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Updated: June 2, 2025
In the darkness of night it would be an easy trick to disconnect the steering-gear from the short tiller on the rudder-head, and then, by re-rigging the preventer tackles, steer from both sides of the poop well enough for'ard to be out of the range of the ventilator.
Hillyard could never pass that great black ship in those neutral waters without a hope that his steering-gear would just at this moment play him false and swing his bows at full speed on to her side. The Dragonfly ran past her to the arm of the great mole and was moored with her stern to the quay.
Its steering-gear was pretty dicky, and the bad surface and continual hairpin bends of the road didn't improve it. Soon we came into snow lying fairly deep, frozen hard and rutted by the big transport-wagons. We bumped and bounced horribly, and were shaken about like peas in a bladder.
We've GOT to do something, I tell you, and do it before he wakes up, too, or we mayn't ever get another chance. Come!" But it made us turn cold and creepy just to think of it, and we said we wouldn't budge. So Tom was for slipping back there by himself to see if he couldn't get at the steering-gear and land the ship.
It held me dumb for a time. When the tormenting sensation had passed off I asked: "Do you feel strong enough to prevent the rudder taking charge if she gets sternway on her? It wouldn't do to get something smashed about the steering-gear now. We've enough difficulties to cope with as it is." He answered with just a shade of weariness that he was strong enough to hang on.
The steering-gear did not seem to do its work properly, and the captain anxiously kept his eyes fixed on the horizon, as they were drawn irresistibly nearer and nearer to the harbour. "It is the men-of-war I dread coming near," the captain was saying to his mates; "those deadly rams are a terror in this weather." It was a critical moment.
"We want a dog!" had been a kind of family cry until Babe's last birthday. Some six months before that birthday Babe came to me and said: "Father, will you guess what I want for my birthday?" "A new pair of skates with a key fore and aft," I replied. "Skates in August!" he shouted in derision. "Try again." "A fast-flyer sled with automatic steering-gear and an electric self-starter and stopper."
The waves, too, in this inland sea, were not the great rollers the great kindly giants of our Atlantic gales, but shorter and more vicious in impact: and, under Heaven, our only hope against them hung by the two ropes of Billy's jury steering-gear. They served us nobly.
The electric pinnace went off as he spoke, her steam-engines, steering-gear, and all the other apparatus being regulated by electric wires, which were "paid out" from the ship as the boat proceeded on her mission of supposed extreme danger.
"We could not think of disobeying!" returned Gaspard. "She is a strange woman!" and as he spoke Rivardi gripped his steering-gear with a kind of vindictive force "It seems absurd that we, two men of fair intelligence and scientific attainment, should be ruled by her whim, her fancies for after all she is made up of fancies " Gaspard shook his finger warningly.
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