United States or Liechtenstein ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Why, ye see, as I've telt ye, I'm booked to ship wi' the black `sheik' I've heerd them ca' him. Well, from what I ha'e seed and heerd there's nae doot they're gaein' to separate an' tak different roads. I didna ken muckle o' what they saved, but I could mak oot two words I ha'e often heerd while cruisin' in the Gulf o' Guinea.
If you and I, just cruisin' this way across the broadside of creation, run across a man that knew Cousin Philander thirty-nine years ago, isn't it just as reasonable to suppose we'll meet a child who was born twenty-one years ago? I should say 'twas! Hosy, I've had a presentiment about this cruise of ours: We're SENT on it; that's what I think we're sent. Oh, you can laugh! You'll see by and by.
It's because I can't bear to have you just a friend. Either you must be more'n that, or or I'll have to go somewheres else. I realized that when I was in Washin'ton and cruisin' to California and back. I've either got to take Bos'n and go away for good, or or " She would not help him. She would not speak. "You see?" he groaned. "You see, Phoebe, what an old fool I am.
But their speech was blunt and the three topics of conversation most popular were the fish harvest, clamming, and summer boarders. "Land sakes! is that you, Em'line Scudder? What sent you cruisin' in these waters? I thought you never got away from the Haven." "Good-day, Mrs. Eldredge. You're fairin' well? I just had to come over to Littlebridge for some fixin's.
I cal'lated you city folks was late sleepers, and I wouldn't want to make any trouble, so I found a little eatin' house down below here a ways and had a cup of coffee and some bread and butter and mush. Then I went cruisin' round in Central Park a spell. This is Central Park over across here, ain't it?" "Yes." The girl was too astonished to say more. "I thought 'twas.
This same somebody whispers that I know so much about ducks that I quack when I talk, and he comes cruisin' over in the buzz cart to hire me for guide. And would you b'lieve it? it turns out that he's cal'latin' to make his duckin' v'yage in that very cart. I was for makin' the trip in a boat, like a sensible man, but he wouldn't hear of it.
"'Tis a disappointment for all of us, this tangle with Rackham's crew, but why any worse for you?" "I can't tell it all, Peter, but my life is forfeit once they lay hands on me." "What tarradiddle is this? As I remember it in the Revenge, when all hands of us were cruisin' together, ye had no mortal enemies." "It happened in the Plymouth Adventure," answered Joe.
They wants to sell she bad, because they has no room to stow she on deck, and in the rough sea that were runnin' they couldn't tow she. I buys she for thirty dollars!" "That was cheap, I should think," said Charley. "'Twere, now!" and there was pride in Skipper Zeb's voice. "I'll tell you how 'twere. We needs a trap boat wonderful bad for our cruisin', and I says to Mrs.
"Why, boy," he said at length, "seems to me as if you'd as good cause to suspec' me of drinkin' as I have to suspec' you, 'cause we're both here, d'ye see? Howsever, I've been cruisin' after the same craft, an' so we've met, d'ye see, an' that's nat'ral, so it is."
There must be some strange, subtle sympathy between drunkards, for, at the very time these two men expressed their wish, the master of the Evening Star said to Gunter, "Get out the boat. I'll go cruisin'." It must not be supposed that by this he meant to declare his intention of going off on a lengthened voyage in his little boat.
Word Of The Day