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And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.
So eager had the competition become that there was a tailoring establishment and a bank that were never closed the year round, except on Sunday. Everywhere about one's feet the nets of vice were spread. The head waiter in one's hotel was a "steerer" for a "dive," and the house detective was "touting" for a gambling-place.
You might have added that I was nothing more than a steerer for a gambling hell." "Oh, come, Prince!" There was a knock at the door. A footman entered, bearing, with a detached air, as if he disclaimed all responsibility, a letter on a silver tray. Mr. Scobell slit the envelope, and began to read.
"Oh! no, he didn't," said all three boys together; "he stuck fast to the double ripper; we ran into a tree, and Dick was pitched off head-first." "But honestly and truly, father," said Jasper, "I do not think that it was the fault of the steerer." "Indeed it was not," declared Ben stoutly; "there was an ugly little gully that we hadn't seen under the snow.
It makes a good deal of difference, I notice, whether a person gets a better thing than they order or not. But the drug business is too lively for me. I have got to have a quiet place, and I guess I will be a cash boy in a store. Pa says he thinks I was cut out for a bunko steerer, and I may look for that kind of a job. Pa he is a terror since he got to drinking again.
The oars were one on each side of the stern, and were each managed by a steerer.
In less than a minute after the people had come on deck half dressed, the boats started away with six men in each, including the headsman and boat's steerer. The captain went as headsman in one, and the first mate in the other. The water bubbled and hissed under the bows of the boats, as the eager crews urged them forward. "I wish I had gone in one," cried Tom.
What in thunder has got into me, anyway? How'd he git me on to that line? Say, what a bunco steerer he'd make! And with that face and them eyes of his! No, 'taint that. It's his blank honest talk. Hang if I know what it is, but he's got it! He's white, I swear! But blank him! he makes a fellow feel like a thief."
It was paddled by two Indians, of whom the one in the stern the steerer appeared to be a very large man. I could see this very plainly; and though the second canoe was much nearer the island than the first, I judged that they were both on their way home to the Government Reservation, which was situated some fifteen miles away upon the mainland.
You can see that from the length of the claws, and the length of the tail, which acts as a steerer, a balancing-pole, and a brake. You see when it brings the tail down ?" "No, I don't; but I do see that we are in a fix, and that the others must be in a worse position." "I cannot imagine Mr. Hume being caught in a trap, especially when he has the jackal." "And Muata!" "And the black chap!"
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