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"'Tis a man's duty to save his fellow an' he can," cried a gaunt fisherman, whose daughter was holding to his lips a bowl of conger-eel soup. "'Twas a good deed to send us forth to save a priest of Holy Church," cried a weazened boat-builder with a giant's arm, as he buried his face in a cup of sack, and plunged his hand into a fishwife's basket of limpets.
A day or two later the loft of the sail-maker, instead of the shed of the boat-builder, happened to be my lounging place, and thinking of this theme, now uppermost in my mind, I said to him: "Do you know a man around here by the name of Charlie Potter?" "Well, I might say that I do. He lived here for over fifteen years." "What sort of a man is he?"
Her father thought she was just a little more earnest in her uncalled-for defence of the young man than was necessary, and for the first time in his life it occurred to him that she was more interested in him than he wished her to be; for, as Donald was only the son of a poor boat-builder, such a strong friendship might be embarrassing in the future.
"I have money enough, sir, to pay my men, and I don't ask you for any money yet," replied the young boat-builder. "But I prefer to pay you as the work progresses." Donald did not object, and wrote the receipt.
Ida Pfeiffer was nothing if not adventurous, and whatever was to be dared, she straightway confronted. At her request, the guide turned boat-builder. He tore off some branches of plantain, bound them together with long tough grass, laid a few leaves upon them, launched them in the water, and then requested Madame Pfeiffer to embark.
Then he had felt a desire to spread his affluent wings, gone in for politics, and been appointed the squire or justice of the peace. In this position he was commissioned by the Marine Insurance Company of St. John's as its agent and inspector on Grande Mignon Island. In his less successful days he had been a boat-builder in Gloucester and Bath, and knew much of ship construction.
He admired the river, and had upon it a lovely rowing-boat, bought of the best boat-builder at Asnieres, and he used it often, but without finding river landscape a compensation for mountain scenery. In fear of a serious illness, we thought it better to gratify the longing, and devised a plan for a journey to Switzerland which would greatly reduce the expense without spoiling the pleasure.
Laud saw that it was no use to argue the point, and he held his peace, till the boat-builder had exhausted his rhetoric, and his stock of expletives. "What did you do it for, Laud?" asked he, at last, in a comparatively quiet tone. "I have told you a dozen times I didn't do it," replied the accused. "You talk so fast I can't get a word in edgeways."
"I am wet to the skin, and I want to put on dry clothes." Mr. Beardsley had proposed the place of meeting; and the boat-builder hastened home. In a few minutes he had put himself inside a dry suit of clothes.
Fishes and builds boats occasionally," put in the boat-builder. "Is that all? Nothing else?" "He preaches now and then not regularly," said Mr. Main. A-ha! I thought. A religionist! "A preacher is expected to set a good example," I said. "He ain't a regular preacher," said Mr. Main, rather quickly. "He's just kind of around in religious work." "What do you mean?"
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