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"Yeah, come over and see it." "We talked about Friendship sloops," Oliver said, after a swallow of Guinness. "They're big on boats at Pilgrim Atlantic." "Boats!" George shook his head wonderingly. "Actually, I like them," Oliver said, "I wouldn't mind trying to make one some day. There was a dinghy that belonged to a neighbor of ours where I grew up. It was very light on the water.
"You must be going to be married, captain," Sam heard the teller remark jocularly. "Not yet a while," the captain laughed back. "That ther motor uv mine that I left ter be fixed up is goin' ter cost me fifty dollars, and the other seventy-five I'm calculating ter keep on hand in my safe fer a while. I'm kind uv figgerin' on gettin' a new dinghy my old one is just plum full uv holes.
To-night he ran the boat into the coarse and wiry grass where Septimus Marvin's own dinghy lay, half hidden by the reeds, and he stumbled ashore clutching at the dewy grass as he climbed the side of the dyke. He went toward the turf-shelter half despondently, and then stopped short a few yards away from it. For Miriam was there. He thought she was alone, and paused to make sure before he spoke.
The oars were kept in a shed behind the cottage of the waterman, which stood only a short distance back upon the beach: and these I fetched, as I had often done before, without the necessity of asking leave from any one. I now entered the dinghy, and having adjusted the thole pins and placed my oars on the rowlocks, I took my seat and pushed off from the shore.
Indeed, it was so diminutive, that it often kept up the two boys that belonged to it from the fresh as well as the salt water, they clapping it over their heads, by way of an umbrella, whenever the clouds poured down a libation too liberal. To those curious in philology I convey the information, that in the word dinghy, the g was pronounced hard.
"But we cannot embark here!" Madame Piriac complained. "Oh, yes!" said Audrey. "You see those white stones? ... It's quite easy." When the dinghy had done about half the journey Madame Piriac murmured: "By the way, who are you, precisely, for the present? It would be prudent to decide, darling." Audrey hesitated an instant. "Who am I? ... Oh! I see. Well, I'd better keep on being Mrs.
"And remember to go far enough out not to hit the dinghy." "Good." Madden stared up into the mysterious vessel, caught the ladder and swung himself silently onto the rungs. Caradoc mounted close behind him. They had mounted only two or three steps, when a sudden terrific report thundered above their heads. It was so unexpected, so violent, that the two boys almost tumbled into the sea.
"No, no if any go, all shall go!" exclaimed the rest, rushing down to the water; but, so blind was the eagerness of the mass that these were precipitated headlong into the sea, and would have become food for the ground sharks had not Linton and his companions hauled them into the dinghy.
"The doctor says I mustn't have anything more solid than a lightly-boiled shoe-lace the last thing at night." "After all, there's always the dinghy," said Archie. "If we put in a tin of corned beef and a compass and a keg of gunpowder, somebody might easily row in and post the letters. Personally, as captain, I must stick to my ship." "There's another way I've just thought of," I said.
Us'll find 'em, if us has to break our fine new bowsprit so close as Crump's bull's horn!" "Good egg!" quoth Moorshed, and brought his hand down on the wide shoulders with the smack of a beaver's tail. "Us'll go look for they by hand. Us'll give they something to play upon; an' do 'ee deal with them faithfully, an' may the Lard have mercy on your sowls! Amen. Put I in dinghy again."
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