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Updated: July 10, 2025
'Where would you 'a buried 'im, then, Muster Lantoff? asked a fisher-boy in a blue worsted jerkin. 'Buried 'im? why, at the cross-ruds, with a hedge-stake through his guts, to be sure. 'You blear-eyed, ignorant old donkey, I cried, coming suddenly upon him, 'what do you suppose he could have done with a dead body in these days?
Whereupon someone observed that if he could not foretell the future he would not be a prophet. "By Father Abraham!" exclaimed an old ferryman, "if prophets had always foretold truly the universe would have fallen into the sea and been drowned long ago. I can prophesy too; if he comes, well, he'll be here." "Then he'll soon be here," said a fisher-boy, laughing, "for there he comes."
But it is certainly refreshing, after wandering in an unreal Sicily and an imaginary Arcadia, and listening to shepherds discourse of the abuses of the Roman Curia, to dive into the waters of the bay of Naples, or wanton in fancy along its sunlit shore from the low rocks of Baiae to the sheer cliffs of Sorrento, and to feel that, even though Jacopo was no Neapolitan fisher-boy, and Carmosina no nymph of Posilipo, yet the poet had at least before him the blue water and the dark rocks, and in his heart the love that formed the theme of his song .
Then he plunged along, not off his feet, and reached the island where the boys were holding out their arms to him. There ensued a few moments of apparently hot debate, and she saw, to her horror and amazement, that he was thrusting back one boy, who struggled and almost fell off the rock in his passion, as Gerald lifted down the little fisher-boy.
This Paou had been a poor fisher-boy, picked up with his father at sea, while fishing, by Ching-yih, whose good will and favor he had the fortune to captivate, and by whom, before that pirate's death, he had been made a captain. Instead of declining under the rule of a woman, the pirates became more enterprising than ever. Ching's widow was clever as well as brave, and so was her lieutenant Paou.
To no one could that look mean what it meant to her. To no other heart could it make the same appeal. And so in those few days between Hermione and the fisher-boy a firm friendship was established. And to Hermione this friendship came like a small ray of brightly golden light, falling gently in a place that was very dark.
Tell them that you are a fisher-boy belonging to the North sea trawling fleet, and that you have called from a house which wants a job undertaken. You will then explain about the fishery, and how the wrists of the men are chafed, and break out into painful sores, and how worsted mitts serve the purpose at once of prevention and cure.
Under this gratifying impression the fisher-boy drew himself up to his full height, his little chest swelling with new sensations, and his whole body rolling along with a nautical swagger that drew on him the admiration of some, the contempt of others, and caused several street boys to ask "if his mother knowed 'e was hout," and other insolent questions. But Billy cared for none of these things.
In College Road, Clifton, Bristol, an octogenarian thinking he would add novelty to the Jubilee celebrations at the College, leaped off the roof of his house, crying, "I'll fly over the Close! I will fly over the Close!" and broke his neck. In St. Ives, Cornwall, where the treatment of animals is none too humane, a fisher-boy threw a visitor's Pomeranian over the Malakoff saying, "You shall fly!
It was Sunday afternoon, and, dressed in his best, the fisher-boy stood up straight in class to repeat his hymn to his earnest-eyed, sweet-faced teacher, 'Miss Theedory. And the words he fought sleepily to remember must have been born of his nearness to the growling monsters within the caravan 'Christian, dost thou see them On the holy ground, How the troops of Midian Prowl and prowl around?
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