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Updated: May 16, 2025
He smiled as he remembered how, not very far from where he sat, he had on a cloudy evening got into a horse-box, and boring a hole in it with a gimlet, applied his eye thereto, his satellite David Blunt doing the same in another end of the same horse-box, and how, having thus obtained a clear view of a truck in which several casks of wine were placed, he beheld one of the servants on the line in company with one of his friends who was not a servant on the line, coolly bore a hole in one of the wine casks and insert a straw, and, by that means, obtain a prolonged and evidently satisfactory draught which accounted at once for the fact that wine had been leaking in that locality for some time past, and that the said servant had been seen more than once in a condition that was deemed suspicious.
This operation eased the ship considerably, and certainly saved the masts. The worst piece of news that the captain had to tell Mr Meldrum was with reference to the manner in which the ship was leaking.
Later come those soft, smoky days, when the patches of winter grain show green under the shelter of leafless woods, and the last snow-drifts, reduced to shrunken skeletons of ice, lie upon the slope of northern hills, leaking away their life. Then the grass at your door grows into the color of the sprouting grain, and the buds upon the lilacs swell and burst.
A few wiser spirits held on to theirs, and this fact leaking out, it began to dawn upon the minds of the real collectors among us that the volume was something unique in the way of a publication. "Baxter," said our president one evening to a select few of us who sat around the fireplace, "was wiser than we knew, or than he perhaps appreciated.
The Wellington gave a lurch, and there was a strange creaking and cracking far below the deck. The Canadian pumped more madly than ever, and shouted to his companion in French. "Is she leaking worse?" asked Tom. The Canadian nodded. Then the Wellington gave another lurch, and Tom noticed that her bow gave an odd little dip.
And like the one-hoss shay about to collapse, the whole fabric of the resuscitated plant, leaking at a score of joints, creaking, whistling, shaking, voicing a hundred agonized mechanic woes, revived in a grotesque, absurd and shocking imitation of its one-time beauty and power. He sat down, exhausted, on the floor. In his hand the lamp trembled.
As Ready had prophesied, before night the gale blew, the sea rose again with the gale, and the leaking of the vessel increased so much, that all other labour was suspended for that at the pump.
You have been wet all day long, and have missed your dinner. Go at once and change your clothes, sir!" she commanded severely. "I have first to look at the warehouse, where the roof is leaking," I expostulated. "You shall do no such thing," replied she, "but dry yourself, and march into the dining room.
Outside in the wet dusk they boarded an electric car, Lilly and her mother crammed on a rear platform of the wet overcoats, leaking umbrellas, and wet-smelling mackintoshes of dinner-bound St. Louis. "He's a right nice young man, intelligent but if ever a person looked like a horse! You see, he agrees with your papa and me. You don't apply yourself to any one thing."
She rolled more heavily all the time, and Robert noticed that she was deeper in the water. Beyond a doubt she was leaking fast. The captain conferred with the second mate, a tall, thin man whom he called Stubbs. Then the two, standing together near the mast, watched the ship for a while and Robert, a little distance away, watched them. He was now keenly alive to his own fate.
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