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"I wish I had asked a lot about her," Janet whispered, and there was a mist in her eyes; "I have been careless just because I've been happy. It seems as if we had sort of pushed her away, and kept her still." "Well, it's her turn t' speak now, girl, an' that's what I've been steerin' round t'. Ye're hers an' " "And yours, Cap'n Billy, even if you have taught me to say Captain, instead of Father."
Kim f'm S'loois. But still, I got that feelin' abaout Italy. Simlike I'd be oh, sorta at home tha'. Had that same feelin' ev' since Unc' Bernique begand to tell me abaout Italy. I'm a-goin' tha', tew, some day, all righty," he concluded at last, waking up from his little dream slowly. "Goin' to be long over to Poetical, Mist' Steerin'?" he diverged again, with his lively mental agility. "No, son.
"Perhaps it is a bit strange, seein' two of 'em out here so close together, and both of 'em steerin' exactly the same course. Yes, and, by George, now I comes to look at 'em through the glass, I sees that they are both of 'em armed this here nearest one mounts eight barkers of a side, and I'll be hanged if I don't believe her people are a- trainin' of 'em upon us! Yes; dash me if they ain't!
"'Go for'ard there and light them lights! I yelled, hangin' to the steerin' oar and keepin' the ark runnin' afore the wind. "'I won't! he says, loud and emphatic. 'Think I'm a blame fool? I sure would be a jack rabbit to climb over them seats the way they're buckin' and light them lamps. You're talkin' through your hat!
Yis, I sartinly want ye to see where ye be goin' on this trip, anyhow, fur the crew be a fresh un, and the channel be a leetle crooked. But be ye sartin, Bill, that ye can fetch round that stump there as it orter be did, with nothin' but yer toe out behind? It may be the best way, as ye say, but it don't look like honest steerin' to a man of my years."
Wouldn't 'a'ketched me steerin' this course of my own free will 'n' foreknowledge. Jest look at the land now. Don't it look like the bottomless pit blowed up 'n' gone to smash? Tell ye, 'f the Old Boy himself sh'd ride up alongside, shouldn't be a mite s'prised to see him. Sh'd reckon he had a much bigger right to be s'prised to ketch me here."
"'Nd still I kep' sly: they hadn't nobody the least idee o' what port I was steerin' for. I tried four or five jest in the same way, but they hadn't moderation enough o' dispersition, ye see, to set deown beforehand and have a calm previous wrarstlin' o' the spirit along o' them codfish bones.
"I don't know where we're bound for," growled the skipper slowly. "Starboard a bit; stiddy!" "Steady!" sang out the man at the tiller. A few hours carried them into the German Ocean. Here Quin thought he would try again for a little information. "Sure it's nor'-east we're steerin', captain," he remarked in a casual way.
"Have 'e any notion what course we're steerin'?" inquired Bill. "None wotsomediver," answered Ben. Soon after that, however, the sky cleared a little, and Bill got sight of part of the constellation of the Great Bear. Although the pole-star was not visible, he guessed pretty nearly its position, and thus ascertained that the breeze came from the south-west.
"Good-morning, gentlemen," said he. "It seems kinder good to see a human face again. It ain't very populous round here, is it?" "We haven't seen any large towns," said Tom, smiling. "Where are you steerin'?" inquired the Yankee. "I'm expectin' to fetch up at San Francisco some time, if I don't get lost in the woods." "That is our destination, my friend," returned Ferguson.
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