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This warning was well-timed; for, just at that instant the whale ceased sculling, and lifting its enormous tail high in the air, it struck five or six blows on the surface of the water, that made a noise which might have been heard half a league, besides filling the atmosphere immediately around him with spray.
"I say," said an urchin, who was looking on with admiring eyes, "I say, Bill, that beats all natur. Did you ever see such shindys?" "They ain't so bad," returned Bill; "but I guess I can do some of 'em myself." "Which ones?" inquired the other. "Why," answered Bill, "when he throws himself right about face, and then goes sculling backwards." "I'll bet you can't do it the first time."
The oar upon being fitted in the cavity could be rapidly turned to the right and to the left, with a peculiar motion known to those who have learned the art of successfully sculling a craft in this way. It is wonderful what progress can be made in that fashion. Shack seemed to know all about it, for presently Bandy-legs emitted a whoop that would have shamed an Indian brave.
"It may be," said Ruggiero carelessly. "But of course she would thank, and say 'Who is this Ruggiero? and besides, the world is full of women." Bastianello was about to ask the interpretation of this rather enigmatical speech when there was a stir on the pier and two or three boats put out, the men standing in them and sculling them stern foremost.
Will you never, without strong reason, let pass your lips what I am going to say? She bent forward to say it in a whisper. 'I promise, said Miss Abbey. 'It was on the night when the Harmon murder was found out, through father, just above bridge. And just below bridge, as we were sculling home, Riderhood crept out of the dark in his boat.
If they failed to pass that awful boiling caldron they would be lost. It was a terrifying spectacle, and Charley's heart stood still. They were close upon the reef. Skipper Zeb's face was tense. He was working like a giant, and Toby, too, was putting all the strength he possessed upon the sculling oar.
Its lake-like expanses, without a spiteful rock or shoal, are alive with ships, barks, brigs, junks, proas, sampans, canoes; and the stranger is beset by a flotilla of river pedlers, expertly sculling under the stern of the steamer, and shrilly screaming the praises of their wares; while here and there, in the thick of the bustle and scramble and din, a cunning, quick-handed Chinaman, in a crank canoe, ladles from a steaming caldron his savory chow-chow soup, and serves it out in small white bowls to hungry customers, who hold their peace for a time and loll upon their oars, enraptured by the penetrating brew.
I struck into a tangled sort of pathway through the gorse, or whatever it's called down here, and it brought me out near the river. His lordship was just sculling down, and then I knew it was some one else had gone by the lodge, and not him. Perhaps it was your lordship?" "You knew it was Lord Hartledon in the boat? I mean, you recognized him? You did not mistake him for me?"
The young pilot felt like a conqueror when he had placed the first cask in position. Sculling the wherry back to the raft, he pulled the string attached to the toggle, and drew it out of the noose. "Hoist away," said he. "Hoist, it is," replied Ethan, as he took hold with him. "All right!" shouted the young nautical engineer. "I feel like giving three cheers," he added.
Whether he should find the place he had no idea; and, indeed, it was sufficiently small and forgotten. But, as things fell out, he found it much sooner than he expected. They had moored their boat one night under a bank veiled in high grasses and short pollarded trees. Sleep, after heavy sculling, had come to them early, and by a corresponding accident they awoke before it was light.
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