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O'er the barge that now drew nearer countless virgin lilies wept, Telling that some white-souled maiden in the snowy bower slept. Dumb he stood, and gazed in terror on the shroud and lilies sweet, And a dread foreboding filled him, and his heart forgot to beat; And in silence, Deathlike silence, Fell he at the boatman's feet.
He went down every day to the wharf and superintended the loading of the scows, and at the end of ten days he resumed his boatman's clothes and took his place on one of the scows. Hiram accompanied him, with eight negroes, two for each flat. A tug took them in tow, and they started up the river. Mr.
"Wait a minute!" said Aunt Isabel to the boatman's son, who had made ready his net and was just about to go up on the baklad to take out the fish from the little enclosure at the end of the weir. "We must have everything ready, so that the fish may pass directly from the water to the pot."
"Mr Hope will give you satisfaction: he must be a better judge than any of us." "Oh, yes; but we cannot expect him to have eyes for any person but one, at present, you know." "Oh, so he is going to marry Deborah Giles, after all?" "Deborah Giles!" "Yes; was he not said to be engaged to her, some time ago?" "Deborah Giles! the boatman's daughter!
His gaze wandered from a shadowy barge crawling along in mid-channel to the cheery red blind of Boatman's Arms, and then to the road in search of Captain Barber, for whom he had been enquiring since the morning. A stout lady stricken in years sat on a seat overlooking the river, and the mariner, with a courteous salutation, besought her assistance. "I've been looking for him myself," said Mrs.
"Signorino Marchesino, I do when I have any soldi to buy them with." "Take these." The Marchesino emptied one side of his cigarette case into the boatman's hand, called a hired carriage, and drove off towards the Villa the horse going at a frantic trot, while the coachman, holding a rein in each hand, ejaculated, "A ah!" every ten seconds, in a voice that was fiercely hortatory.
The men threw stones at it, and so sank it, whereupon they turned, and all five departed as they had come. Such is the boatman's story, as related in the Diarium of Burchard.
He then went to Port Philip, and was employed in lightering cargo up the Yarra, and in ferrying between Williamstown and the beach now called Port Melbourne. He took out the first boatman's licence issued, and has the brass badge, No. 1, still.
On seeing us looking at him, he raised the usual boatman's cry, "Barca, barca, Signori, per Lussin Grande," and burst into a peal of laughter, in which we joined.
They would soon find that he was gone. "Oh, I must be across, sir!" he cried. "Can ye na take me free? I be little and not heavy; and I will help the gentleman with his basket." The boatman's only reply was to drop his hook and push off with the oar.
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