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He turned down the Artichoke road and went straight to Uncle Coffin's. "I've come to take you and Aunt Salomy to the show," I said, lifted out and knocked hither and thither by my friend in his tender ecstasy. "Cruisin' out on the high seas without no rudder, you you young spark, you!" he cried delightedly.
"Well, we was cruisin' around the Guinea coast, and one day I went on shore to look about and got separated from the other fellows, and all to once got so tangled up in the jungle that I didn't know which way to go nor nothing." "That's interesting," said Percival.
Is there anything he ain't got?" "He hasn't got me not yet. If he wants to see me he may. I expect to be at home for the next day or two." "You don't mean you expect a millionaire like him to come cruisin' after YOU! Well, by time! I think I see him!" "When you do, let me know," I said. "I should like to be prepared." "Well, by time!" said Lute, by way of summing up. I ate dinner with Dorinda.
It's about time Prayerful Jones was shut of lettin' loose his bums and lunatics on us folks with property." "No harm," said Vanderzee, soothingly. "I say it is harm! I'm hailed whurever I go about this business of the old un's island, Van! Just 'cause I've got a schooner, it's Jarrow, Jarrow, Jarrow! I'd look fine and smart cruisin' round for a P. D. island, wouldn't I? Now tell me that?"
But I've heerd lately that she 's got up and went?" "I don't know," I murmured. "Yes; Nason was tellin' me how 't, the last time he went cruisin', he met a man 't 'd jest come from Jaffy, 't told him how 't Lot's wife had got up and went. "Wal, I was glad to hear on't. Moderation 's a virtu', even in all things.
"Because ye'll have a big stretch to cover as Guard, an' there'll be no time for ye cruisin'. You keep the trees from burnin' up so as we can mark them for cuttin' down." "It always seems a shame," said Wilbur, "to have to cut down these trees.
Well, you have them both, anyhow, only fore an' aft, as I said before. Well, then comes his back with a hollow so, for people to sit in when they go cruisin' about on shore; then here's his legs somethin' like that, the fore ones straight an' the aft ones crooked." "Has he only two legs," asked Sally, in surprise, "one before an' one behind?"
"So, young man," he said, turning sternly to Jeff, "you've bin cruisin' after my little girl without leave." "I am guilty, Captain Millet," said Jeff humbly, "but not intentionally so.
"When you're at sea you've jest got to git used to seein' things a good ways off and knowin' 'em when you see 'em, too." "I remember, one time," remarked Mrs. Snow, "that my brother Nathan he's dead now was bound home from Hong Kong fust mate on the bark Di'mond King. 'Twas the time of the war and the Alabama was cruisin' 'round, lookin' out for our ships.
That puts him in th' proper position to inspect armor plate f'r th' imminent Carnegie, an' insthruct admirals that's been cruisin' an' fightin' an' dhrinkin' mint juleps f'r thirty years. He must know th' difference bechune silo an' insilage, how to wean a bull calf, an' th' best way to cure a spavin. If he has that information, he is fixed f'r th' job.
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