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A strong wind was racing in from the east, giving the captain a busy time in handling the boat. This was still more difficult when they reached the channel, and the Roaring Bess drove into the rougher water which is always found there. The white-caps leaped high, and drenched both man and boy. "Lucky we brought our oil-skins," the captain remarked.
George looked at him as if he had first seen him, so that Amory once more explained his presence and pointed to the oil-skins. And St. George said only: "Now we're coming up a little don't you think we're coming up a little? Throw it wide open, Jarvo now, go!" "What are you going to do when you catch them?" demanded Amory. "We can't lunge into them, for fear of hurting Miss Holland.
He is very fair-skinned, and I noticed this afternoon, when he was pulling on a brace, that the sleeves of his oil-skins, assisted by the salt water, have chafed his wrists till they are raw and bleeding and breaking out in sea-boils. Mr. Mellaire tells me that in another week there will be a plague of these boils with all hands for'ard. "When do you think we'll be up with the Horn again?"
"It is not well," said Jarvo, handing the vase with reluctance, "yet take it but see that it touches no lips. I charge you that, adôn." Amory smiled and slipped the little vase in his coat pocket. "It's all right," he said, "I won't let it get away from me. I can find my legs now; I'll go back down. Look sharp, Rollo. Be down there with the oil-skins.
And Klaus clenched his fists and thrust out one shoulder fiercely. But when January came, there was Peer in oil-skins, in the foc's'le of a Lofoten fishing-smack, ploughing the long sea-road north to the fishing-grounds, in frost and snow-storms.
She had intended to greet him with a cool hauteur after his neglect of nearly a month, but she could not rise in time; and, enveloped in a mass of hair, spread over a yard of the floor, it was impossible to be dignified. So she resolved to be charming. "I had to come in the back way like a tramp and leave my oil-skins in the kitchen," he announced, abruptly, as he entered. "Don't get up.
"No need when you are going pshaw, I'll fetch my Colt, and Mary shall watch us. I don't think she is afraid of much, are you, Rats?" he called her "Rats" because they were the one thing on earth she feared and then he went below, and I followed him, getting my revolver and my oil-skins, for I knew that it would be wet work.
Then came a quick twist of the oars, a sudden lull as the yawl shot within a boat's length of the rope ladder, and with the spring of a cat the man in oil-skins landed with both feet on its lower rung, and the next instant he was over the steamer's rail and on her deck beside me. I thought I knew that spring, even before I saw his face or got hold of his hand. It was Captain Bob.
At first I tried to play standing, but on the upward stroke my bow came in contact with the salt-fish and oil-skins that hung from the rafters, so I settled myself at last on a table in the corner, where I was out of the way, and got one of the people to hold up my music before me, as I had no stand.
Many sorts of fishing-tackle, and the nets and oil-skins of the men, are hung upon the walls or among the open rafters; and right overhead, under the thatch, there is a whole cowskin from which they make pampooties. Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
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