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"I make no manner o' doubt you're right, lad, but I've got my sea-legs on now, so to speak; leastwise I've got used to ridin' in the trip out here, as well as used to steerin' wi' the tiller-ropes in front, which seems to me right in the teeth o' natur', though I couldn't see how it could well be otherwise.
Did he not, without hesitation, drive them mercilessly through black night and raging blizzard to bring a freezing stranger to the hospital a man whose one chance lay in skilled care? It was no great thing in Pete's sight a simple episode of the North. The man was in dire need, he himself was strong, and his dogs would go through anything with Pete "at the steerin' gear" and so a life was saved.
Phineas's chin came up. "Run it!" he scoffed. "Well, I hain't had no trouble yet steerin' a hoss, an' I cal'late I won't have any more steerin' a mess o' senseless metal what hain't got no eyes ter be seein' things an' gittin' scared! I don't worry none 'bout runnin' it." "But, Phineas, it ain't all steerin'," ventured Diantha, timidly.
She's steerin' pretty much the same way as ourselves, by the look of her." "Very well, that'll do. Look alive with that royal halyard there. We don't want the commodore to signal, askin' us how long we're goin' to take over the job." "I'll have all ready to sway away in less than a minute, sir; it's been rather a awk'ard job," answered the man.
Honest, I don't believe he knew whether he was eatin' dinner or steerin' an airship. I caught him once tryin' to butter an olive with a bread stick, and he sopped up a pink cocktail without even lookin' at it. The same thing happened to the one Vee pushed over near his absent-minded hand. And the deeper he got into the dinner the livelier grew the twinkle in them mild eyes of his.
Did you mean you'd been through the Park?" "Once long ago," replied Wade, staring with his great, cavernous eyes into space. Some memory of Middle Park haunted him. "Wal, then, I won't be steerin' you wrong," said the innkeeper. "I like thet country. Some people don't. An' I say if you can cook or pack or punch cows or 'most anythin' you'll find a bunk with Old Bill.
Oh, yes, I could see land and cal'lated we was goin' to bump. Well, we did. Steerin' anyways but dead ahead was out of the question, and all I could do was set my teeth and trust in my bein' a member of the church. The Shootin' Star hit that beach like she was the real article. Overboard went oar and canvas and grub pails, and everything else that wa'n't nailed down, includin' Fatty and me.
'Ang it, I must pipe all hands, an' take in sail. Where the deevil are ye steerin' to? Be jabers, yez may laugh, young gentlemen, but this ain't a fair weather craft, I tell yez. Thunder an' guns! it be as much as I can do to keep her to her course. Hullo! she's off afore the wind!"
"Dat's right, an' now I want ter git square wid him fer steerin' me up agin' anyt'ing of der sort. Wot yer goin' ter do wid him break his neck?" "I have not decided what I shall do, but I shall not lay a hand on him." "Yer won't?" "No." "Well, I would if I was in your place. I'd t'ump der everlastin' stuffin' outer der bloke dat's wot!"
"Yes, sir," she replied. "I knew you was at the meeting and so I brought it from the office. Ain't you glad?" "Sure! Yes, indeed! Much obliged. Tryin' to keep house without you would be like steerin' without a rudder." Even as he said it there came to him the realization that he might have to steer without that rudder in the near future. His smile vanished.
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