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Updated: May 22, 2025
But the packet she carried flew from her hand and disappeared beyond the stringpiece of the pier. The girl uttered a little cry of distress. Drew shot a belligerent glance at the one-eyed man. "What do you want?" he demanded, with truculence. "Isn't the dock broad enough for you to pass without annoying the lady? Get along with you!"
"We're here. And no Black Rover nor anybody else ever done a better piece of steerin' than that, nuther." He clambered over the stringpiece, right at the heels of his impatient but grateful passenger. Sam's thanks were profuse and sincere. "I'll never forget it, Is," he declared. "I'll never forget it. And you'll have to let me pay you the What makes you shake so?"
They found the Quartermaster on a stringpiece immersed to the neck and smoking his pipe, and surrounded him four small, shouting imps, floating barrels with splashing hands and kicking feet. "Gwan, ye little devils!" said the Quartermaster, clutching the stringpiece and looking about in the gloom for a weapon.
There was the usual crowd of loafers waiting for the boat all perched along the stringpiece of the wharf. "But I declare!" thought Janice, her eyes dancing, "somebody certainly has 'slicked 'em up, as Mrs. Scattergood would say. Whoever would believe it! Walky has got a new shirt on and straw cuffs, too and a necktie! My goodness me!
Of these, one was Bill Boughton, the storekeeper, who was to arrange for the disposal of the catch; but the others were either incapacitated, sick, or old. The five aged fishermen, who subsisted on the charity of the town, formed a delegation on one stringpiece to wave the fleet farewell.
A couple of spare oars from below, and as many water-soaked blankets, sufficed to make a jury-mast and sail. When this was in place, Joe cast loose from the wreckage, which was now towing astern, while 'Frisco Kid took the tiller. "How 's that?" cried 'Frisco Kid, as he finished making the Dazzler fast fore and aft, and sat down on the stringpiece of the tiny wharf. "What 'll we do next, captain?"
As an illustration of how materials may become highly heated when forced to move particle on particle, it may be well to cite the case in which the iron stringpiece on top of a wooden dam near Holyoke, Mass., was affected when the barrier went away in a flood.
He fired the carpetbag at the schooner's stern and then spread out his wings and flew after it. His fingers just hooked over the rail and he managed to haul himself aboard. Then he curled up on the deck and breathed short but spirited. The Kanaka woman danced to the stringpiece and whistled distress signals. "Cap'n George Simmons looked down at the wrecked flying machine and grunted.
Still seated upon the stringpiece of the wharf, Swanson so moved that his back was toward the four men. The moment seemed propitious, almost as though it had been prearranged. For with such an audience, for his taking off no other person could be blamed. There would be no question but that death had been self-inflicted.
"I wish we were going off with her maybe to Singapore or Nagasaki," Carl said, slipping his arm through hers, as they balanced on the stringpiece of the wharf, sniffing like deer at the breeze, which for a moment seemed to bear, from distant burgeoning woods, a shadowy hint of burning leaves the perfume of spring and autumn, the eternal wander-call. "Yes!"
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