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Updated: May 5, 2025
But Curtis had already caught hold of the young man, and was hurrying him to the main-mast shrouds, when the Chancellor, which had been scudding along rapidly with the wind, stopped suddenly, with a violent shock, and began to settle. The sea rose over my ankles, and almost instinc- tively I clutched at the nearest rope.
"Then we will go and the sooner we start the better." "I'm thinking of them porpoises," said Raft. "What about them?" "Well, there's a saying they hug the shore pretty close if bad weather is coming. It's fine to-day, but I've a feeling there's going to be another blow soon and maybe we'd better wait till it's over maybe it's instinc'," he finished, looking round shyly. The girl laughed.
"I am rather particular about the fit, I fear!" "And what for no, sir?" answered the soutar. "I'll do what I can onygait, I promise ye but wi' mair readiness nor confidence as to the fit; for I canna profess assurance o' fittin' the first time, no haein the necessar instinc' frae the mak' o' the man to the shape o' the fut, sir."
I reckon we'd better trust to instinc'." He laughed in his beard. "The same sort of instinc' that made that bird drop the fish to give you soundin's of that mud hole." "Providence," said she, "yes you are right." "I believe in strikin' bold," said he, almost as though he were talking to himself. "It's like fighting with a chap, the fellow that does the hittin' without bothering about bein' hit.
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