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Updated: June 11, 2025
Since I crossed the Atlantic, one miserable stowaway was found in a dying state among the fuel, uttered but a word or two, and departed for a farther country than America. When the stowaway appears on deck, he has but one thing to pray for: that he be set to work, which is the price and sign of his forgiveness.
"I have done as much for the other poor fellows who " "I know, I know," broke in the Russian, smiling. "You must not be offend with me if I speak your language so badly." "It strikes me you speak it most acceptably," interposed Percival. "What is your name?" she asked abruptly. "I have heard you called the stowaway. No one has speak your name to me." "My name is Percival," said he.
A seaman, even if a mere passenger, takes an interest in a ship, and looks at the sea-life around him with the critical enjoyment of a painter, for instance, looking at another man's work. In every sense of the expression he is "on deck"; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
I thought of all the usual tricks of disguising her as a man, of smuggling her as a stowaway amidst the cargo, but Grauble's insistence upon the impossibility of such plans had made it all too clear that any such wild attempt would lead to the undoing of us all. If escape were possible with Marguerite ! But cold reason said that escape was improbable enough for me alone.
"Let's make Bruff carry two," said Mark, as soon as the birds were freshly disposed, and hanging a pair pannier fashion over the dog's back, leaving thus a pair apiece, they started, after a vain attempt on the part of the stowaway to obtain permission to carry four.
"Yes, sir; but I couldn't," said the stowaway. "I wanted badly, and tried and tried, but I was much too weak. And that's what made it seem like a dream; for the more I tried to creep out from under the sail, the more I lay still, as if something held me back. And all the time there was a puddle of melted pitch bubbling and running slowly toward me.
These were trying to resuscitate the unfortunate stowaway in a somewhat more humane way than the captain had suggested; for, while the mate opened his collar and shirt and lifted his head on his knee, Tim Rooney sprinkled his face smartly with water from the bucket that had been dipped over the side and filled.
Had he not taken up the precise place he did, he must have been shut in or crushed. "That dog is a stowaway," I observed to the porter who had opened the door. "I suppose he is," the man answered. The dog was making the best of his way to the stairs. How did he recognise the Sloane Square Station, for he had had only those two opportunities of glancing out?
Though what a hospital is, aboard an air-liner, blest if I know!" "Sick-bay, we'll call it. Problems rising already. A stowaway rather odd, I must say. Still, as a problem, it's not hard to solve. Nothing simpler than dropping a man overboard." "You surely, you wouldn't do that!" ejaculated the major, startled. His rubicund face grew round with amazement. "That remains to be seen.
And after a moment's pause he added, "They call me Dennis O'Moore. What's your name, ye enterprising little stowaway?" I told him. "And where were you going in your boat, and how did you get upset?" I asked. He sighed. "It was the old hooker we started in, bad luck to her!" "Is that the name of the boat you were holding on to?" "That boat? No!
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