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Besides, her steerin' gear's broke," answered Zeb, without moving his eyes. This Gaffer's Rock was the extreme point of the opposite arm of the cove a sharp tooth rising ten feet or more above high-water mark. As the little schooner came tearing abreast of it, a huge sea caught her broadside, and lifted as if to fling her high and dry.
London: Printed for G. Strahan, S. Ballard" and a score of booksellers "MDCCXLI." Heavens knows why he read it; since he understood about one-half, and admired less than one-tenth. The Oriental reflections struck him as mainly blasphemous. But the Gaffer's religious belief marked down nine-tenths of mankind for perdition: which perhaps made him tolerant.
The Gaffer's eyes wandered from a brambling hopping about the lichen-covered boulders, and away to the sea-fowl wheeling above the ships: and then came into his mind a tale he had read once in "The Turkish Spy." "I wouldn't say just that," he answered slowly. "Anyway," said Long Ede, "I believe the Lord sent a miracle to us to save us all." "I wouldn't say just that, either," the Gaffer objected.
Yet she came with a rush like a greyhound's, heeling over the whitened water, close under the cliffs, and closer with every instant. A man, standing on any one of the points she cleared so narrowly, might have tossed a pebble on to her deck. "Hey, friends, but she'll not weather Gaffer's Rock. By crum! if she does, they may drive her in 'pon the beach, yet!" "What's the use, i' this sea?
It's a round finger, like the handle of a jug, and won't point at you when they're lecturing, and the skin's like an old coat on gaffer's shoulders or, Chloe! just like, when you look at the nail, a rumpled counterpane up to the face of a corpse. I declare, it's just like! I feel as if I didn't a bit mind talking of corpses tonight. And my money's gone, and I don't much mind.
Up there!" said he, hailing the scaffold, "are you coming down for a glass?" I must get on: my work is not superintending, like the gaffer's yonder; but, you fellows, send us up a glass to drink the haymakers' health."
Some half-hour of this work, and Riderhood unshipped his sculls, stood holding on to a barge, and hand over hand long-wise along the barge's side gradually worked his boat under her head into a secret little nook of scummy water. And driven into that nook, and wedged as he had described, was Gaffer's boat; that boat with the stain still in it, bearing some resemblance to a muffled human form.
You are working at Stevenson's, mother says; will it be permanent? 'I'll see. It depends on hoo I feel, replied the old man complacently. 'I've been in waur places, an' the gaffer's very slack. He disna work a ten-hoors' day ony mair than the rest o's. 'Though you are paid for it, I suppose? said Walter.
"Gaffer, Gaffer's son, and his little jackass, Were trotting along the road." The chorus of which ditty was "Ee-aw, Ee-aw!" like the braying of a jackass. "Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee; thou art translated," cried Quince, looking at Winterbottom. "Very well very well, Mr Western.
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