Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
He desisted at once, and with a touch of his rough forelock, looked sheepish, and said, "Please ma'am, he was meddling with our lobster-pot." "I wasn't doing any harm," said Conrade. "I was just looking in, and they all came and shied stones at us." "I don't care how the quarrel began," said Rachel. "You would not have run into it if you had been behaving properly.
She hathn't got a sound thread to draw, I do believe. Who is the fool now, Mike? Though vexed I be to ask it." "Wait a bit, old lobster-pot. Ah, there now, she breezes! Whistle for a wind, lads, whistle, whistle. Sure as I'm a sinner, yes! She's laying her course to board the Frenchman on the weather quarter. With a slant of wind she'll do it, too, if it only holds two minutes.
"Right on deck; jest slid down the rock here this minute," said Uncle William. The man's eyes twinkled. "Remember the day he took my lobster-pot?" "Borrowed it," said Uncle William, dryly. "Borrowed it," assented the man. He chuckled a little. "He got his pay." Uncle William nodded. "He al'ays does. Andy's borrowin' lobster-pots now same Andy gets his pay every time.
What is that thing on the bottom, there?" said William, pointing in the direction. "That is a sea crawfish, quite as good eating as a lobster. I wonder if I could make a lobster-pot; we should catch plenty, and very good they are." "And what are those little rough things on the rock?"
At last they quite disappeared from the view round a projecting point of rock, and when she turned it, she found a battle royal going on over an old lobster-pot Conrade hand to hand with a stout fisher-boy, and Francis and sundry amphibious creatures of both sexes exchanging a hail of stones, water-smoothed brick-bats, cockle-shells, fishes' backbones, and other unsavoury missiles.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking