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Updated: May 23, 2025
The shipbuilder had come ashore with his young friends, registering at the Clayton and taking rooms there. "It's time for you youngsters to get ashore and have a little gaiety," Farnum had declared. "If you don't mix with lively people once in a while, you'll rust even while you keep the 'Benson's' machinery bright." Jack and Hal had agreed to this.
And here he found balm and encouragement awaiting him in the person of one Simon Radlett, a shipbuilder, owning an extensive yard at Millbay.
"Now, the trip to Craven's Bay is only an eight-hour sail at a good gait, so you won't really need to start until after dark to-night." "I believe I'd rather start now, though, and go at less speed," suggested Jack, thoughtfully. "That's just as you please, of course," nodded the shipbuilder.
Helped cousin L. in her garden; and the smell of the fresh earth and the touch of green leaves did me good. Mr. T. came and praised my first book, so I felt much inspired to go and do another. I remember him at Scituate years ago, when he was a young shipbuilder and I a curly-haired hoyden of five or six. Up at five, and had a lovely run in the ravine, seeing the woods wake.
“Deserved, well enough,” retorted the shipbuilder. “Dave Pollard and I are well enough satisfied that, if it hadn’t been for you youngsters, and the superb way in which you handled our first boat, Dave and I would still be sitting on the anxious bench in the ante-rooms of the Navy Department at Washington.”
And now, though it still had the tone of a mighty wind roaring among the branches, it was also like a deep bass voice speaking, as distinctly as a tree could be expected to speak, the following words: "Go to Argus, the shipbuilder, and bid him build a galley with fifty oars." Then the voice melted again into the indistinct murmur of the rustling leaves and died gradually away.
They were searching for an island of which they had heard, but which they had never seen. The captain searched the horizon again, but he saw nothing, except that ahead of him, on the sky-line to the S.W., great clouds had gathered. He turned round and went to the master-missionary the hero and explorer and shipbuilder, John Williams, saying: "We must give up the search or we shall all be starved."
"Now, drive straight toward the derelict, Eph!" breathed the young commander, his eyes glittering. "I leave the deck in your hands for a minute. You're broadside on, now. Keep driving, steady, as you are!" As Farnum saw young Benson dashing his way the shipbuilder understood and darted down the stairs. After him plunged Jack Benson.
That's the surest way of forcing Congress to spend more money on our boats." "Where are you going, Jake?" called the inventor, as his partner started aft. "To the stateroom, to get a little nap," replied the shipbuilder. "We're not by any means due at Spruce Beach yet." "Jake Farnum is surely not a coward," chuckled Mr. Pollard, as the stateroom door closed.
But whilst he built the ship for her father, he built a castle in the air for himself, in which he and little Ida sat side by side as man and wife. This might also have happened if his castle had been built of solid stone, with moat and ramparts, wood and gardens. But with all his wisdom the shipbuilder was only a poor bird, and what business has a sparrow in a crane's nest? Whew! whew!
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