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He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them: "Stop her, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling!" The headway ran almost out, and he drew up slowly toward the sidewalk. "Ship up to back! Ting-a-ling-ling!" His arms straightened and stiffened down his sides. "Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling!
He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them: "Stop her, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling!" The headway ran almost out, and he drew up slowly toward the sidewalk. "Ship up to back! Ting-a-ling-ling!" His arms straightened and stiffened down his sides. "Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling!
Every detail of the pilot-house was familiar to me, with one exception, a large-mouthed tube under the breast-board. I puzzled over that thing a considerable time; then gave up and asked what it was for. 'To hear the engine-bells through. It was another good contrivance which ought to have been invented half a century sooner. So I was thinking, when the pilot asked
My uncomfortable reflections were broken by the clanging engine-bells and the forward movement of the passengers as the steamboat passed into the slip at Long Wharf. "Stand together, boys," I cautioned my men. "Keep back of the crowd. Wainwright will take the boy, and the rest of you see that nobody gets near him." "All right," said Wainwright, lifting the child in his arms.
Engine-bells clanged to and fro, and the strains of a saloon band rose to vex the girl's poetic soul with repugnant remembrances of the dance-hall. "I suppose he is only camping through," she thought, a little wistfully, referring back to the stranger. "I wish I knew who he is."
Every detail of the pilot-house was familiar to me, with one exception, a large-mouthed tube under the breast-board. I puzzled over that thing a considerable time; then gave up and asked what it was for. 'To hear the engine-bells through. It was another good contrivance which ought to have been invented half a century sooner. So I was thinking, when the pilot asked
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