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Updated: June 11, 2025
Now I want to get my bearin's. Mebbe you can put me right. How did you learn all this you've ben talkin'?" "By going to school, I fancy, and by studying," she answered. "I went to school when I was a kid," he began to object. "Yes; but I mean high school, and lectures, and the university." "You've gone to the university?" he demanded in frank amazement.
"So I tramped it to Hartford that night, got a lodgin' with a first cousin I had there, worked my passage to Boston in a coaster, and after hangin' about Long Wharf day in and day out for a week, I was driv' to ship myself aboard of a whaler, the Lowisy Miles, Twist, cap'en; and I writ from there to Hetty, so't she could know my bearin's so fur, and tell my father.
"See here, my boy," said Rogers, quickly, a new gentleness in look and tone, "you hain't thought uv this thing in all its bearin's." "Yes, I have. I've thought of nothing else for months," Abner responded gloomily. "No, thah's one p'int you've ovahlooked," pursued the older man.
"Maybe," said Dilly, nodding and tying her last bundle of papers. "But I don't know. I never had quite such feelin's before. It's the nearest to bein' afraid of anything I've come acrost. I guess I shall have to run out into the lot an' take my bearin's." Jethro got up, put his hands in his pockets, and walked about the room.
"What brings her in here, that's what I'm askin'." "Belike," said I, scrambling over the gunwale, "the man has lost his bearings in this fog, and mistakes Helford for Falmouth entrance." "Lost his bearin's! Jo Pomery lost his bearin's!" Billy regarded me between pity and reproach.
Rokens glanced round at the rocks beside which their hut had found shelter, and at the reef where the ship had been wrecked, in order to find the "bearin's o' the spot," as he expressed it. Then walking a few yards to one side, he struck his foot on the sand and said, "It should be hereabouts."
The Judge's horse was a new one, not used to the roads, Ezra's near-sighted, and I couldn't use my glasses 'count of the rain. Let alone that, 'twas darker'n the fore-hold of Noah's ark. Ho, ho! Sometimes we was in the ruts and sometimes we was in the bushes. I told Ez we'd ought to have fetched along a dipsy lead, then maybe we could get our bearin's by soundin's.
Here are we, regularly boxin' the compass, our jibboom pointin' first this way, then that, and then t'other, while that ship haven't veered nothin' to speak of all the time that I've been on deck; she've pointed steady to the south'ard ever since I first set eyes on her, and it seems to me that she've altered her bearin's a bit.
"And haven't you seen him boil the corn after it was ground into meal?" "Yes, suh. They cook it up that way for the hounds. Thar's a feller up our way that's got mo' than a hundred hounds. They call him hound poor." Rap, rap, rap! "Let me tell you about this feller, Jedge. It may have some bearin's on the matter in hand.
"Just so, cap'n; take our bearin's an' lay our course," assented Hockins. They soon reached the spot, and found the view from it unexpectedly beautiful. The whole landscape was clothed with tropical verdure.
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