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As I stood upon the bridge, gazing into the jaws of the pool, a small boat shot suddenly through the arch beneath my feet. There were three persons in it; an oarsman in the middle, whilst a man and woman sat at the stern. I shall never forget the thrill of horror which went through me at this sudden apparition. What! a boat a small boat passing beneath that arch into yonder roaring gulf!
Besides, the old mountaineer was a skilled oarsman, albeit this accomplishment was not a part of the education of American hunters and trappers, as it was of the French voyageurs. Keeping his little craft head to the wind, he took each wave squarely on the prow, and with a powerful stroke of the oars cut through it, or sprang over it, and then made ready for the next.
"You have me beaten, and you'll get the bachelors' buttons; but you had the tide with you." "Nonsense! I had the lobsters extra!" asserted Aleck. "Well, if you had been born an Englishman, we'd make an oarsman out of you yet!" "Huh!" said Aleck. But they had news to tell the ladies, and while they were having their dinner their thoughts were turned to another matter.
The Zephyr was then brought alongside her late rival. "Starboard oars up!" said Frank. "Larboard oars up!" added Tony. "What now, I wonder?" queried Fred Harper. "Forward oarsman, step aboard the Butterfly," continued Frank. "Forward oarsman, step aboard the Zephyr," said Tony.
Dick Dawson used to be our best oarsman, but last June a fellow named Jerry Koswell beat him." "Koswell!" cried Sam. "I thought he was too much of a dude to row in a race." At this remark the senior smiled faintly. "Evidently you have met Mr. Koswell," he remarked pointedly. "We have," answered Tom. "Well, he can row, if he can't do anything else."
His visits always ended in the kitchen, invited there by Uncle Caragol, who was accustomed to treat him with fraternal familiarity. If the youthful oarsman was perspiring greatly.... "A refresquet?" And the chef would prepare his sweet mixture that made men, after one gulp, fall into the haziness of intoxication. Esteban esteemed highly the "refrescos" of the cook.
The prow of the boat is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon the monster's spine; and standing in that prow, for that one single incomputable flash of time, you behold an oarsman, half shrouded by the incensed boiling spout of the whale, and in the act of leaping, as if from a precipice. The action of the whole thing is wonderfully good and true.
She was actually in the boat, and about to cross the lake, when a rude oarsman attempted to pull aside her muffler, and the whiteness of the hand she raised in self-protection betrayed her, so that she was carried back. "If she had reached Dumbarton," he said, "she might have mocked at the Lords of the Congregation. Nay, she might have been in that very brig, whose wreck I beheld."
On went the frail shell, careering and plunging as the mad waters chose. Still the gallant little oarsman maintained his struggle with the raging billows, and actually got the canoe, by his persevering manoeuvring so close to Iris Island, as to have her driven by a providential wave in between the little islands called the Sisters.
"I thought you were a better oarsman," he said to the other; "but now I suppose we shall not come near them until we land." But the Archibald party did not land.
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