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Updated: June 12, 2025
The next person is but hark! the bell for shore is ringing, and, shaking Snook's hand cordially, we rush on to the pier, waving him a farewell as the noble black ship cuts keenly through the sunny azure waters, bearing away that cargo of Snobs outward bound.
She and Ruth carried their "cousin" out of the burning barn which was then allowed to fall to ruins. Or rather, the extra part, built on for the purpose, was, Pop Snook's smoke bombs effectually concealing from the audience the fact that the real barn was not in the least harmed.
Save an Eskimo settlement of half a dozen huts near Fort Pelican and the families of Lem Horn and Jerry Snook, the country lying between The Jug and Fort Pelican was uninhabited. It was unlikely that evening would find the travellers in the vicinity of either Horn's or Snook's cabins, and therefore it was to be a camping trip, which was quite to the liking of the boys.
It is true that a man I know, an enthusiastic amateur in astronomy, dubbed a lot of holes and corners in the moon after his private friends and acquaintances, myself amongst them: 'Snook's Crater, 'Smith's Bottom, 'Tiddler's Cove, and so on; but I regret to say the authorities declined to sanction his nomenclature."
The animal ran out into the moonlight, stood a moment looking at Uncle Daniel with the gun, and then gave more barks. It was as if he said he did not like to be chased away in that fashion. "Well, it's a good thing I didn't shoot him," said Uncle Daniel as he came back into the house. "Whose dog was it?" asked his wife. "Snook's big black one.
James's Street, having the privilege, like the rest of the world, of looking in at the windows of 'Blight's, or 'Foodle's, or 'Snook's, or the great bay at the 'Contemplative Club, I behold with respectful appreciation the figures within the honest rosy old fogies, the mouldy old dandies, the waist-belts and glossy wigs and tight cravats of those most vacuous and respectable men.
With the uncertainty of wind and tide the boat journey to Fort Pelican usually consumed three days, and with equal time required for return, the voyage could seldom be accomplished in less than six days. Lem Horn and his family lived at Horn's Bight, thirty miles from The Jug, and fifteen miles beyond, at Caribou Arm, was Jerry Snook's cabin.
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