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For a while the vessel and its cargo and the landed men and various business and conversations occupied them. But the freight for the mission once seen to, there was not much else to detain them. The barkentine was only a coaster like many others which had begun to fill the sea a little more of late years, and presently host and guest were riding homeward.
"Bought it out of the money I was saving so's we could get married. Cost me twenty-one dollars, and it's got puncture-proof tires and a real coaster brake. Just watch me ride it!" He sped off, rode free for a moment, threw the brake on and came to a sudden stop, then cut a figure eight over the paving.
Now, you don't think it likely that a man who could do anything is going to wear his breeches out sitting in the stinking hold of a rat-gutted, beetle-ridden, mouldy old coffin of a Chin China coaster. No, sir, such a man will look after himself and will look after his chums. You may lay to that! You hold on to him, and you may kiss the book that he'll haul you through."
In the first place it would do me harm, and in the next it would damage you all were it known you had one of Cochrane’s officers on board, for it would show at once that you were on your way to our fleet; whereas if it is supposed that you are merely an ordinary coaster you may be let off unharmed.”
One year that was ten years ago we were sued for our taxes. "'Nathaniel, said I, 'I will go to taking boarders. "Then he looked up to me and said oh, how noble and handsome he appeared to me: "'Mother, I will go to sea. "'Where? asked I, in surprise. "'In a coaster. "I turned white. How I felt! "'You and John can manage the place, he continued.
They were leaning on the rail, with their eyes turned toward the coast of Liberia, a gloomy green line against which the waves cast up fountains of foam as high as the cocoanut palms. As a subject of discussion, the coaster seemed anxious to avoid the Congo. "It was there," he said, pointing, "the Three Castles struck on the rocks. She was a total loss. So were her passengers," he added.
And at eight o'clock, as she was putting her kitchen in order, a tired driver appeared, clumsily engineering something through the narrow hall; a great coaster, its brave red and gold showing through the flimsy, snow-wet wrappings. "Teddy from Dad," Martie, bewildered, read on the card. Not to the excited child himself would it bring the joy it gave his mother. Poor Wallace always generous!
Damon, anxiously, and, such was the strain on him that he did not think to bless anything. "Is she all right, Tom, my lad?" "I think so. I'm speeding her to the limit. Faster than I ever did before, but I guess she'll do. She was built to stand a strain, and she's got to do it now!" Then there was silence again, as they slid along through the air like a coaster gliding down a steep descent.
Schmidt claimed to be a native of Hudson; his ancestors were Dutch, and Dutch was the sole language of his early days. He had been several years employed in the North River sloops, but for the last six months had been in a coaster.
The mate, with seven seamen, lowered a boat, and were escaping, when one of the passengers leaped on board, others in vain attempting to follow his example. The nine occupants of this boat were the following morning picked up by a coaster and carried into Shields, they, with those rescued by the Darlings, being the only persons who escaped out of sixty souls.
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