull of the foresheet," he sang out. There was a fresh breeze from the south-east blowing almost up the harbour, but by keeping over on the Portsmouth side, aided by the tide, we stood clear out of it. The wherry soon began to pitch into the seas, which came rolling in round Southsea Castle in a way which made the doctor look very blue.
Bill, give her a jerk towards the wherry, and we'll duck him." "My friend," said the actor, addressing me: "Let not his unwholesome corpse come between the wind And my nobility. "Let us exeunt, OP." Although I could not understand his phrases, I knew very well what he meant, and pulling smartly, I shoved towards the shore, and ahead.
The count thanked him; and after defraying the expenses of the voyage, and giving money amongst the sailors, he desired that his portmanteau might be put into the wherry.
Then she suddenly remembered her promise to Prudy, not to go "anywhere near the water." "And I never thought I should. I never s'posed I should see Solly Rosenberg. I didn't know he was in this city. Prudy'd like it just as well as I do, if she was in here, and knew 'twas a wherry."
When all this was accomplished, and the pot put on again in preparation for supper, the lads might use the short time that remained as they would, and Hansen himself showed Ambrose a shelf of books concealed by a blue curtain, whence he might read. Will Wherry showed unconcealed amazement that this should be the taste of his companion.
"Jacob," said Tom to me, pulling his wherry into the hard, alongside of mine, in which I was sitting with one of Mr Turnbull's books in my hand; "Jacob, do you recollect that my time is up to-morrow? I shall have run off my seven years, and when the sun rises I shall be free of the river. How much more have you to serve?" "About fifteen months, as near as I can recollect, Tom. Boat, sir?"
Brother Jack, a seaman's bag over his shoulders, trudged sturdily ahead; father followed, carrying the oars, spars, sails, and other gear of the wherry, while as I toddled alongside him I held on with one hand to the skirt of his pea-jacket, and griped the boat-hook which had been given to my charge with the other.
"What's the name of the craft you want to get aboard, sir?" asked old Bob, the one-legged boatman, whose wherry I had hired to carry me out to Spithead.
When he heard what he was wanted for he stepped aboard. "I hope to be back in a couple of hours, or three at furthest, Polly," father sang out to mother, as he shoved off the wherry. "Good-bye, lass, and see that Peter makes himself useful." Mother waved her hand.
He may bleed a lot, but they can hold that in check until we get the doctor." They drove on, and were presently in the village. They had been told where Dr. Wherry had gone to a drugstore to get some medical supplies and thither they made their way. "Do you notice how every one is staring at us?" asked Alice, as they drove along the streets.
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