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It was too perilous a proximity; so, as soon as Captain Billings had got down into the stern-sheets, he gave the order to shove off. "Easy her away gently, men," he said, as he took up the tiller lines, watching with a critical eye the movements of the men amidships and in the bow, as they poled the boat along the side of the ship until it passed clear of her by the stern.
Strongly, steadily, they poled the raft out through the marshy slip, on, on, past the crumbling wreckage of the pier-head. "Now the tide's got us," exclaimed Allan with satisfaction, as the moonlit current, all silver and rippling with calm beauty, swung them up-stream.
"Git out! Scat!" exclaimed Liz. "I'm a-goin' to let this dawg go!" "Don'cher dare!" shouted Sheriff Larkin. But the girl deliberately stooped over Barnacle, and began to unfasten the rope. At that the officer of the law turned and lumbered down the hill. Where his companions were the girls did not know. And the barge with the bloodhounds had been poled off shore a few rods.
The hunter handed the cords to the men and told them to pull steadily, but not hard enough to break the cords. Then he took from them the end of the rope they carried and poled back into the pool. "Those cords are not strong enough to pull the great beast to the shore, are they?" Chebron asked.
At another time, only a century or two ago, dug-outs of twenty feet or so were used in trade between the St Lawrence and the Hudson. They were of white pine, red or white cedar, or of tulip tree; and their crews poled standing or paddled kneeling, for they had no thwarts. They carried good loads, went well, with their canoe-shaped ends, and lasted ten or twelve years if tarred or painted.
Three boatmen poled it; Lois and Lana sat in the middle; behind them crouched two riflemen, long weapons ready, the ringed coon-tail floating in the breeze. Neither of the ladies had yet recognized me; Lana leaned lightly against Lois, her cheek resting on her companion's shoulder.
As you cannot see London for the people, so you cannot see the river for boats on these days all sorts of boats wherries, tubs, launches, racing crafts, shells, punts everything that can be poled, pulled, or wobbled, and in each one the invariable combination a man, a girl, and a dog a dog, a girl, and a man. This has been going on for ages, and will to the end of time.
So Janet let him pole out a little farther, until she saw that the shore was far away, and then she cried: "I want to go back!" "All right," answered Ted. "I don't want anybody on my raft who's a skeered. I'll go alone!" He poled back to shore and Janet got off the raft. Then Teddy shoved the wabbly mass of boards and sticks, fastened together with crooked nails, out into the lake again.
The question was flung at Kinnaird, but Ida saw that it was a relief to him when she answered it. "My father hired him. He was our camp-packer, the man who set up the tents, made the fires, and poled the canoes," she said. Weston stood up and, looking hard at Kinnaird, straightened himself. His face was an unpleasant red, and there was badly-suppressed anger in his eyes.
For half an hour they laboriously poled her with a long oar and the boathook between the banks of mire. Sometimes she touched and stuck until the rising water floated her off, and sometimes she scraped along the bottom, but still made progress. They were breathless and soaked with perspiration, while the foul scum that ran off the oar stained their damp clothes.
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