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"Here is the door," said Charlie, "that lets folks into the dock." "But how do you get the thing open?" asked Will, flashing the light of his lantern upon the door. "I will open it," said Aunt Stanshy, who now appeared, and already decided that the door might be consistently opened for a good deed's sake.
In my boyhood a great feature in Liverpool was the annual procession of one or other of the local societies. The great Irish and Catholic procession, of which the Hibernians formed the largest contingent, was, of course, on St. Patrick's Day. A considerable portion of the processionists were dock labourers; a fine body of men, who were at this time, as I have already said, mostly Irish.
We have our own dockers to start it from dock we have our own stokers, our own engineers we have our own pilots we have all! And it will be easy to steer that boat for we have made the harbor empty we shall have the whole place to ourselves! Some day maybe soon we have all the boats in the world for ourselves and we shall be free! All battle boats we shall sink in the sea we stop all wars!
"Wait till you are kicked yourself and then cry out," was the answer. Mr Henley could make no reply to this remark, but walked quietly away. He took good care, however, that while he was on dock none of his inferiors should bully anybody; and I, to the best of my power, assisted him. I soon found that I had made mortal enemies of Sills and Broom, who had never liked me.
There was abundant evidence in the form of noises, strange and discordant, that many workers were busy on dock and riverside, but the streets through which our course lay were almost empty. Sometimes a furtive shadow would move out of some black gully and fade into a dimly seen doorway in a manner peculiarly unpleasant and Asiatic. But we met no palpable pedestrian throughout the journey.
'Here's a letter come for your mother, little Meg, said Mr Grigg, seizing it eagerly, 'I'll read it to you if you like. 'Oh no, thank you, sir, answered Meg quickly; 'father's coming home, and he'll read it to-morrow morning. His ship's in the river, and it'll be in dock to-night for certain. So he'll be home to-morrow.
They arranged themselves there in proper order, with Captain Willoughby, the Mayor, at the head, or rather almost at the head, for of course Lawyer Ed was a few steps in advance of him. The dock was a new and important landing place. There was a big distinction between the dock and the wharf.
In that case Richard was fully determined that he would glut no more the curiosity of the crowd. He would never stand in the prisoner's dock, or be consigned again to stone walls. The gossips should have a dead man's face to gaze at, and welcome; they might make what sport they pleased of that, but not again of his living agony.
Duckworth, our newest curate, and tell him he's "the limit"; I may even take to abbreviating my affirmatives and negatives by saying "Yep" and "Nope" when I'm in a hurry; but if I do fall into these ways, I tremble to think what may be the effect on Mother. "Why, Betty, you never told me you were interviewed on the dock." These were the first words Mrs.
Which way?" "Must be toward the dock, sir!" panted Greer driving up. "Where's Caradoc?" "Yonder." He pointed toward a distant twinkle in the water. "We must get together yell to him, warn him!" The two lads began a strenuous chorus that further used up their exhausted strength. Caradoc responded by a wave of his hand. Then when he understood "sharks" he gathered speed in their direction.
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