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"She is gaining still!" cried Gus, delighted. "Not much; it is a pretty even thing," added Donald. "No matter; we beat her, and I don't care if it's only half an inch in a mile." "But the Christabel is leading us all. She is sure of all the first prizes." "Not a bit of it. She has to reef when there's a capful of wind. In a calm she will beat us, but when it blows we shall wax her all to pieces."
We ran by them, past the flag-ship, for the purpose of bringing up, when we were hailed with "What! Captain Cranley, are you afraid of a capful of wind? There's nothing to hurt you now outside; so go to sea again without bringing up." These words stung our old captain to the quick.
Those two I got to my raft with the arms. And now I thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I should get to shore with them, having neither sail, oar, nor rudder; and the least capful of wind would have overset all my navigation.
"Blast the ship!" cried the discomfited old man very unnecessarily, since there was "blast" enough, and to spare. "'Only a capful of wind, captain! 'Only a capful of wind," said Ishmael, in a grave, matter-of-fact way, as he carefully assisted the veteran to rise. "Humph! humph! humph! I might have known you would have said that. Ha! glad none of the women are here to see me!
We were now upon the borders of Bohemia, and saw glaring on the wall of a frontier hostelry, “Willkommen zu Mähren”—“Welcome to Moravia.” We sealed the welcome by a sumptuous breakfast of sausages and beer in the frontier town of Zwittau—a pleasant place, with a spacious colonnaded market-square—and finished our meal on a green bank on the outskirts of the town, with a heap of sweet blackberries, of which we had purchased a capful for six kreutzers shein.
So because he had a capful of moonshine in his head, and because the moonbeams were laying their white hands on his hair, he chose the weak, shrivelled old man, who crouched and clung to him, imploring not to be let go.
We went jumpin' an' slidin' ahead, tilted away over on one side, but Fatty never turned a hair; he said it was nothin' but a capful o' wind, an' he sat in the back end o' the boat with a little stick in his hand, hummin' tunes an' havin' the time of his life; but give me a bunch of blizzard-scared long-horns for mine. I never knowed a boat was so human.
I reckon I'll have a rare capful o' larks by th' sky falling, first." "The sky will fall some day, my son," said the voice of Father Thomas, behind Dan. His soft rap had been unheard through Dan's bass voice, and he had entered unperceived. "Well, Father, you should know the rights on't," was Dan's answer, with a pull at his hair.
The ship was as stiff and steady as though she still remained on her cradles in the Isle of Dogs, and her course was as calm and true as though she were on a lake without a capful of wind. It is said that at one portion of the voyage she steamed nineteen miles an hour. The explosion. All went well till the ship had passed Folkestone.
Granted a capful of wind on his beam, a fleet keel under foot, and a complacent skipper aft, the flight direct was perhaps the means of escape the sailor loved above all others.
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