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They had been riding at some distance from the river, and out of sight of it, but now it came suddenly into view, just as this raft was passing by. There were two men on the raft. "See those men on the raft," said Marco. "They are paddling." "No," replied Forester; "they are sculling." "Sculling?" repeated Marco. "Yes," replied Forester. "They always scull a raft.
The boat moved very slowly forward. "If we go six feet in an hour, how long will it take us to go seven miles?" propounded Eunice. "Those questions are too difficult to be answered off-hand," said Will, sculling in his turn. "Sounds like Alice in Wonderland. If two boys eat a turkey at Thanksgiving, how many girls will eat a plum-pudding at Christmas?"
He and three other men, so he said, were sculling a very heavily laden boat up from Maidenhead one evening, and a little above Cookham lock they noticed a fellow and a girl, walking along the towpath, both deep in an apparently interesting and absorbing conversation.
I have seen a hundred colossal human tadpoles, overgrown larvae or embryos; nay, I am afraid we Protestants should look on a considerable proportion of the Holy Father's one hundred and thirty-nine millions as spiritual larvae, sculling about in the dark by the aid of their caudal extremities, instead of standing on their legs, and breathing by gills, instead of taking the free air of heaven into the lungs made to receive it.
"All right," said Bela, shrugging. "You come wit' me." This arrangement pleased Joe very well, and by it Bela succeeded in parting him from Sam. The two boats proceeded together down the smoothly flowing, willow-bordered stream. Shand and Jack took turns at sculling the larger craft, and Bela loafed on her paddle that they might keep up with her.
He walked toward the beach and prepared to shove off the dinghy, preparatory to sculling out to the hydroplane, which lay a few rods off shore in the channel. "Hold on, Sam," cried Bill; "we're coming. Don't go away sore."
It drifts apart like a forgotten dream; and it was in the hour of many dreams, at daybreak and very soon after the end of dark, that such a strange sight was given to a man sculling a boat down a river in the West country.
Slowly but steadily they moved, the paddle remaining in the water, sculling the little craft along as if it were a log drifting in the water. The deer occasionally raised their heads, looking all around, evidently regarding the boat as a harmless thing floating in from the lake. After gazing thus about them they stooped their heads again, and went on feeding, as if no danger were near them.
None of the number being acquainted with the process of sculling, they considered it imperative to secure the truant tool, unless they wished to perish floating about unseen; and having weighed the expediency of rigging Helen into a jury-mast, they were now using their endeavors to regain the oar, Mary Purcell whirling them about like a maelström with the remaining one, and Mrs.
"Keep on!" shouted Compton, fiercely. The levers clanked furiously, and Venning, who had suspended his sculling under the menace of the shot, tugged again at his work. The steam-whistle of the launch sounded a series of sharp, jerky calls, followed by the firing of a Mauser bullet.
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