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Updated: September 29, 2025
Last of all the abbess was to be lifted over the shallow water, and the old ship-builder held himself in readiness to perform this service. Joanna, Pulcheria, Perpetua, and Eudoxia, who was also zealously orthodox, were standing round as she gave Paula a parting kiss and whispered: "God bless thee, child! All now depends on you, and you must be doubly careful to abide by your promise."
Masterman, the ship-builder, was still alive. He told me that he had been dead about three months. `And to whom did he leave his money? I asked, `for he was very rich, and had no kin. `He had no relations, replied the gentleman, `and he left all his money to build an hospital and almshouses.
We like to think and to say that nothing is impossible in these days of ceaseless and energetic progress. Certainly it is possible for the brains of marine designers to find a better way for rescue work. Lewis Nixon, ship-builder and designer for years, is sure that we can revolutionize safety appliances.
In every port resounded the axe and hammer of the ship-builder; in every arsenal blazed the flames of busy forges. All Spanish Europe echoed with the din of arms. Provisions were amassed in a thousand granaries; soldiers were daily mustered on the parade-grounds, drilled, and accustomed to the use of arquebus and cannon.
The ship-builder not only knows that this can be done; but, complying with the wishes of the merchant-owner, he does it, and has done it for so long a period that he has grown to believe that this clumsy structure is the true shape of a ship, and would not, and could not, build any other.
It seemed to him a happy thought, for the few words of Russian he had learned would come in play, and he was quite sure that his own family name made him kin to that of the great Czar. He studied up the life in the Encyclopaedia, and decided to take the costume of a ship-builder.
When the ship-builder has received an order, we will say, to construct a ship, and has ascertained for what route, and for what purpose, and of what size it is to be, he and his ship's draughtsman 'lay their heads together' to devise such an arrangement of timbers as will meet the requirements of the case.
I'm a ship-builder." "I didn't know they built vessels a hundred miles from the coast," said Lynde. "I am building a ship don't say I'm not!" "Of course I know nothing about it." "A marble ship." "A ship to carry marble?" "No, a ship made of marble; a passenger ship. We have ships of iron, why not of marble?" he asked fiercely.
If his memory served it was hundreds of years ago three, five he could not remember how many, but hundreds. Could this man, whose hair was only just touched with gray, be hundreds of years old? "How long? a matter of twenty years or thereabouts," said the ship-builder. "See, the pretty little ship; and thy very own, for I made it for thee."
When at last, by dint of much saving and scraping together, much hoeing of Indian corn, the old stocking-foot was at last filled, all the little odd bits, poured out and counted up, came to enough to speak to the ship-builder. Oh, the model! how the old man's brain worked over that! Then the timber, each was a chosen piece; oak, apple, cherry, pine, each tree sent a stick.
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