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Updated: June 5, 2025
Then I must have touched the log and clung to it instinctively. Anyway, when I recovered more fully I knew that the 'long-shore lights looked thousands of miles away. I was too weak even to dream of trying to swim back, or to push the log before me. So I got a stout piece of cord out of one of my pockets and lashed myself to the log. I was afraid I might become unconscious again.
On each occasion they were hooted by the mob; and not without reason, when husbands were torn from their wives, fathers from their children several of those taken being either 'long-shore men or not even sailors but men were wanted, and Captain Olding had been directed to get as many as he could pick up, to supply the other ships expected shortly to form the convoy of the fleet of merchantmen.
He had us in roars of laughter. His stories were far from incredible, and he looked less like a liar than a detective. He showed, too, an accurate and astonishing knowledge of the lake which could hardly have been acquired in any other way than the long-shore trip he had described. Not once did he hint of a special purpose which had brought him to the island, and it was growing late.
"Captain Davis," said Ralph, "you must have seen some plucky things in your life. What was the bravest thing you ever saw done?" The life saver took the cigar that Hazeltine had given him from his mouth, and blew the smoke into the air over his head. "Well," he said slowly, "I don't know exactly. I've seen some pretty gritty things done 'long-shore here, in the service.
I am glad, Miles, you came up into this bloody top, for I wouldn't like to let your reg'lar 'long-shore harpies see a man of my time of life, and one that has been to sea, now, man and boy, close on to forty years, with as much blubber about him, as one of your right whales. Well and now for the log; for I suppose you'll insist on overhauling it, lads?"
"But how did it get there?" "You know, Master Fritz, it could not have told me, even if I had taken the trouble to inquire." "Very true, Willis." "I was determined, however, to find it out some other way, so I steered for a café near the harbor, where the pilots and long-shore captains go to play at dominoes.
"Oh, I don't know, sort of half-bred, long-shore chap looks something between a bumbailey and a bum-boatman." "Well, you may show him down." The man, who shortly after entered the cabin, was a short, punchy little fellow, with a red waistcoat, knee-breeches, and a round jacket of green cloth.
When it was quite dark, I left the Aged preparing the fire for toast; and I inferred from the number of teacups, as well as from his glances at the two little doors in the wall, that Miss Skiffins was expected. Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers.
So completely adapted is he for this amphibious long-shore existence, that his big eyes, unlike those of most other fish, are formed for seeing in the air as well as in the water.
A steamer was coming down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warnings, the stevedore and his porters were bawling from the quay. But in a stroke or two the canoes were away out in the middle of the Scheldt, and all steamers, and stevedores, and other long-shore vanities were left behind.
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