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We had a perfect love of a sounding-boat long, trim, graceful, and as fleet as a greyhound; her thwarts were cushioned; she carried twelve oarsmen; one of the mates was always sent in her to transmit orders to her crew, for ours was a steamer where no end of 'style' was put on. We tied up at the shore above 21, and got ready.
'Ain't you glad YOU don't have to go out sounding? Tom was passing on, but he quickly turned, and said 'Now just for that, you can go and get the sounding-pole yourself. I was going after it, but I'd see you in Halifax, now, before I'd do it. 'Who wants you to get it? I don't. It's in the sounding-boat. 'It ain't, either.
My chief said that after laying the buoy he fell away and watched it till it seemed to be secure; then he took up a position a hundred yards below it and a little to one side of the steamer's course, headed the sounding-boat up-stream, and waited.
Thornburg exclaimed 'There! the paddle-wheel has ground the sounding-boat to lucifer matches! Run! See who is killed! I was on the main deck in the twinkling of an eye. My chief and the third mate and nearly all the men were safe.
I looked over, and there was the gallant sounding-boat booming away, the unprincipled Tom presiding at the tiller, and my chief sitting by him with the sounding-pole which I had been sent on a fool's errand to fetch. Then that young girl said to me 'Oh, how awful to have to go out in that little boat on such a night! Do you think there is any danger? I would rather have been stabbed.
We had a perfect love of a sounding-boat long, trim, graceful, and as fleet as a greyhound; her thwarts were cushioned; she carried twelve oarsmen; one of the mates was always sent in her to transmit orders to her crew, for ours was a steamer where no end of 'style' was put on. We tied up at the shore above 21, and got ready.
I looked over, and there was the gallant sounding-boat booming away, the unprincipled Tom presiding at the tiller, and my chief sitting by him with the sounding-pole which I had been sent on a fool's errand to fetch. Then that young girl said to me 'Oh, how awful to have to go out in that little boat on such a night! Do you think there is any danger? I would rather have been stabbed.
No matter, it is safest to run over it anyhow. So, in that solid world of darkness we went creeping down on the light. Just as our bows were in the act of plowing over it, Mr. Thornburg seized the bell-ropes, rang a startling peal, and exclaimed 'My soul, it's the sounding-boat! A sudden chorus of wild alarms burst out far below a pause and then the sound of grinding and crashing followed. Mr.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen." The sounding-boat pulled away, and the Judge retired to his stateroom. The ladies, with very pale faces, gathered in a group and whispered earnestly with each other; then ensued visits to each other's staterooms, and the final regathering of the ladies with two or three bundles.
My chief said that after laying the buoy he fell away and watched it till it seemed to be secure; then he took up a position a hundred yards below it and a little to one side of the steamer's course, headed the sounding-boat up-stream, and waited.
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