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"Well, she called 'Kitty, kitty, kitty! and sure enough the kitty came, and when he came in the door he gave a big yawl that didn't sound unlike what they had heard. "'There, sister, here he is; you see it was the cat, says Mrs. Bird. 'Poor kitty! "But Mrs. Dennison she eyed the cat, and she give a great screech. "'What's that? What's that? says she. "'What's what? says Mrs.
He made gestures as if to say that they would see. Then having fastened the "Baleine" to the yawl, he towed her back. And an unlooked-for spectacle stunned Coqueville. In the bottom of the bark, the three men Rouget, Delphin, Fouasse were beatifically stretched out on their backs, snoring, with fists clenched, dead drunk.
He also had a plan for changing her from a cutter into a yawl, and Meldon was quite ready to argue out the points of advantage and disadvantage in each rig. It was half-past eleven o'clock before they parted for the night, and even then they had not decided where to go next day. It was the evening of the second day of the Spindrift's cruise.
Again the canvas flapped, and the trampling of feet was heard on the lugger's deck; then she came sweeping into the wind, within fifty feet of the yawl. Raoul watched the movement; and by the time her way was nearly lost, he was alongside, and had caught a rope. At the next instant, he was on board her. Raoul trod the deck of his lugger again with the pride of a monarch as he ascends his throne.
She was only a big gulf yawl, which a man and a boy could manage at a pinch, with old-fashioned high bulwarks, but lying clean in the water. She had a tolerable record for speed, and for other things so important that they were now and again considered by the Government at Quebec. She was called the Ninety-Nine.
Above this island we pursued a general West-South-West direction; but to our great mortification there was water for the yawl only four miles further. In the gig I was able to ascend nearly two miles higher in a South-West by South direction.
With eight of his men in a small boat, a ship's yawl, he skirted the coast from Penobscot Bay to Cape Cod, keeping his eye open. This keeping his eye open was a peculiarity of the little captain; possibly a family trait.
Spike felt a chill at his heart when he looked about him and saw the condition of the yawl. So crowded were the stern-sheets into which he had descended, that it was with difficulty he found room to place his feet; it being his intention to steer, Jack was ordered to get into the eyes of the boat, in order to give him a seat.
I'll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we'll drink the young Laird's health in a bowl that would swim the collector's yawl. So saying, he mounted his horse and galloped off.
Each and all met the common fate so much the sooner, from the manner in which they impeded their own efforts. The yawl was now relieved from about five hundred pounds of the weight it had carried Simon weighing two hundred alone, and the youngish seaman being large and full.
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