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But the long boathook lay at my feet along the bulwark, and, almost instinctively, I caught it up with one hand, whilst setting the lamp down with the other, ran to the stern and made a wild grab in the dark towards where I thought she would be.
"Yes, he's sawing at the cable with his knife." "And it's blunt as hoop iron," groaned Tom. "They're alongside. It's all over. Was there ever such luck?" "Cut, you beggar, cut!" yelled Tom Fillot. "Too late too late!" said Mark bitterly, as he saw Dance still hacking at the cable, and the boat pulled alongside, while the bow man threw in his oar, and seized a boathook as he rose in his place.
"Look at that!" cried Jem. "Why, I must have driven it right into him. How are we to get it back?" "Watch it," said Don, excitedly. "It will come out and float directly." Don's prophecy did not come to pass, for as they watched, they saw about a foot of the boathook shaft stand sloping out of the water, and go here and there in a curious manner. "Let's row after it," suggested Don.
"Some on you's took it for a game, and Lufftenant Staples ain't the man to stand no larks. `Where's that there boathook, Joe Dance? he says. `Produce it 'twonce, sir, or `Ay, ay, sir. Starn all it is. Where are you coming? Pull. Starboard there On Portsmouth hard in Portsmouth town. Three cheers, my merry lads Now then, pull pull hard Ay, ay, sir Now all together, my lads!"
"All right; but I want to get a little farther into the woods here, and I can get around the bushes ahead of her," replied the captain, who had been studying up a course by which he could go a considerable distance farther inland. He backed the boat, and then went ahead very slowly, with Clingman feeling of the bottom with the boathook.
"We'll all watch for him," said the captain. Paddy was not with us the next summer; but Bill was, and so was Ace, with whom I was now on the best of terms. We all agreed to keep our eyes peeled for a hunchback with a black beard. Bill said he'd spear him with a boathook as soon as he hove in sight for fear he'd get away.
He glanced at the approaching launch, and reached uncertainly for the boathook. Even his subtle resources were almost at an end. Yet it did not seem to occur to him to yield. And then, as for the hundredth time he laid his hands on the motor, he uttered a cry. It was plain to Orme that the cause of the supposed breakdown had been discovered. But was there time for the Japanese to get away?
So we stopped and investigated with a boathook. There was a lot of weed and stuff fouling us. We were playing about with it mit boathook for nearly a quarter-of-an-hour, and suddenly old Mouldy Jakes put up his head and sniffed about a bit and muttered 'Baccy." "He's got a nose like a hawk," said the Midshipman of that officer's Division with a tinge of pride in his voice.
This is not the first cutter, but one of the schooner's boats. Your boathook is not here." "Do you hear, all on you? I want my hitcher. Some on you's been and hidden it for a lark. Give it here." "Are you deaf, Dance?" cried Mark, angrily. "How dare you, sir! Sit down." "I know," continued the man, who was tumbling about forward.
They reached the bows of the boat, and tumbled headlong in; and, at the same moment Paul Lizard, who had seized a boathook, shoved her off; the men got out their oars, and pulled her head round. "Now give way, lads, for your lives," cried Shafto. The water around them became violently agitated, and the huge ice-rock swayed to and fro. Shafto cast an anxious look behind him.
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