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Updated: June 8, 2025
It seemed an age, a year to Jimmie Dale before the line was clear. Shouts rang still louder across the lawn the police, racing in a pack, were more than halfway from the house. He flung the line into the boat, sprang in after it and Mittel, looming over him, grasped at the boat's gunwhale. Both men were panting from their exertions. "Let go!" snarled Jimmie Dale between clenched teeth.
He kept perfectly still, however, for some little time, until satisfied that there was no one at the wheel above, he pushed the canoe softly back to the rope ladder, that a day or so before he had seen hanging over the side. It was the work of a moment to make his little boat fast to the lower rung. Then slipping over the rail, he climbed stealthily up till his head protruded above the gunwhale.
These varied from sixteen to twenty-two feet in length, with an upward curve towards each end. Laths were introduced from stem to stern instead of planks they were provided with a gunwhale or edging which, though slight, added strength to the fabric the whole was covered on the outside with deer skins sewed together and fastened by stitching the edges round the gunwhale.
She had set Henory and Martha to work, giving more play to the straps which, fastened to pegs driven in the edge of the chariot, secured the handles of the scythes, which were used for defense in the same manner as oars fastened to the gunwhale of a boat. Several young girls and women of our kindred were occupied with other cares.
For a long time, almost an hour, I lay in silence, thinking only of what I saw and heard around me. There was more than enough to keep me awake. I noticed how the sail billowed out, full of wind, pulling hard at the clew-line, which was made fast to the gunwhale beside Hrolfur. The fore-sail resembled a beautifully curved sheet of steel, stiff and unyielding.
Now it appeared quite distinct, and now it seemed that a film of oil all but blotted it out. I blinked my eyes and peered hard through the baffling yellow glare. Then I reached for the rifle and climbed over the gunwhale. I smelled raw meat. Fortunately, we were drifting across a bar, and the slow water came only to my shoulders.
They sheered off, but in the excitement of the moment and the mortification of defeat Midshipmen Clapp and Danton drew their pistols and fired into the jeering crew ranged along the vessel's gunwhale, "not knowing," as they afterwards pleaded, "that there was any balls in the pistols." Evidence to the contrary was quickly forthcoming.
When he took a turn round the logger-head, the friction of the running line cut right into the white oak, but the wonderful cord and hook still held their own. At last the monster yielded, coming in at first inch by inch, then more rapidly, till raised in triumph above the gunwhale a yellow-tail six feet long. Then I got a giant cavalle.
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