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It was indeed wonderful to see what consciousness and sympathy they endowed her with. "Elizabeth is behaving well," the captain said one morning, as he watched her swelling canvas and noted her speed. "There isn't much sea on," answered David; "hardly more than what we used to call in Shetland 'a northerly lipper. But yet I don't like the look to the east'ard and the nor'ard."
Before we got so near the field as to find a better lee, the little lipper that came athwart our bows froze almost as soon as it wet us. I do suppose, sir, there are now several tons of ice on our bows, counting from channel to channel, forward." On an examination this proved to be true, and the knowledge of the circumstance did not at all contribute to Gardiner's feeling of security.
I could catch the rustle of the water on the beach not of any waves, for the bay was smooth as glass, but just a lipper at the fringe; and wishing to put off with any excuse the descent into the passage, though I had quite resolved to make it, I settled with myself that I would count the water wash twenty times, and at the twentieth would let myself down into the hole.
Twenty times did each fancy that he saw the dark back, or head, of the object he sought; but as often did it prove to be no more than a lipper of water, rolling up into a hummock ere it broke, or melted away again into the general mass of the unquiet ocean.
"You have had a tranquil watch, Jack," said Harry, when he was called by the person named, and had fairly aroused himself from his slumbers. "Has the wind stood as it is since sunset?" "No change whatever, sir. It has blown a good working breeze the whole watch, and what is surprising not as much lipper has got up as would frighten a colt on a sea-beach." "We must be near the reef, by that.
Reeves axed him tew time and time agin! Not he. That was blowin' a fresh o' wind, an' he jest lay down in the lee scuppers, and 'I can't get no wetter, Posh, he say, and let the lipper slosh oover him. Ah! He was a master rum un, was my ole guv'nor!"
The trees are blown white, the grass is black with shadows, and the sea springs up like magic into a short nasty "lipper." Within half-an-hour the lipper has gathered size, and in a terribly short time there are ugly, medium-sized waves bowling fiercely and regularly westward. The change mostly comes just about an hour after the tide has turned.
The rock was covered two feet by an ordinary spring tide; but on the night when Roughit and Lance decided to try and pass it, about a foot was above water. There was not a great deal of sea on; indeed, there was hardly more than what the fishermen call a "northerly lipper;" but the tide was running with extraordinary swiftness. Roughit put the helm down and guessed at his bearings.
He therefore operates under the name of Lipper, Loeb, and Kahn, and I don't mind saying he is doing very well, but I hope he won't stay long in that building, for some of that bunch of crooks under him I don't mean Warbalowsky, you understand will probably touch off the place some night and leave him with a total loss and only forty per cent insurance to value."
Each lipper of a wave works like tartar emetic on the lad in marine gear."
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