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In fact, toward nightfall of the third day it increased a trifle and something more. The boat's bow plunged under a crest, and we came through quarter-full of water. I bailed like a madman. The liability of shipping another such sea was enormously increased by the water that weighed the boat down and robbed it of its buoyancy. And another such sea meant the end.
"We can bail with them," putting into practice her own advice. They managed each to remove one of the low, rubber-soled shoes they wore. But these took up so small an amount of water, although they bailed vigorously, that Jennie began to chuckle: "Might as well try to dip the sea out with a pail, Nance! What a ridiculous position we're in!" But it was really more serious than that.
Several of the men, under instructions from the captain, dropped their oars and bailed it out with their caps or one or two small tin vessels that they had stored aboard. "Luckily the wind is blowing in the right direction," said the captain. "It comes out of the northeast, and that carries us toward the island.
His wife complained to the judge, who set round word to me this morning that she was in the lock-up." "In prison. An English lady!" "It is not the first time by any means. But I feel exactly as you do about it. I've bailed her out, and stopped his mouth with a fifty-franc note. Please keep this between ourselves." Mr. Heard was not pleased to learn this incident.
During Bradshaw's being President of the Council of State, it was my happiness to procure Captain Wharton his liberty, which when Bradshaw understood, said, 'I will be an enemy to Lilly, if ever he come before me. Sir Bolstrode Whitlock broke the ice first of all on behalf of Captain Wharton: after him the Committee, unto whom his offence had been committed, spoke for him, and said he might well be bailed or enlarged: I had spoken to the Committee the morning of his delivery, who thereupon were so civil unto him, especially Sir William Ermin of Lincolnshire, who at first wondered I appeared not against him; but upon my humble request, my long continued antagonist was enlarged and had his liberty.
The frail craft rocked terribly and once or twice she shipped some water that Lathrop instantly bailed out with a shallow earthen dish. Frank could almost hear the roar of the water as he gazed in silent fascination on the mysterious pictures of the smoke. And now the apprehension on the faces of the occupants of the canoe was agonizing to watch.
After the skiff had been righted and bailed out and the floating poles, oar, hats, and line tub gathered in, Ned saw the fin and swaying tail of a shark cutting the surface of the water near them, and calling on Dick to take the harpoon, began to pole the skiff toward the tiger of the sea. "Look out," shouted the captain. "That's a shark. You'll lose your iron if you strike him."
It won't hurt, that I know of." But they turned homeward nevertheless; and coming through the rock walls again, Jim said, "Sam, what was that battle the Doctor and you were reading about one day, and you told me all about it afterwards, you know?" "Malplacquet?" "No; something like that, though. Where they got bailed up among the rocks, you know, and fought till they were all killed."
He thought, indeed, that he should be able to keep awake all the night, if Harry should sleep on. He tried his best. He stood up, then he bailed, but as much less water came into the boat than before, he had but little to do in that way. He tried to sing and whistle, but the tunes were somewhat melancholy. The wind was certainly decreasing, and the sea going down.
He, however, would now have been very glad to get some more raw fish, but he could not reach the hamper, and he dared not leave the helm for an instant. There was a locker under where he sat. He had just bailed out the boat, when stooping down, he put his hand in, and, feeling round, discovered to his great joy a large piece of bread, the best part of a quartern loaf.
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