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Updated: June 2, 2025
But for many years the riverman's chief reliance was that curious instinct or second sight which enabled the trained pilot to pick his way along the most tortuous channel in the densest fog, or to find the landing of some obscure plantation on a night blacker than the blackest of the roustabouts, who moved lively to the incessant cursing of the mate.
Here and there single logs were even projected bodily upwards, as an apple seed is shot from between the thumb and forefinger. Then the jam moved. Scotty Parsons, Jack Hyland, Red Jacket, and the forty or fifty top men had reached the shore. By the wriggling activity which is a riverman's alone, they succeeded in pulling themselves beyond the snap of death's jaws.
If Belloc and Grier'll agree to them, we'll do away with this constant trouble between our gangs." "And you'd like me to help you?" He smiled a big riverman's smile down at her, full of good-humour and audacity. "If you could make it clear to Fabian that all I'm after is peace on the river, it'd do a lot of good."
Spirals of smoke began to rise from the shore, and he knew that the riverman's happiest of all hours, supper time, was close at hand. He looked at his watch. It was after seven o'clock. Then he watched the fading away of the sun until only the red glow of it remained in the west, and against the still thicker shadows the fires of the rivermen threw up yellow flames.
He found that he knew, as if by instinct, every trick of the riverman's trade, the slow stroke, the fast stroke, the best stroke for a long day's sail, the little half-turn in his hands that put the blade on edge in the water and gave him the finest control. It was all so familiar, so unspeakably dear to him. Clear, bright memories hovered close to him, almost within his grasp.
He was still the old Duggan, ready to fight for his river at the drop of a hat! Keith wanted to hug him. He shifted his pack and said: "I've slept with it for a week just to have it for company on the way down from Cumberland House. Seems good to get back!" He took off his hat and met the riverman's eyes squarely. "Do you happen to know if McDowell is at barracks?" he asked. "He is," said Duggan.
If took a great deal of explanation on Bobby's part; but finally there was conveyed to the young riverman's understanding a slight notion of the situation. To the child the day seemed lost; but Jimmy Powers was more resourceful. He surveyed his charge thoughtfully. "You're all right, kid," he announced at last. "Your collar's all right, and your hair ain't wet.
Inoffensive citizens are stood on their heads, or shaken upside down until the contents of their pockets rattle on the street. Parenthetically, these contents are invariably returned to their owners. The riverman's object is fun, not robbery. And if rip-roaring, swashbuckling, drunken glory is what he is after, he gets it.
"We won't neither of us be near as much trouble to ourselves to-morrow, will we?" So he had overheard the riverman's remark that morning. Bob laughed. "That's right," approved Welton, "take it easy. Necessities is a great comfort, but you can do without even them." After supper all sprawled around a fire. Welton's big bulk extended in the acme of comfort.
He lifted and surveyed one foot comically, and Bob noticed that his shoes were not armed with the riverman's long, sharpened spikes. "Pretty good hunting here in the fall, and fishing later. Not much now. Up here to look around a little?" "No, not quite," said Bob vaguely.
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