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"Let's go at once. Yonder's a little fellow who will let us have his punt for a few pence. I know him. Hallo, Tom!" "Ay, ay," squeaked a boy who was so small that he could scarcely lift the oar, light though it was, with which he sculled his punt cleverly along. "Shove alongside, like a good fellow; we want your boat for a little to row out a bit."
The captain sculled the skiff slowly toward the crocodile, which was lying on the water, just under the bank. As they approached, the creature slowly sank beneath the surface of the water, which was shallow, and beneath it a bottom of mud in which the fleeing reptile had left his trail.
Did the wife of a parishioner venture into such a place of temptation as the theatre at Carisbury, was she seen being sculled by young Bulteel in his new skiff of a summer evening, the churchwarden was charged to interview her husband, to point out to him privately the scandal that was being caused, and to show him how his duty lay in keeping his belongings in better order.
However, I thought I might as well; so, after dinner, when it was dark, I sculled over in the dinghy, hailed a sailor on deck, said who I was, and asked if I could see the owner. The sailor was a surly sort of chap, and there was a good long delay while I waited on deck, feeling more and more uncomfortable.
But at last I could wait no longer. With my hands in the rough wet walls I hauled out of the cleft and started on my search for Carette. The shore thereabouts was a honeycomb of sharp-toothed rocks. I took an oar over the stern and sculled slowly and silently out from the land.
Into this I stepped, as directed, with my sword and pistols, which had been given back to me, while the crew pushed her off and sprang in as she glided into deep water. I could see by the dim light of the single torch which Murgatroyd held upon the margin, that the roof of the cave sloped sheer down upon us as we sculled slowly out towards the entrance.
We have, you know, no wharves on the western streams, and the custom was, if passengers were at any of the landings, they were to go out in a boat, the steamer stopping and taking them on board.... Two men with trunks came down to the shore in carriages, and looking at the different boats, singled out mine, and asked, 'Who owns this? I modestly answered, 'I do. 'Will you take us and our trunks out to the steamer? 'Certainly.... The trunks were put in my boat, the passengers seated themselves on them, and I sculled them out to the steamer.
"Now here we'll stay," said Edna with a sigh, "until the sea-breeze springs up this afternoon at four or five. What time is it now? Two o'clock! Think of it!" "The tide takes us along a little," said Mrs. Somers. "If we only had the other oar now!" "Scull," suggested Edna. "Too much work," said Archie; but, nevertheless, he adjusted the oar at the stern, and sculled a little.
"It's much better," said Joan sensibly, "than two oars and one arm. Please get in." She went to the stern and stood there, waiting, one hand upon the oar. Fascinated, Kenny climbed in. What a ferryman! he mused as Joan sculled the punt from shore. What a gown and what a background!
There were inevitable awkward moments that could only be surmounted by the exercise of considerable tact, and the hours which Lady Arabella passed sitting to Quarrington for her portrait, while Magda wandered alone through the woods or sculled a solitary boat up the river, helped to minimize the strain considerably.
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