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Updated: May 6, 2025
'Good Heaven! said Uncle Sol, starting back against his favourite compass-case. 'It can't be! Well, I 'No, nor anybody else, said Walter, anticipating the rest. 'Nobody would, nobody could, you know. Here! just help me lift the little sofa near the fire, will you, Uncle Sol take care of the plates cut some dinner for her, will you, Uncle throw those shoes under the grate.
The seams of the well-scrubbed deck were sticky with melted pitch, and the brass plate of the compass-case sparkled in the sun like a jewel.
Colombo opened the compass-case, and drew a pot of paint and a brush toward him. The boy watched breathlessly while the captain painted over the marks of the compass with thick white paint, and then on top of that drew in new lines and figures in black. He was changing the compass completely. When the work was done Christopher bore the case back to its box as secretly as he had taken it.
I believe, said Mr Gills, blowing the dust off the glass top of a compass-case, 'that you don't point more direct and due to the back parlour than the boy's inclination does after all. And the parlour couldn't bear straighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either way. 'Halloa, Uncle Sol! 'Halloa, my boy! cried the Instrument-maker, turning briskly round.
He's learned something, or found something useful to him there, just as we did. That is certain, since he is not the type of man to do anything without a purpose. Uncle Dudley is on his trail and will be able to locate him pretty soon." "When will you get that new compass-case exhausted to a skillionth of a whillimeter or something, whatever it is?
She ran hither and thither, asked questions, invented answers, laughed, sang, gambolled, peered into the compass-case, felt in the pockets of the man at the helm, put her tiny hand into the big palm of the officer of the watch, even ran down to the quarter-deck and pulled the coat-tails of the sentry on duty.
The light illuminated his face for an instant, and then went out, leaving the night blacker than before. "That's south," he announced, snapping the compass-case shut, "and this blame wind is southeast; that ought to keep us fairly straight." "The ponies will do that; they'll keep where the travelling is good. Shift this bag back of your saddle, Dan.
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