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He had a long start 'fore Jonadab and me woke up enough to think of chasing him. But we woke up fin'lly, and the way we flew round that catboat was a caution. I laid into them halyards, and I had the mainsail up to the peak afore Jonadab got the anchor clear of the bottom. Then I jumped to the tiller, and the Patience M. took after that skiff like a pup after a tomcat.
And I'll buy a catboat and a rowboat and a shotgun and a yellow dog. I've got money enough to do it. And I'll smell the salt wind all day when it blows from the sea and the pine odor when it blows from the land. And, of course, I'll write plays until I have a trunk full of 'em on hand. "And the next thing and the biggest thing I'll do will be to buy that duck-farm next door.
Some people might not consider it restful to rise at four every weekday morning and sail in a catboat twelve miles out to sea and haul a wet cod line for hours, not to mention the sail home and the cleaning and barreling of the catch. Captain Eri did that. Captain Perez was what he called "stevedore" that is, general caretaker during the owner's absence, at Mr.
"And did he bring her the child?" "Hold on! let me tell the story just as the events happened. I told you it was in the winter when the yacht hove to in the bay; well, one bitter and blustering night about three days after the arrival of the yacht, I was over on the mainland having a carouse, and toward morning took the chances of crossing the bay in a catboat to my home.
More innocent, in fact, for that little wagwings knows where he ought not to go, and he goes there all the same." Captain Asher was still at the boat, making some practical suggestions to her owner; who, being not yet forty, had many things to learn about the sails and rigging of a catboat. "Mr.
The lightkeeper, it appeared, had an auxiliary engine in a catboat which he owned and could let me have a sufficient supply of gasolene to fill the Comfort's tank. When this was done and it took a long time, for Joshua insisted upon helping and he was provokingly slow I returned to the sitting room and asked Mrs. Atwood to call Miss Colton.
"You want these four boys, Skipper?" demanded the old fisherman. "That's what I do," said Ensign MacMasters. Then to the chums: "Come aboard, boys; I've news for you." "They been using my catboat," said Captain Bridger. "All right, Phil Morgan. You can go aboard. I'll take charge of the Sue. Got some right nice lookin' bass, ain't you?" "But you won't take charge of them!" Torry exclaimed.
"Mine," he interrupted, filling his pipe from my tobacco pouch, "being accustomed to a breakfast, not a gorge, is abnormal but satisfactory, thank you quite satisfactory." "That," said I, "we will discuss later, when I have you out back of the bar in my catboat. Judging from present indications there will be some sea-running.
Our enemy's boat is not so large it's not much more than a catboat but there are only four of us, as the mice don't count, and I suppose there must be at least a dozen of the pirates." The False Hare smiled a sickly sort of smile. "And such nice ones," he murmured. "Such gentle, well-behaved, well-brought-up, polite pirates! Just the sort your dear parents would like to have you meet.
"I've got my eye on him; he's a Cape Cod man, and he's not so very old either. When he was a boy people went about in ships with sails, and even after he grew up Cap'n Jim was a great feller to manage a catboat; for things has moved slower on the Cape than in many parts of the country."
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