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Updated: June 26, 2025
In his endeavors he mounted the desk and disappeared, wrestling with the scuttle, all except his lower limbs and expansive boots. "My Lord!" muttered one who had been long groaning under a Cossey mortgage; "ef I could only h'ist the rest of ye up there, and shet ye up!" "I sh'd like to give him jest one jab with my hatpin," added a sister sufferer, under her breath.
One of his arrums he couldn't lift from the shoulder, and I give him a h'ist wit' his bundle. Faith, it was light! 'Twinty years a-getherin', he cackles, slappin' it. 'Ye've had harrud luck, I says. ''T is not much of a sheaf ye are packin' home. 'That's as ye look at it, he says.
One of the iron bands on our rudder got broke and sprung out a good while ago, and it must have been the sharp end of that which punched into yer boat when we drifted down on her. We ain't got no tackle suitable to h'ist her on board, and as to towin' her a big boat like that, full of water, 't ain't possible.
"Did you ever ride on an elephant, Cap'n Sproul?" inquired Hiram. "Never tried it," said the seaman. "Well, I want you to come up here with me. Imogene will h'ist you. I was thinkin', as it's gettin' rather dull here in the village just now" Hiram yawned obtrusively "we'd go out and join the ladies.
"Zoeth, I've got a funny feelin', too, but I know what's the reason for it the reason is turkey and plum puddin' and mince pie and the land knows what. When a couple of old hulks like you and me h'ist in a cargo of that kind it's no wonder we have feelin's. Good night, shipmate." The day after New Year's Mary went back to Boston and to school.
"You understand, Bob; I h'ist that signal, as it might be to-morrow, and I keep her flyin' night and day. And so long as you see her flyin', you says, 'Cap'n's all right so far! you says.
"A poor figger of a pirate was that same Kidd," spoke up another. "He ne'er scuttled a ship nor fought an action. An' his treasure was all in my eye. What did he swing for, at Execution Dock? For crackin' the skull of his gunner with a wooden bucket." "They can't h'ist this Cap'n Teach to the same gibbet any too soon to please me, Sam," croaked a horse-faced rogue with two fingers chopped off.
One was a colonel and the other was a major. They were both just back from India, and natty-lookin' chaps as you ever saw. And clear stuff all the way through you could tell that before they opened their mouths. "I was on the deck of the Screamer, overhaulin' the fall, surrounded by most of the crew, gettin' ready to h'ist the stone, when I first saw 'em.
Here I'll give yeh a h'ist." The lead-horse nickered softly, and reaching up, the girl stroked his velvet nose. "He's woman broke," repeated the cowboy, and as Alice looked up her eyes strayed past him to the window of the coach where they met Endicott's steady gaze. The next moment Purdy was lifting her into the saddle, and without a backward glance the two rode out across the flat.
For the Lord's sake! just like that. And I fished for him with the pole that stood there and he was sorry and caught hold of it and give in, and I rested the pole agin the side cause I wasn't strong enough to h'ist him out; and he held on whilest I run for help " "And I got the ladder and he clum out," said the giant with another grin of recollection, "he was awful wet!"
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