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By the utter morosity of Algy's face faintly seen in the distance I conjecture that it is a joke; and, by the chuckling agony of zest with which the old man is delivered of it, I further conclude that it is something slightly unclean, but, thanks to the wind, none of us overtake a word of it. The wind's spirits are rising. Its play is becoming ever more and more boisterous.

A few more cuts cleared the bowsprit shrouds and other ropes, by which the enemy still hung on, and in another instant the prize was going off before the gale, while her disabled opponent luffed up into the wind's eye. Down came the squall, darker and more furious than before. Not another shot was fired.

She was astonished to find it had been over half an hour. "Heaven knows where the boat could have got to in half an hour," Ken muttered, "with this tide. And the wind's going to sea, too." Felicia shook him wildly by the arm. "Do you realize Kirk's in that boat!" she moaned. "Kirk's in that boat do you realize it?" Ken tore himself free.

While the cyclone, as we have shown, may have a diameter of hundreds of miles, the track of a tornado is often limited to a few hundred feet, and rarely has the width of half a mile. The cyclone carries with it a velocity of as much as 100 to 140 miles an hour. It sends a certain amount of warning ahead of its track, and the acceleration of the wind's speed at any given point, is gradual.

So I took off my apron and clapped it over my shoulders I've had a little rheumatism lately, and the wind's kind of cold to-day and I run over there. "I don't know what came over me. When I got to the house, a chill struck all through my bones. I trembled like a leaf. I felt as if something had happened.

In a short time she said: "Mother, your tea is waiting; and I have a letter from Mrs. Burrell, if you care anything about it." "Aw, my girl, I care little for Mrs. Burrell's letters to-night. She be well and happy, no doubt; and my old dear is in the wind's teeth and pulling hard against a frosty death." "Father knows the sky and the sea, and I think it is cruel hard of him to take such risks."

Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense. But at last, some three points off the weather bow, Ahab descried the spout again, and instantly from the three mast-heads three shrieks went up as if the tongues of fire had voiced it. "Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick! On deck there! brace sharper up; crowd her into the wind's eye.

Yes, she got on his back, and away he went from his house at a fine rate. And this time, too, she was not long on the way. When they got near the North Wind's house he was so wild and cross that cold puffs came from him. "Heigh, there, what do you want?" he bawled out to them ever so far off, so that it struck them with an icy shiver.

"It's an even thousand, if it's a yard. He don't look very big, can't hardly tell him from his cayuse; an' the wind's puffy. Why don't you dirty or rust this gun? The sun glitters all along the barrel. Well, here goes." "Missed by a mile," reproved Hopalong, who would have been stunned by such a thing as a hit under the circumstances, even if his good-shooting friend had made it. "Yes!

Why, the mill the mill as takes up so little room that it'll work inside a Stone Jug; and always goes better when the wind's low with people, than when it's high; acos then they can't get workmen. But come, said the young gentleman; 'you want grub, and you shall have it. I'm at low-water-mark myself only one bob and a magpie; but, as far as it goes, I'll fork out and stump.