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Updated: June 11, 2025
"If I took c'rect bearin's, accordin' to your yarn the cargo is planted some distance from the coast?" "About forty miles." "An', while some of us goes after it, the yacht will stand off, an' on, waitin' orders, an' mebbe runnin' to Perim or Aden for letters." "You have grasped the situation, exactly, Captain Stump." The skipper shifted his cigar from one corner of his mouth to another.
However applicable or remote we may regard "the bearin's of this observation," the practical and most undesirable fact confronts us to-day that this crossing and mutual interference of the air and the food-passages is a fertile cause of pneumonia, inasmuch as the germs of this disease have their habitat in the mouth, and are from that lurking-place probably inhaled into the lung, as is also the case with the germs of several milder bronchitic and catarrhal affections.
They was Englishmen, leastways white men, and I may be wrong, but I bet my boots one on 'em was that there soft-speakin' villain Diggle." "Diggle!" exclaimed Desmond, springing up. "You must be mistaken, Bulger." "I may be wrong, sir, but I never remembers any time when I was." "What house did he go into?" "That I can't tell you, sir, not bein' sure o' my bearin's." "But you could point it out?"
You'd see 'em on the corners and in the post office and camped on the meetin'-house steps, arguin' and jawin'. Dan and Gaius was hurryin' around, moppin' their foreheads and lookin' worried. On Thursday there was all sorts of rumors afloat. Finally they all simmered down to one, and that one was what made me stop Stingy Gabe on the street and ask for my bearin's. "'Mr.
I want to ask if you'll come down to the house and see the boy; he's on the sick list." "What, Dusenberry?" "Yes, sir. He's pretty bad, I'm 'fraid, and the old lady's considerable upsot about him. If you just come down and kind of take an observation, so's we could sort of get our bearin's, as you might say, 'twould be a mighty help to all hands." "But where's your town physician?
Ralph, in the darkness, shook two big hands and heard whispered voices express themselves as glad to know him. "You see," continued Eri in a somewhat embarrassed fashion, "we're sort of layin' to, as yer might say, waitin' to git our bearin's. We ain't out of our heads; I tell you that, 'cause I know that's what it looks like." The bewildered Hazeltine laughed and said he was glad to hear it.
'Th' navy iv th' United States, he says, 'which is wan iv th' best, if not th' best, in th' wurruld, he says, 'was not, he says, 'intinded f'r sthreet fightin', he says. 'We'll stay here, he says, 'where we ar-re, he says, 'until, he says, 'we can equip th' ships with noomatic tire wheels, he says, 'an' ball bearin's, he says.
He's in so deep now he might as well jump into bankruptcy entirely an' put in a set o' piston rings, repack the pumps an' the stuffin-box, shim up the bearin's an' do a lot of little things the old Maggie's just hollerin' to have done." "To err is human; to forgive divine," Mr. Gibney orated.
I went t' the city that time t' see if I could get my bearin's at a distance; but when I come back I sorter lost the channel an' took agin t' driftin'. But this here Hills business has livened me up considerable. Did you ever think what I left Pa fur an' went t' the city, Janet?" "I thought you wanted to see the world, Mark." "Well, I didn't. Quinton is world 'nough fur me.
Then there was a lot of college fellers come an' camped out there all summer, once. I see 'em at it, two or three times. They was playin' base-ball, mostly. One of 'em had a map that he'd got outer some old book, an' he let me look at it. Accordin' to the bearin's of the island it might have been most anywhere between Fundy an' Key West, but it was good enough for this feller.
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