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Updated: June 22, 2025
There had been something like vaudeville say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion. "Is that you, Mr. Givens?" said Josefa, in her deliberate, saccharine contralto. "You nearly spoilt my shot when you yelled. Did you hurt your head when you fell?" "Oh, no," said Givens, quietly; "that didn't hurt."
It isn't really his stomach: it is a bolster tied round his waist we know that; but seeing the long man whack at that bolster with an umbrella gives us almost as much joy as if the bolster were not there. I laugh at the knockabout brothers, I confess, so long as they are on the stage; but they do not convince me.
Still, George Hanford had operated a twelve-foot motor dingey at one time, Phil Street had sailed a knockabout and all had an average amount of common-sense, and it seemed that, with luck, they might somehow manage to escape death by drowning! Mr.
The boat was heavy; they pushed at the bow with no breath to spare for an encouraging word: but the turmoil of terror that had scattered their self-command like chaff before the wind, converted their desperate exertions into a bit of fooling, upon my word, fit for knockabout clowns in a farce.
If we were all fairly good seamen it might be all right, but I wouldn't want to try to handle the Cockatoo without a couple of sailors aboard." "I once sailed a knockabout," said Perry. "And I had a great-grandfather who was a sea captain," offered Joe encouragingly. "What price great-grandfather?" "Don't see where your grandfather and Perry's grandmother come into this," replied Steve.
DeLancey, sitting under the awning of the after deck of "The Idlesse," and gazing out upon the sound where Jack Schuyler, Tom Blake and Kathryn Blair were defying the laws of nature in a thirty foot knockabout, much to the unspoken anxiety of two fathers and the spoken fear of three mothers, again voiced this thought on the following evening.
The gold-brown hair, in loosened strands, whipped across her tanned cheek; her gown, open at the throat, revealed a glimpse of straight, perfectly-poised throat; her lips were parted and her breath came fast in the excitement of it. Blake held the knockabout to its course, with the confidence of youth in his prowess, against them.
"Pretty, pretty, pretty," you could hear the gang along our rail. "They talk about knockabout racing craft," said Clancy, "but did y'ever see anything drop to a berth slicker than that? And that's a vessel you c'n go to sea in, and in the hardest winter gale that ever blew you c'n turn in when your watch is done and have a feeling of comfort."
Moored there lay a handsome white sloop, some forty-two feet in length a boat of a good and seaworthy knockabout type. "This is a sloop, all right," Jack agreed, cordially. "Rather different from the lumbering fishing craft hereabouts." "Oh, hah, yum!" yawned Hal, at which Curtis shot a quick glance at him. "Come on board," invited Curtis, stepping down to the deck of the craft.
It was a sound that he well knew the hoisting of sail. "I wonder if the local fishermen start out at this time of the night?" Eph Somers remarked, musingly, to the sentry. "It may be so, sir; I don't know," replied the marine. Presently Eph made out the lines and the spread of canvas of a handsome knockabout sloop standing on out of the harbor.
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