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"Would you feel so complacent if it were you?" she asked slyly, with a flash of merry eyes. We happened to be in the shadow of the smokestack. After the interlude I expounded my philosophy more at length. "He's young yet at least his heart is. A man has to love a nice girl or two before he is educated to know the right one when he meets her. I don't pity Yeager not a great deal, anyhow.
It was in February, 1864, that an inventive genius in the beleaguered city brought out a steam torpedo-boat. The craft was about twenty-five feet long, shaped like a cigar, built of boiler iron, and propelled by a screw. She had no smokestack, and her deck barely rose above the surface of the water.
At three o'clock a Staten Island ferry-boat ventured her nose out of her slip. The wind snapped off both flag-staffs and smokestack, hurled them into space, caught her in its mighty claws, dragged her helpless across the bay and flung her on the Staten Island shore. Wherever men could gather they talked in low, helpless and bewildered tones.
I remember labouring in a fourteen days' gale off the coast of New Zealand. We were a tramp collier, rusty and battered, with six thousand tons of coal in our hold. Life lines were stretched fore and aft; and on our weather side, attached to smokestack guys and rigging, were huge rope-nettings, hung there for the purpose of breaking the force of the seas and so saving our mess-room doors.
When Lawry and Ethan returned to the Goblins in the afternoon, they were delighted to find that the casks, all of which had been placed under the guards abaft the wheel, had actually produced an effect upon the steamer. The smokestack stood up more perpendicularly, indicating that the stern had been lifted from the bottom.
They left the house, and went down to the ferry. The Woodville certainly was not where they had left her; not even the top of her smokestack could be seen peering above the water to inform them that she still existed. "Well, Lawry, we may as well go out to the place where we left her. If she has sunk, we may be able to see her," said Ethan. They got into the boat; but one of the oars was gone.
There had been heavy rains that spring on the prairie, and trees came jouncing down the muddy flood of the Red River. The little International, like a panicky bicycle rider, steered straight for every tree, and hit one with such impact that her smokestack came toppling down.
He could hardly repress the rapture he felt when he saw the black smoke from the pine wood pouring out of the smokestack. "This is my steamer," said he to himself. "I am the owner of her." The thought made him laugh with joy.
See the fountain of sparks from the tug's smokestack. What a sight it is to see those sails going up. I wonder where she's headed for." "Look at the man away up there in the top," cried Jack. "And there goes another up the main rigging," put in Tom. "The sails go up slowly somehow. I guess she's short handed." "Maybe she's like many another vessel that my father has told me about," offered Frank.
Howbeit, I clambered aboard, and ducking under a guy rope and avoiding sundry other obstructions, shook hands with her commander, young, clear-eyed and cheery of mien, who presently led me past a stumpy smokestack and up a perpendicular ladder to the bridge where, beneath a somewhat flimsy-looking structure, was the wheel, brass-bound and highly be-polished like all else about this crowded craft as, notably, the binnacle and certain brass-bound dials, on the faces whereof one might read such words as: Ahead, Astern, Fast, Slow, etc.
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