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"Luff," he would cry, "luff, luff, and come to win'ward and we'll give you the weight o' the mainsail down the hill." It would be doing a man's heart good to be hearing Bryde making a mock of the old captain at these times, and the good laughter of him that would start a houseful o' folk to laugh also. It was when he was for McKinnon's that he fell in with Helen.
Smoke, I don't mind tellin' you in confidence that before we started I was the gosh-dangdest scaredest man this side of the Rocky Mountains. Now I'm a bear-eater. Come on an' we'll run that other boat through." Midway back, on foot, they encountered their employers, who had watched the passage from above. "There comes the fish-eaters," said Shorty. "Keep to win'ward."
On the mountains my feet were almost without feeling at all with the cold, and my clothes sticking to my shoulders with sweat; and on the last of the hills McKinnon clapped like a startled hare. "Look at yon," he whispered; "they're to win'ward o' us after a'."
"'Docks, says he, ''tis a clever thought. "'Twas Skipper Jim's trick at the wheel, an' I loafed aft t' have a word with un keepin' well t' win'ward all the time; for he'd just come up from the forecastle. "'Skipper Jim, says I, 'we're found out. "'What's found out? says he. "'The case o' smallpox for'ard, says I. 'What you goin' t' do about it? "'Do! says he. 'What'll I do?
"Hello, hello!" cried the Captain, rolling from his hammock. "Turtle? Where-away?" "I tink-um 'bout quallah mile, mebbee, four-piecee tortle all-same weatha bow." "Turtle, hey? Down y'r wheel, Jim, haul y'r jib to win'ward," he commanded the man at the wheel; then to the men forward: "Get the dory overboard. Son, Charlie, and you, Wing, tumble in. Wake up now and see you stay so."
"Keep to win'ward." After running the strangers' boat through, whose name proved to be Breck, Kit and Shorty met his wife, a slender, girlish woman whose blue eyes were moist with gratitude. Breck himself tried to hand Kit fifty dollars, and then attempted it on Shorty.
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