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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.
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.
As Gadabout slowly moved along, she occasionally got out of the channel into the shallows, in spite of chart and sounding-pole; and more than once she struck bottom. But she always discovered the channel and scrabbled back into it before the soft mud, even aided by the falling tide, could get a good hold of her. No, not quite always was she so fortunate.
The routine of advance was to place a man with a sounding-pole at the bow, while Robinson, the pilot, had his post on the deck of the cabin, but the sounding was more for record purposes than to assist Robinson, who was usually able to predict exactly when the water would shoal or deepen.
It was then well on in the afternoon, the face of the forest was gloomy, and a broad strip of shadow had already fallen on the water. In this shadow we steamed up very slowly, as you may imagine. I sheered her well inshore the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding-pole informed me. "One of my hungry and forbearing friends was sounding in the bows just below me.
That's what's linin' the gold basins o' the North linin' Idaho Bar thick." The Captain sighed. "Twelve," a voice sang out on the lower deck. "Twelve," repeated the Captain. "Twelve," echoed the pilot at the wheel. "Twelve and a half," from the man below, a tall, lean fellow, casting the sounding-pole.
'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.
The deck-hands got down to two feet and a half. When Hop said two feet, Cornwood rang to back her. This was the draft of the boat aft. One of the flat-boats which were stowed away aft, and which we had had no occasion to use before, was put into the water, and with Buck I went ahead, with a sounding-pole in my hand.
Here there was a little pause for three of us while Ephraim Yeates crept down the bank to try with his sounding-pole what chance we had of crossing. Measured by what could be seen from our covert, the narrow width of quick water seemed the last of the many obstacles.
'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.
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