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All assented to this, and Ayrault continued: "If apergy can annul gravitation, I do not see why it should not do more, for to annul it the repulsion of the earth that it produces must be as great as its attraction, unless we suppose gravitation for the time being to be suspended; but whether it is or not, does not affect the result in this case, for, after the apergetic repulsion is brought to the degree at which a body does not fall, any increase in the current's strength will cause it to rise, and in the case of electro-magnets we know that the attraction or repulsion has practically no limit.
If this weather keeps up I'll have to make snow-specs; there ain't another pair of smokes aboard." He made a shade of his curved hand as he gazed at the island. "Current's got us," he said, "an' we'll fetch up mighty close to the beach. It lies between those two ridges, close together, buttin' out from the volcano.
Rowed forty mile after a whale onct, 'n' caught the critter fairly rowed him down. Current's putty lively. Sh'd say 't was tearin' off 'bout five knots an hour. But guess I'll try it. Sh'd kinder like to feel water under me agin." "Captain, you shall handle the ship," smiled Thurstane. "I'll mention you by name in my report. Who next?" "Me," yelped Sweeny. "Can you row, Sweeny?"
Look, now, how the current's a-rushin', an' a-dancin', an' a-hummin'! Look at the white water 'roun' us! Look at the water behind us, an' hear the roarin' before us! Thar, she rocks, but never min' that! Wait till the water comes spillin' in! Then it will be time to use the paddles!" He burst once more into that irrepressible yell of defiance, and then he cried exultantly: "They slow up!
"It was easy for him," I said, rising to the defence. "Ho, ho," said Ump, "I wouldn't think you'd be throwin' bokays after that duckin'. I saw him. It wasn't so killin' easy." "It couldn't be so bad," said Jud; "the horse ain't a bit winded." "Laddiebuck," cried the hunchback, "you'll see before you get through. That current's bad." I turned around in the saddle.
"The current's mighty sharp." "I want to land here," said Lettie, decidedly. "It's the prettiest spot we've seen isn't it, girls?" Her friends agreed. Hiram, casting a quick eye over the ruffled surface of the river, saw that the man was right.
Only occasionally Ruth turned her head, for she needed her full attention upon the oar which she managed with such difficulty. "We gotter p'int up-stream," growled Uncle Jabez, after wringing his neck around again to spy out the landing near Lakeby's store. "Pesky current's kerried us too fur down." He gave a mighty pull to his own oar to rehead the boat.
He had no apprehension as to what each bend in the stream would reveal, for with the experienced riverman's intuition he looked for a change in the character of the shores to warn him of any interruption of the current's smooth flow. "Like old times, old fel'!" he said to his dumb partner. Job's tail thumped on the gunwale.
"It will be much easier floating down the middle of the Mississippi in a boat than it will be walking along the bank all the way." "It will shorely save the feet, an' give a feller time to think, while the current's doin' the work. It jest suits a lazy man like me." Again they broke simultaneously into a laugh that contained no sound, but which was full of mirth.
Tish's plan was simplicity itself. We were to steal his canoe. "Then we'll have him," she finished. "The current's too strong there for him to swim to the mainland." "He might try it and drown," Aggie objected. "Spy or no spy, he's somebody's son." "War is no time to be chicken-hearted," Tish replied. I confess I ate little all that day. At noon Mr. McDonald came and borrowed two eggs from us.
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