Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 23, 2025
I might even be of some slight use," and she smiled at him till his own slow smile responded, troubled and amazed though he evidently was by her determination. "I've roughed it a good deal with daddy-prof. I can cook some things. And I can do housework " "Bet Gallup does that," interposed Cap'n Abe, finally getting his bearings. "Hi-mighty, ye did take me aback all standin', Niece Louise!
Hi-mighty! I just got to get him aboard!" With an agility that belied his years he leaped for the schooner's rail as the next surge rose. He swarmed inboard and started up the shrouds. Those below remained silent while he climbed. He reached the helpless man, whipped out his knife, cut the lashings. Slight as the storekeeper seemed, his muscles were of steel.
It needs a coat o' paint hi-mighty bad. Ought to be fixed up some 'fore havin' its picture took don't ye think so, Niece Louise?" The girl awoke to the matter sufficiently to advise him: "The lack of paint will not show in the picture, Uncle Amazon. And I suppose they want the store for a location just because it is weather-beaten and old-fashioned." "I want to know!
"As a boy I fed it upon all the romances of the sea I could gather. Ye-as. I suppose I am greatly to be blamed. I have been a hi-mighty liar, Louise! "It began because I heard so many other men tellin' of their adventoors, an' I couldn't tell of none. There's allus a lot of old barnacles like Cap'n Joab and Washy Gallup clingin' to such reefs as this.
I said when he come I'd go off on a v'y'ge. I'd fixed ev'rything proper for the exchange when you lit down on me, Niece Louise. Hi-mighty!" grinned Cap'n Abe, "at first I thought sure you'd spilled the beans." Louise rippled another appreciative laugh. "Oh, dear!" she cried, clapping her hands together. "It's too funny for anything! How you startled Betty!
Cap'n Abe clamped his jaws shut for a minute and his eyes blazed. Only the mild and inoffensive Amiel was left of his audience. "Huh!" he growled. "Ain't goin' to waste my breath on you, Amiel Perdue. Go git me a scuttle of coal." Then, when the young fellow had departed, the storekeeper grinned ruefully and whispered in his niece's ear: "Hi-mighty!
But while Cap'n Am'zon is here I can take a vacation that I've long hankered for, Niece Louise. I I got my plans all made." "Don't for one moment think of changing them on my account," Louise said briskly. "I shall like Uncle Amazon immensely if he's anything like you, Cap'n Abe." "He he ain't so much like me," confessed the storekeeper. "Not in looks he ain't. But hi-mighty!
I jumped; but I didn't jump far. There was two o' the things had me, and that left leg o' mine was fast as a duck's foot in the mud!" "Oh, Uncle Amazon!" gasped Louise. "Yep. A third arm whipped out o' the water had helt me round the waist tighter'n any girl of my acquaintance ever lashed her best feller. Land sakes, that devilfish certainly give me a hi-mighty hug!
"I dreamed of voyagin' into unknown seas of seein' the islands of the West and of the East of visitin' all the wonderful corners of the world of facin' all the perils and experiencin' all the adventures of a free rover. And what was my fate? "The tamest sort of a life," he said, answering his own question. "The flattest existence ever man could imagine. Hi-mighty!
Yet at supper time Cap'n Amazon was as calm and cheerful as usual and completely ignored the accident of the afternoon. "Hi-mighty likely mess of tautog you caught, Louise," he said, ladling the thick white gravy dotted with crumbly yellow egg yolk upon her plate with lavish hand. "That Lawford Tapp knows where the critters school, if he doesn't know much else." "Oh, Uncle Amazon!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking