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Updated: June 4, 2025
For I had signed on to complete the voyage, via Iqueque, on the West Coast of South America, to Hamburg ... I hesitated, I say, because, on shipboard, you're at least sure of food and a place to sleep.... Karl and I had been set to work at giving the cabin a thorough overhauling.
But one stormy night, by an accident for which he was in nowise accountable, in overhauling a spare anchor-chain he had all the fingers of his left hand badly crushed. And his hopes were likewise crushed, for it was impossible for him to continue hunting with the boats, and he was forced to stay idly aboard until his fingers should heal.
'There's a good many strange people in the colony, Dick, my boy, says Starlight, 'and the longer you live the more you'll find of them. Some day, when we've got quiet horses, we'll come up and have a regular overhauling of the spot. It's years since I've been there. 'Suppose he turned out some big swell from the old country? Dad says there used to be a few in the old days, in the colony.
On September 20, 1914, she made a dash into the harbor of Zanzibar and found there the British cruiser Pegasus, which on account of her age was undergoing a complete overhauling. She was easy prey for the German ship, for besides the fact that she was stationary her guns were of shorter range than those of her adversary.
Neat little undergarments, white little frocks, a something that the miner felt by instinct was a "nightie," and two pairs of the smallest of stockings rewarded the overhauling of the package, and left Jim momentarily speechless. "By jinks!" said Keno, pulling down his sleeves, "them are awful small fer us!"
"Are they Field and Melling?" asked Tom, trying not to let any excitement betray itself in his voice. "That's the names they gave me," said the man. "Little man's Field. He gave me his card. I'm going to get a job overhauling his car. There isn't enough work here to keep a man busy, and I told 'em I could do a little on the outside. This place just started, and not many folks know about it yet."
It needs what you call an overhauling, but it will take us to Athens." Polly, with an ear trained to engine sounds, wondered whether it would. She felt that the last straw would be to be stranded in the middle of the night in a lonely spot with this good-looking young man, who, to make matters worse, had turned out to be twenty-five instead of nineteen.
Both Rock and Doret were sufficiently familiar with the hazards and the disappointments of travel at this time of year to feel extremely doubtful of overhauling the two McCaskeys, and so they were by no means sanguine of success as they drove headlong into the night. Both teams were loaded light; neither driver carried stove, tent, or camp duffle.
"They may try, but they'll find that the `Ione' has a fast pair of heels, and we shall have the fun of overhauling them at all events," said Ned. At length the Arabs must have discovered the man-of-war. First the nearest hoisted her big sail, and also set one on her after-mast.
If we succeed in overhauling the rascal I shall feel sufficiently repaid for the small interruption. But come on, we can't afford to linger here while he is carrying off the plunder." "I don't know how I can repay you, Mr. Woods," said Rodney gratefully. "You can buy a lot of me when you get rich enough." "I will certainly do so, though I am afraid it will be a long time first."
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