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Updated: May 10, 2025
Thus mention is made in the inscriptions of vessels of five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, and seventy-five gur capacity. A boat-builder's fee for building a vessel of sixty gur was fixed at two shekels of silver, and it was proportionately less for boats of smaller capacity.
That's a fine idea not! Four into two hundred doesn't go very many times, you know." "Not four," corrected Jack, "three. Sam is out of this. He's too much of a coward to have anything to do with it," he added, mimicking Sam's tone. The boat-builder's son reddened, but said nothing in reply to the bully's taunt. "Well, three, then," went on Hank; "that's not percentage enough for me.
They swung at a great speed along the narrow lanes, through two villages, and finally came to a standstill at the end of a long, narrow street. Arnold alighted and found the boat-builder's yard, with rows of boats for hire, a short distance along the front. He chose one and paddled off, glancing at his watch as he did so. It was barely a quarter of an hour since he had left Sabatini.
Ned was therefore surprised, as well as indignant, at the comments and the assumption of Donald; but a little reflection enabled him to see the boat-builder's motive, which was anything but vanity. He had some of this weakness himself, and felt that he had sailed the Sea Foam as well as any one could have done it, and was satisfied that the Skylark was really a faster yacht than his own.
Daddles stood on a ledge of the building a moment, and quietly pulled down the window. "It wasn't locked," he muttered, "so there'll be nothing to show how we got out." We were in a little yard at the rear of the jail. There was a large empty building, a barn, or a boat-builder's work-shop, on the next lot.
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