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Nothing more was said till the woman got off the barge, climbed the bank, and came across the bridge. She hesitated, looking at the three backs of the children, then she said, "Ahem." Peter stayed as he was, but the girls looked round. "You mustn't take no notice of my Bill," said the woman; "'is bark's worse'n 'is bite. Some of the kids down Farley way is fair terrors.
Youth! youth! beautiful youth! who, at times, does not look back to it with joyful wonder, long for it with passionate regret for its inexperience and weakness! its illusions and romance! its fond trust, and April smiles and tears! Who does not long to laugh again, and, leaning over the bark's side, play with the foaming waves again, as in the old days!
It was evident that the sailors had no appreciation of the real happening. They did not know that they were cut off from the old earth by thousands of miles of space. "Your bark's name is Orion, then?" queried the professor. "Aye, aye, sir," said the boat-steerer. "The Orion, out o' New Bedford; the only whaler under sail in these seas, I reckon.
Instead of 'STOP THIEF! on his linen, he prints 'STOLEN FROM Bark's! Now, Bark, we are going up-stairs! No, you ain't! YOU refuse admission to the Police, do you, Bark? Yes, I do! I refuse it to all the adjective police, and to all the adjective substantives. If the adjective coves in the kitchen was men, they'd come up now, and do for you!
"Na, na," said Jenny, with a laugh of affected heartiness, "never mind me, lass a' the warld kens my bark's waur than my bite if ye had had an appointment wi' the Laird, ye might hae tauld me I am nae uncivil person gang your ways in by, hinny," and she opened the door of the house with a master-key.
"Na, na," said Jenny, with a laugh of affected heartiness, "never mind me, lass a' the warld kens my bark's waur than my bite if ye had had an appointment wi' the Laird, ye might hae tauld me I am nae uncivil person gang your ways in by, hinny," and she opened the door of the house with a master-key.
Long and capacious as a shipwright forms Some bark's broad bottom to outride the storms, So large he built the raft; then ribbed it strong From space to space, and nailed the planks along. Thy loom, Calypso, for the future sails Supplied the cloth, capacious of the gales. With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, And, rolled on levers, launched her on the deep."
The bark's pumps were manned and worked under water, bailing-pumps square tubes with one valve were made and plunged up and down in each hatch, whips were rigged, and buckets rose and fell until the obstructing cargo confined the work to the bark's pumps.
Leading them was the great Dragon the same that had sailed to Dumbarton commanded by Earl Kenric himself, who stood on the poop clothed in armour of iron network and with the sword of Somerled at his side, and wearing his shining brass helm crested with gold wings. The lion banner of Scotland, woven in silk, fluttered at his bark's masthead.
"What's dad been doing to you?" she asked. "Scare you? His bark's a heap sight worse than his bite." "He he's good," said Ruth, tearfully. "He was trying to be good to me.... I'm just upset that's all. I'll be all right in a moment." But she was not all right in a moment. Her sobs increased.
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