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But we had considerably more than a capful of wind, and there was a turgent ground-swell on, which made our boat—double-engined, and as trim and tidy a craft as ever sped across the span from shore to shore—behave rather lively, with sportive indulgence in a brisk game of pitch-and-toss that proved anything but comfortable to most of the passengers.
Using the board as a spade he scooped out a capful of coins gold, American, English and French, which the Southerner had buried in the northern wilderness. "It won't do to leave this place unprotected, and we must stop or we'll have more than we can carry. We must bring Putney back to help. It's my guess that there's a chest of money at the foot of each of these blazed trees."
He 's a good boy and all right, and not raised for the dirty life you and I are leading." "You too, eh!" the Frenchman shrieked, beside himself with rage. "Den I fix you, you rat!" He made a rush for the boy, but 'Frisco Kid led him a lively chase from cockpit to bowsprit and back again. A sharp capful of wind arriving just then, French Pete abandoned the one chase for the other.
But, as I have said, at half-past three in the afternoon, the breeze began to sit in dark curls upon the water, and there was evidence enough in the haziness in the west, and in the loom of the shoulders of vapour in the dark-blue obscure there, to warrant a sackful for this capful presently. "I reckon," says the captain to me, after looking into the west, "that we'd best knock off now.
He said he thought they had already seen the worst of the weather, and wondered that his men had raised such a hubbub about a capful of wind. Mention being made of the Flying Dutchman, the captain laughed. He said, "he would like very much to see any vessel carrying topgallant-sails in such a night, for it would be a sight worth looking at."
Well, sir, one day we sighted a Spanish caravel very rich ladened with a prodigious quantity of plate, but were without so much as a capful of wind to fetch us up with her.
"There is no breeze to take us anywhere." "Well, what will happen to us, then? Shall we stay here forever?" "There ought to be a breeze in two or three days," said Kenneth Harper, who could not resist the temptation to chaff this ill-tempered young person. "Say by Tuesday or Wednesday, I should think a capful of wind might puff up in some direction."
Hazel was startled when the man turned his front face to him with a jolly, genial air and said, "Well, sir, the truth is, we seamen don't want passengers aboard ships of this class; they get in our way whenever it blows a capful. However, since you are here, make yourself as comfortable as you can." "There, that is enough palaver," said the captain, in his offensive way.
With a burst of indignation, he rushed out, and caught little Spinks in the act of making off with his second capful of apples. "`What! Spinks? I should not have expected this of you, said Tom, releasing my little victim. "`I didn't want to do it, whimpered Spinks; `but I couldn't help it. "`Yes, yes; I understand. Who was it that set you on? "`Please, I don't want to tell.
"The gale seems to have knocked down all our fellow passengers and depopulated our saloon," cried Ishmael, soaring up to the sky with his side of the table. "Yes, sir, yes, sir; a lot of land-lubbers, sir; a lot of lubbers, sir! Gale? Nothing but a capful of wind, sir! Nothing but a capful of wind!" roared the captain, sinking down to the abyss on his side of the table.
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